Ingrid Jensen - Higher Grounds (1999)

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Artist: Ingrid Jensen
Title: Higher Grounds
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Enja [ENJ-9353 2]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 58:21
Total Size: 439 MB(+3%) | 138 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Seventh Avenue (Lewis) - 8:12
02. Juriki (Kikoski) - 5:14
03. Higher Grounds (Jensen) - 5:46
04. Litha (Corea) - 9:30
05. Longing (Nash) - 5:17
06. Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (Walton) - 4:40
07. I Fall in Love Too Easily (Styne) - 7:25
08. Dear John (Hubbard) - 4:04
09. Land of Me (Olin) - 8:13

personnel :

Ingrid Jensen - trumpet, flugelhorn
Gary Thomas - tenor saxophone, flute
David Kikoski - piano, Fender Rhodes
Ed Howard - bass
Victor Lewis - drums

Ingrid Jensen has the talent to make a dent in the world of jazz, and her hard-edged sound on trumpet hearkens to some of the past masters such as Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, and Clifford Brown. Her excellent choice of a second horn, tenor saxophonist Gary Thomas (who doubles on flute), should have been enough to catapult this recording to the top of the pack, but somehow, the somewhat placid arrangements detract from the whole. Instead of the breakthrough album that might have been, Jensen has produced a good, if fairly pedestrian, recording, one that contains moments of inspired playing but somehow leaves the listener wanting more. Jensen knows how to build tension and release it at unexpected times, and her clipped phrases highlight an otherwise ordinary set.~Steve Loewy

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