Ingrid Laubrock - ubatuba

2015 CD release.

Besides the leader (as,ts), Ubatuba features a hand picked group of musicians such as alto saxophonist Tim Berne, trombonist Ben Gerstein, tuba player Dan Peck and drummer Tom Rainey. The release features all original compositions by Laubrock.

Laubrock writes in the liner notes, "from the beginning, I have always relied on the piano for composing.When conceiving this record, I decided to try a different approach and compose either using the saxophone or pencil and paper only. The result is polyphonic, linear and occasionally like a big living organism waltzing over the listener. In this music I was looking for balance and polarity, density and space, rhythm and looseness, notes between notes and variety of color.There is much detail in the writing but often with improvisational layers on top to blur the lines and leave the listener guessing. My compositional process tends to bear the particular musicians' strengths and characters in mind and Tim, Tom, Dan and Ben are masterfully inventive musicians who came up with great and imaginative ways of bringing my music to live."