Instruments Trumpet Name Ingrid Jensen | Genres Jazz | |
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Role Jazz trumpet player · ingridjensen.com Albums Kind of New, Miles Ahead, Bright Nights, Vernal Fields Awards Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year Similar People Christine Jensen, Jason Miles, Marianne Trudel, Maria Schneider, Gary Versace | ||
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Ingrid Jensen (born January 12, 1966 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian jazz trumpet player. She has been nominated for several Juno awards, winning one for her first album, Vernal Fields.
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- Aqui ajazz ingrid jensen higher ground
- Ingrid jensen playing her new prana xltj stc
- Music career
- As leader
- As sidewoman
- References
Ingrid jensen playing her new prana xltj stc
Music career
Jensen was born in Vancouver and grew up in Nanaimo. She received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
After graduating from Berklee, she toured with the Vienna Art Orchestra and taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Austria when she was 25. She went back to the U.S. in 1994 and became a member of the DIVA Big Band. During the same year, her debut album Vernal Fields (Enja, 1994) appeared and won a Juno Award.
Jensen has worked with Maria Schneider, Steve Wilson, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bob Berg, Gary Bartz, Bill Stewart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, and Billy Taylor.
She has performed on Saturday Night Live with the British soul singer Corrine Bailey Rae and has been playing in the horn section backing actor Denis Leary. She has performed with her sister, Christine Jensen, who plays saxophone.
As leader
As sidewoman
with Tobias Meinhart
with Chris Connor
with Geoff Keezer
with DIVA Big Band
with Vienna Art Orchestra
with Dena DeRose
with Virginia Mayhew
with Judi Silvano
with the Maria Schneider Orchestra
with the Steve Treseler Group
with Marianne Trudel
with Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal
with Maggi Olin