The groundbreaking vocalist/composer/
“Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader,
“Sara Serpa is a vocalist wielding an instrument as favourably unadorned and pure as any in jazz… literally, she sounds as if she must sing whenever she speaks.” – Phil DiPietro, All About Jazz
Album Release Concert December 9 at Roulette, NYC
release date: 06.12.2024 via Tour De Bras
Even though their name may conjure up images of chesterfields erupting into flames, the Québec duo Brûlez les meubles (Burn The Furniture, in English) has been mining an atmospheric corner of avant-jazz since their 2016 debut, always alongside an illustrious cast of guest artists. On Folio #5, the group’s founders Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière and Éric Normand continue this tradition, inviting legendary improvisers Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone) and Marianne Trudel (piano) into the fray, alongside rising-star percussionist Jonathan Huard on vibraphone.
Pyroclastic Records presents Sculpting Sound, a groundbreaking collection of six once-in-a-lifetime performances bringing together twelve master improvisers with the sound sculptures of visionary artist Harry Bertoia
These captivating performances, available on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 via SculptingSound.org, feature Nels Cline, Ben Monder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, JD Allen, Jen Shyu, Brandon Seabrook, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Kris Davis and Craig Taborn
release date: 31.03.2023 via Pyroclastic Records
Saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock fuses experimental jazz ensemble, avant-rock group, and altered string quartet in one electrifying sextet on her striking new album.
“Laubrock possesses one of the most fetchingly original free-improv styles out there–throaty, gutsy, bravely lyrical–but recently, her composing and arranging have proven as engaging as her soloing.” – Paul de Barros, DownBeat
“As a bandleader, the wildly inventive soprano and tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock shepherds… category-defying projects with a bent toward unconventional instrumentation and disparate style-shifting.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes
release date: 02.12.2022 via Pyroclastic Records
Grammy winning pianist and composerCory Smythe explores the climate crisis through an abstracted American songbook classic on his new album Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,
The album features vocalist Sofia Jernberg, violinist Joshua Modney, cellist Tomeka Reid, trumpeter Peter Evans, trombonist Zekkereya El-magharbel, saxophonists Ryan Muncy, Ingrid Laubrock, and David Leon, drummer/percussionist Jessie Cox, bassist Stephan Crump, and Smythe on piano.
“The sonic language that Cory Smythe has brought to his own recordings as leader, and to his work as a collaborator and sideman, blurs any lines… Expansive sound, cutting-edge vision.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes
“For over a decade, Mr. Smythe has been one of the busiest players on the new-music and avant-jazz scenes… But even when the music is the headiest modernism, his performances retain a sense of playfulness.” – Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times
