Ingrid Laubrock

Ingrid Laubrock is a German saxophonist and composer working in avant-garde and free jazz, born in Stadtlohn in 1970. She plays mainly tenor saxophone, and also soprano. She moved to London in 1989 and later to New York, and has since recorded a long series of albums for the Swiss label Intakt, many of them with drummer Tom Rainey, her husband. Laubrock studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with Dave Liebman, joined London's F-IRE Collective and debuted on Candid with Who Is It?.