The Jazz Gallery: Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm

Ingrid Laubrock –saxophones
Dave Adewumi –trumpet
Adam Matlock –accordion/voice
Yvonne Rogers –piano
Eva Lawitts –double bass/voice
Henry Mermer –drums

The musicians in Lilith are all part of the next cutting-edge generation of predominately NYC based creative musicians. Lilith is a biblical reference to Adam’s first wife, who, unlike Eve was formed at the same time and out of the same clay as Adam. There are many myths surrounding Lilith, but all have one thing in common: she is not subservient, but powerful and feared. At a time where women’s rights are in danger of being stripped, reverted or simply don’t exist it seems to be fitting to celebrate a strong and inconvenient woman.

Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer, interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Center’s artistic director Jason Moran, and a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by the New Yorker.She worked with: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Wet Ink and many others.Awards include a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019. Ingrid Laubrock has received composing commissions by The Fromm Music Foundation, Yarn Wire, BBC Glasgow Symphony orchestra, Bang on The Can, Grossman Ensemble, The Shifting Foundation, The Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, The Jerwood Foundation, American Composers Orchestra, Tricentric Foundation, SWR New Jazz Meeting, The Jazz Gallery Commissioning Series, NYSCA, Wet Ink, John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series and the EOS Orchestra.