“Grammy Season” brings together some of the leading voices in American jazz around Ingrid Laubrock; more specifically, the vibrant Brooklyn scene, where musical genres intersect and intermingle. The saxophonist, who hails from Germany and has lived in New York since 2008, has steadily expanded her scope over the past decade and found new ways to inspire, organize, and contextualize improvised music. She is active as a composer in her many projects, moving nimbly between the structured and the spontaneous. There are harmonically and rhythmically structured elements, free improvisation, chamber music—and even orchestral passages. Many contrasts, from fiery, explosive moments to rock-inspired passages. “It’s always fun to see what the other musicians come up with,” Laubrock says, describing the way her latest band works. “Like, how do they connect the puzzle pieces and how do they do it differently each time out?” "There are plenty of individual contributions on Spirit, Fire, Fact, Laubrock’s eleventh album as a leader for Intakt. Indeed, no member is shy when it comes to speaking their mind. But this new program of emotional shifts and textural transformations has as much to do with conceiving the puzzle as supplying its elements", writes Jim Macie in the liner notes. 

Art and Design: Stephen Byram
Booklet Design: Fiona Ryan
Liner notes: Jim Macnie
Photos: Elisa Gabrielle

All compositions © Ingrid Laubrock PRS MCPS.
Recorded December 17-19, 2025 at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT, by Greg Dicrosta. Edited by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, MT. Vernn, NY. Mixed by Owen Mulholland at Big Sound NYC. Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Art and Design: Stephen Byram. Booklet Design: Fiona Ryan. Liner notes: Jim Macnie. Photos: Elisa Gabrielle. Recording produced by David Breskin and Ingrid Laubrock. CD Produced by Ingrid Laubrock and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records. Intakt Records, P.O. BOX 8024 Zürich, Switzerland.