Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra; Sherisse Rogers, conductor; Ingrid Jensen, soloist. Jazz trumpeter Ingrid 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. After graduating from Berklee, she toured with the Vienna Art Orchestra and taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Austria when she was 25. In 1994, her debut album Vernal Fields (Enja, 1994) won a Juno Award. Most recently Ingrid was chosen as the 2019 recipient of the Jazz Journalists Trumpeter-of-the-Year award. Conductor Sherisse Rogers received the 2001 Best Arrangement award from The American Society of Musicians Composers and Arrangers for her orchestral arrangement of Here's that Rainy Day. She was awarded the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award in years 2003, 2005 and 2007. A versatile composer, her styles range from jazz and classical to world music and Rhythm & Blues. She was a regular arranger and orchestrator for the world-renowned crossover orchestra The Metropole Orchestra based in the Netherlands from 2007-2009, and she was a featured composer and clinician in Stockholm, Sweden at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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