Ingrid Jensen

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Canadian jazz trumpeter (born 1966)

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birth_placeNorth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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occupationMusician
instrumentTrumpet
years_active1987–present
labelEnja, SteepleChase, Justin Time, ArtistShare, Whaling City Sound, Whirlwind
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| name = Ingrid Jensen | image = Ingrid Jensen.jpg | caption =Ingrid Jensen, North Sea Jazz festival, 2008 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_date = | birth_place = North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Trumpet | years_active = 1987–present | label = Enja, SteepleChase, Justin Time, ArtistShare, Whaling City Sound, Whirlwind | associated_acts = DIVA | website = ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Ingrid_Jensen_DSC0096z.jpg" caption="Ingrid Jensen, TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, 2009"] ::

Ingrid Jensen (born January 12, 1966) is a Canadian jazz trumpeter.

Music career

Jensen was born in North 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, as well as her sister Christine Jensen.

She has performed on Saturday Night Live with the British soul singer Corrine Bailey Rae and in the horn section backing actor Denis Leary.

Since 2020 she has recorded and performed with the jazz band Artemis, led by Renee Rosnes.

Discography

As leader

  • Vernal Fields (Enja, 1995)
  • Around the World I (ACT, 1997)
  • Leave It to DIVA (DIVA 1997)
  • Here on Earth (Enja, 1997)
  • Higher Ground (Enja, 1999)
  • Now as Then with Gary Versace, Jon Wikan (Justin Time, 2003)
  • At Sea (ArtistShare, 2005)
  • Flurry (ArtistShare, 2007)
  • Kind of New with Jason Miles (Whaling City Sound, 2015)
  • Infinitude with Christine Jensen, Ben Monder (Whirlwind, 2016)
  • Invisible Sounds with Steve Treseler (Whirlwind, 2018)

As member

With Artemis

  • Artemis (Blue Note, 2020)
  • In Real Time (Blue Note, 2023)
  • Arboresque (Blue Note, 2025)

As guest

With Maria Schneider

With others

References

References

  1. (8 August 2004). "Jazz Jensen-Style".
  2. (24 September 2007). "Ingrid Jensen: Viking Spirit".
  3. "Ingrid Jensen {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic".
  4. https://www.bluenote.com/artist/artemis/
  5. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/artemis
  6. https://www.allmusic.com/album/artemis-mw0003408208
  7. https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-real-time-mw0003961691
  8. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/album/in-real-time
  9. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/album/arboresque-renee-rosnes
  10. https://www.allmusic.com/album/arboresque-mw0004456074

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