“Kind of New”

JASON MILES & INGRID JENSEN 

“Kind of New”

@ The Blue Note, 131 W 3rd St., NY, Monday July 13, 2015

Grammy Award-winning producer/keyboardist Jason Miles and acclaimed trumpeter Ingrid Jensen celebrate their superb Whaling City Sound Records debut recording.

Jason Miles , keyboards 
Ingrid Jensen , trumpet, effects
Jay Rodriguez , saxophones 
Fima Ephron , electric bass
Mike Clark , drums

"Ingrid plays trumpet and flugelhorn with all the brilliance and fire of a true virtuoso, following the spirit of the muse as she creates. Warm,sensitive, exciting and totally honest." - Marian McPartland

“Jason Miles has raised the level of excellence for the musicians who have had the good fortune of working with him, myself included. The work he did with my friends, Miles Davis and Marcus Miller have helped to define the modern face of jazz music.” - Roberta Flack

Rave Reviews:
“Kind Of New is a superb album s uffused with the sound and spirit of Miles Davis. But this is no pastiche – producer/keyboardist Jason Miles and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen stamp their own voices on an array of melodies, harmonies and rhythms, that hit both the head and the heart. Even today, people ask: ‘I wonder what Miles would be doing now?’ We’ll never know of course, but there’s a good chance that he would be making music like this.” - George Cole, author of The Last Miles – the music of Miles Davis 1980-1991

“Jason works the Fender Rhodes and organ for maximum texture behind a piercing Jensen while a funky electric bass and power drums are joined by a range of horns and percussion support. A new chapter in fusion's evolution .”
- Marc Meyers, Jazzwax.com

“Jensen’s horn runs the gamut as Miles’ electric backdrops and the tidy band gamely shift gears and switch colors like dressers: she jaunts a self-conscious, careful runway strut on “Faction of Cool”; nails carefully scripted hits on “Super City”; and gets comfy in the blues-drenched vernacular of “Shirley” (for singer Horn).” - Fred Bouchard - The New York City Jazz Record

“The album title is a play on Miles Davis‘ immortal Kind of Blue, but it’s not hubris for this team to reference the master; Jason Miles was Davis’ keyboard player for several years. This delightful disc features Ingrid Jensen on trumpet, and while the tracks occasionally evoke memories of Davis’ Jack Johnson period, the groove and melodies are rooted in a more accessible foundation. Mellow but never, ever falling into the tepid “smooth jazz” trap, K ind of New works equally as well as rewarding subject of active listening as it would for groovy background music for your next cocktail party.” - Musoscribe

“Miles Davis fusing elements of rock and funk into his music was nothing short of revolutionary and people still get into heated debates over the quality of the music that Davis released during this period. But just as people overlook Maggot Brain when discussing P-Funk, this free flowing brand of jazz/funk/rock fusion sometimes gets excised from the contemporary jazz canon. So the conscious effort that Jason Miles and Ingrid Jensen make to rehabilitate it on K ind of New is definitely welcome. Solidly Recommended .” - Howard Dukes, Soul Tracks

“Miles and Jensen hit it far out of the park” - Chris Spector, Midwest Record Review

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A new album featuring Ingrid Jensen, Steve Treseler, Geoffrey Keezer, Martin Wind, and Jon Wikan

Photo by Jim Levitt, drawing by Angela Sande

march 12, 2015

We had an exhilarating week in Seattle recording at Robert Lang Studios and playing two packed shows at The Royal Room! A crew from NPR's Jazz Night In America flew out to film and record the shows for a national broadcast and webcast later this spring. Jim Wilke featured the live performances on Jazz Northwest this week, you can listen to the podcast here. 

We captured some great music in the studio and can't wait to share it with all of you. We are close to reaching our fundraising goal to finish this record. Your contributions will go toward paying our stellar band, studio fees. mixing and mastering. Thank you for helping us honor and celebrate Kenny's life and legacy of music.

Peace and gratitude, Steve and Ingrid

We launched this project to honor and celebrate the life, legacy, and music of the great jazz trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler who left us last year. His stunning compositions and imaginative improvisations have left deep impressions on generations of musicians and listeners. This project is led by Seattle-based saxophonist Steve Treseler and NYC-based trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. Read Ingrid's tribute to Kenny on Ethan Iverson's blog "Do the Math."

For those of you who would like an introduction to Kenny's music, his most critically acclaimed albums on ECM are among his best:

• Gnu High, featuring Keith Jarrett (his last record as a sideman), Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette
• Music for Large and Small Ensembles, featuring his brilliant large ensemble writing
  
• Angel Song, featuring Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Dave Holland

We will be recording with a stellar band:

• Ingrid Jensen - trumpet
• Steve Treseler - tenor saxophone
• Katie Jacobson - voice
• Geoffrey Keezer - piano
• Martin Wind - bass
• Jon Wikan - drums

read more: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-musical-tribute-to-kenny-wheeler

A Way of Expression: The Music of Ingrid Jensen

This summer, trumpet player Ingrid Jensen returns to Jazz Port Townsend. In addition to her widely anticipated class offerings, Jensen will be giving a mainstage performance on Friday, July 30, at 7:30 pm.

Ingrid plays trumpet and flugelhorn with all the brilliance and fire of a true virtuoso

"Ingrid plays trumpet and flugelhorn with all the brilliance and fire of a true virtuoso, following the spirit of the muse as she creates… …warm,sensitive, exciting and totally honest….." Marian McPartland

Born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, Canada, Ingrid headed east after receiving a number of scholarships to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since graduating in 1989, her life has contained a whirlwind of musical activities. From her early days playing in the subways of New York, to establishing herself as a leader and soloist in a wide array of musical genres, Ingrid has made her mark. Her three CD's for the ENJA label and her latest CD, At Sea, won her nominations from the Canadian Juno Awards, including an award in 1995 for Vernal Fields.

Her performances as a leader and as a featured soloist have taken her around the world from Canada to Japan, Australia, South America, the Caribbean and to almost every country in Europe and Scandinavia.

Jensen can be heard with the Grammy winning Maria Schneider Orchestra, the IJQ with Geoffrey Keezer, Project O, Nordic Connect and a number of New York-based bands. She has received rave reviews and a strong reputation among critics and peers. In 2003 she was nominated, for the second time, alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas for a Jazz Journalist Association Award in New York and is seen yearly in the top five of the Downbeat Critic polls in the Talent deserving wider recognition category. Photo > Lindsay Beyerstein

Ingrid was featured on Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, under the direction of Maria Schneider and was also a guest in the festival's "Tribute to Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard", alongside Terence Blanchard, Eddie Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson and Kenny Garrett. Some of the many musicians she has performed and or recorded with include; Steve Wilson, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Dr.Lonnie Smith, Marc Copland, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, Jeff Hamilton, Bill Stewart, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, Dr.Billy Taylor and the DIVA Big Band. She also performed on SNL with the British soul star, Corrine Bailey Rae.

Ingrid has been on staff at the Port Townsend Centrum Jazz Workshop for the past five years and from 1990 until 1992 held the professor of Jazz Trumpet chair at the Bruckner Conservatory of Music. Jensen continues to fill her schedule with an astonishing array of artistic creativity as a performer and educator. In addition to performing, she conducts master classes, clinics, and workshops around the world.

Ingrid is featured on Canadian Bravo Arts and Minds