Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase
Kasumi
2019 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 337
http://www.intaktrec.ch/337-a.htm
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/kasumi
* Ingrid Laubrock : tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
* Aki Takase : piano
http://www.ingridlaubrock.com/
http://www.akitakase.de/
Recorded by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios Winterthur,
Switzerland, on September 15 & 16, 2018.
Reviews
By Don Phipps
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/kasumi-aki-takase-intakt-records
Looking into a mirror, one can see a reflection. Holding a mirror up to a
mirror, one can see not only one reflection but a series of
reflections. Kasumi, a chamber-jazz album from pianist Aki Takase and
saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, is a lot like that—the compositions form a series
of reflections, in this case highlighted by top-drawer abstract music.
Modernism pervades the compositions —five by Takase, three by Laubrock, and
four written jointly. Each piece has its own personality but, like layers laid
one on top of another, they form a whole that is bolstered by the technical
virtuosity of the duo. [...]
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Intakt Records
http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev337.htm
By Matthew Banash
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2020/08/two-from-laubrock-two-from-intakt-two.html
By John Sharpe
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD70/PoD70MoreMoments4.html
By Aaron Cohen
https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/kasumi
By Lynn René Bayley
https://artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/takase-laubrock-reap-musical-profits/
Jan Granlie (no)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/ingrid-laubrock-aki-takase/
Jan van Leersum (nl)
https://www.rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2019/NOV1/CD127.html
Ben Taffijn (nl)
https://draaiomjeoren.blogspot.com/2020/01/cds-stephan-crump-ingrid-laubrock-cory.html
Da Aldo Del Noce (it)
http://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4104:ingrid-laubrock-a-aki-takase-kasumi&catid=2:recensioni&Itemid=11
Par Claude Loxhay (fr)
https://www.jazzhalo.be/reviews/cdlp-reviews/various/intakt-records-version-sax/
Par Nicolas Dourlhès (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Ingrid-Laubrock-Aki-Takase.html
