''Sleepthief'' is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist

Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock (born 24 September 1970) is a German jazz saxophonist, who primarily plays tenor saxophone but also performs and records on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones. She studied with Jean Toussaint, Dave Liebman and at the Guildhal ...

's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer

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. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label.''Sleepthief''
at Intakt Records Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo '' Let's Call This...''. While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born.
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review by Chris May states, "In British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey, Laubrock has found the perfect partners—restlessly inventive, provocative, deep, infinitely nuanced, spontaneously architectural."May, Chris
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notes that, "The music is free-jazz, but full of contrasts. Some of it finds the Monkish Noble banging chords while Rainey plays scattered patterns at half his speed, some has Laubrock's gruff, Evan Parkerish trills and whirrs drifting up and down over piano-string twangs and arrhythmic clatters."Fordham, Joh
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Laubrock, Noble, Rainey'' # "Zugunruhe" – 8:19 # "Sleepthief" – 10:30 # "Oofy Twerp" – 5:54 # "Never Were Not" – 9:55 # "Environmental Stud" – 7:04 # "The Ears Have It" – 8:33 # "Batchelor's Know-how" – 5:39 # "Social Cheats" – 4:39 # "Amelie" – 3:05

Personnel

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saxophones The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pro ...

, piano on 9 * Liam Noble – piano *

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References

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