Artist:Ingrid and Christine Jensen
Song:Blue Yonder
Album:Infinitude
Ingrid and Christine Jensen are sisters and jazz musicians who sometimes work together as they do on this 2017 album. But they also have individual careers. I chose this album because they are performing together on the video clip. They are from Nanaimo, BC. Ingrid was born in 1966 and Christine was born in 1970. Ingrid plays trumpet and Christine plays saxophone. Ingrid attended Berklee in Boston on a scholarship. After graduating, she moved to Austria and toured with the Vienna Art Orchestra and taught at the Bruckner Conservatory. She returned to the US in 1994 and has been recording and touring ever since. She won a Juno for her 1995 debut album Vernal Fields. Most recently she was in the all female jazz group Artemis when they recorded for Blue Note in 2020. She has also worked with Maria Schneider, Terri Lyne Carrington and many others. Christine earned a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She went on to teach there for many years. She is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Eastman School of Music in Rochester. No doubt influenced by Maria Schneider, Christine started the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra in 2010. Blue Yonder was on the 2013 album Habitat which won a Juno. That was the second of three Jazz Orchestra albums. Blue Yonder is also on the 2017 album Infinitude on the British label Whirlwind. This is the only album they have recorded together though Ingrid has appeared on Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra albums. They wrote most of the songs. Musicians are Ben Monder on guitar, Fraser Hollins on bass and Jon Wikan on drums. Christine has a new Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra album out next week. Ingrid is currently touring with Artemis. Here's Ingrid and Christine Jensen with Gary Versace on piano, Fraser Hollins on bass and Jon Wikan on drums performing Blue Yonder at the 2013 Montreal Jazz Festival.
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