ITEC 2001 Artists

Ingrid Jensen's trumpet playing is as fresh and alive as her aptly named debut album Vernal Fields. Although her playing has the influences of such jazz greats as Miles Davis, Woody Shaw and Art Farmer, Jensen is creating her own style and conception wether she is playing soft ballads or rapid-fire bop lines. With trumpet in hand, Jensen speaks volumes. And the world is beginning to notice.

Downbeat magazine who critiqued her CD with a four-star rating wrote: " Vernal Fields has the fresh energy and affirmation of a young artist in the act of discovering the outer reaches of her talent...watch for Ingrid Jensen."

Jensen, 30, was born in North Vancouver, Canada, where as a child she often listened to her mother who played ragtime and stride piano " for the sheer enjoyment of it ". A graduate from Malaspina College in Canada, then Berklee College in Boston she moved to New York City and was invited to tour Europe with the Vienna Art Orchestra Production " Fe & Males ". Following the tour with VOA she auditioned for a jazz trumpet professor position at Austria's Bruckner Conservatory, becoming the youngest ( age 25) teacher there. She immersed herself in as much music as possible, sitting in with touring U.S. jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton and His Golden Men Of Jazz, where her performance with them caught the attention of ENJA RECORDS, the label she now records for exclusively.

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