Ingrid Jensen

Aaron Janik on trumpet on tracks 1, 5, and 7.

Ingrid Jensen on trumpet on tracks 2 and 8.

Eric Marienthal on alto sax on tracks 5 and 9.

Bob Mincer on tenor sax tracks 3, 5, and 6.

The ending full orchestra arrangement builds to a big climax with the trumpets really screaming out.

Track two is Elysian Shore.

This is slow at the start with a richly arranged opening to a pause before Ingrid Jensen enters with the melody about a minute in, and that's where we'll take a sample from.

Things pick up in tempo and get swinging for the start of her solo.

He's also recorded five albums with the Cologne-based Subway Jazz Orchestra and joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts.

He's performed around the world with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, and Peter Evans, just to name a few.

And since 2026, Michael Kroll has been a professor of jazz trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

the notes for the album say it's inspired by the idea that no flower blooms without rain the music reflects the quiet strength that can emerge from difficult seasons transforming experience into sound with warmth clarity and lyrical depth The lineup here, Michael Kroll on trumpet, Konstantin Kromer on piano, Jakob Kuhnermann on bass, Fabian Roche on drums, and we've got a guest vocalist on a couple of tracks, Tamara Lukasheva, and she's originally from Odessa.

And, you know, when the song was complete, I was actually just workshopping it with some friends.

And it just so happened that at a workshop in Europe, Ingrid Jensen was there.

And she heard the song.

She had some nice things to say.