I will be attending the 7:00 show of pianist Jason Moran and Band Wagon – Tarus Mateen (b) and Nasheet Waits (d) with guest Ingrid Laubrock on reeds. The concert will be at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Their project is entitled Black Stars, which is also the name of Mr. Moran’s Blue Note CD, released on 9/11/2001 http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-stars-mw0000013677. Mr. Moran was appointed Artistic Advisor for Jazz for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in November 2011 and given the title of Artistic Director for Jazz in May 2014 http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/A4757.
During this past Thursday’s Morning Brew – Classic Jazz Edition, I previewed this concert by playing Big News/New News by Jason Moran and Bandwagon from their
Thanksgiving at the Vanguard CD on Yes Records and the title tune from the album Paradoxical Frog by Kris Davis (p), Ingrid Laubrock (ts), and Tayshawn Sorey (d) on Clean Feed https://www.allmusic.com/album/paradoxical-frog-mw0002022546.
Ms. Laubrock is a German-born tenor and soprano saxophonist currently residing in NYC since 2009. She has worked with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others. Her awards include the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004, a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, the 2014 German Record Critics Quarterly Award, Downbeat Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015) , Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019. Learn more on her website: http://www.ingridlaubrock.com/
A short Reeview will follow next week. As they say in radio, “Stay tuned.”
