Search - Ingrid Jensen :: Here on Earth

An overlooked gem

Michael St John | St. Paul, MN | 09/19/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's just too bad that a set of music like this can't get the promotion and exposure it would enjoy from a major label, because it really holds up even when set next to any classic reissues put out by a label like Blue Note. (Play this before or after putting on Wayne Shorter's SPEAK NO EVIL, for instance.) Like the best albums on Blue Note in the '60s, Ingrid plays a kind of mainstream post-bop that dares to take some chances. Her arrangements are fresh--check out the vocal treatment of Bill Evans' "Time Remembered" featuring singer Jill Seifers; or the take of "Time of the Barracudas," which I rank right up there with Shorter's own recording on his ETC. album. And the original compositions are as interesting as the covers, while the band is just fantastic as well. Gary Bartz delivers the fireworks you'd expect, but pianist George Colligan is a pleasant new discovery (for me), and Ingrid herself shows she can do it all. She has a beautiful tone on both trumpet and flugelhorn, and handles the hard-driving jams and pretty ballads with equal aplomb. If you haven't heard her play before, you'll really do yourself a favor by giving this disc a chance."

Working, cooking

S. Foster | Los Angeles, CA USA | 01/31/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The horn is working, cooking, cool guest vocals by Jill Seifert (no CDS available), straight ahead solos, clean, bright, hard, hard working, home cooking, clear, with the heat coming up from below, and like the fortune cookie said, "You will get something new within a week," if you get it, get it while you can, the Canadian's making good on it."