Ingrid Jensen

Ingrid Jensen ( born January 12, 1966 in North Vancouver ) is a Canadian jazz trumpet player.

Life and work

Jensen, who grew up on a farm near Nanaimo (British Columbia), comes from a musical family. ( The saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen is her sister. ) She studied at the universities of Malaspina and at the Berklee College of Music, and then moved to New York. After a European tour with the Vienna Art Orchestra 1990, she was the youngest professor at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, where she taught until 1992 jazz trumpet. Back in New York, she played with the Women's Jazz Diva, Dr. John, the GRP All-Stars, the Maria Schneider Orchestra. In addition, she worked with Carolyn Breuer, Jeff Tain Watts, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Marc Copland, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, John Enders, Jeff Hamilton, Bill Stewart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis, Judi Silvano Knut Haugsoen and Clark Terry. As a bandleader and guest soloist, she toured North America, Japan, South America and Europe. Brilliant sound and virtuosity on trumpet and flugelhorn combined with a personal expression.

Currently, she teaches at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. For their plates at Enja she was nominated several times for the Canadian Juno Awards. From Downbeat Magazine, she was elected to the " 25 most important improvising musicians of the future" and several times in the top three of the " talent deserving resist recognition". In 2003 she was nominated for a Jazz Journalist Association Award in New York.