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Christoph Irniger / Pilgrim: Mt. Tongariro

Read "Mt. Tongariro" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Whether by default or intent, Europe's Pilgrim communicates an artistic portraiture of progressive jazz. Framed on the sensibilities of travel and alluding to New Zealand's Mt. Tongariro as a core premise for the underlying themes, this quartet led by saxophonist Christoph Irniger pursues a signature sound and methodology. With ethereal overtones, budding passages, and succinct treks into the free jazz realm, the program encompasses blustery textural components, as the soloists' detail-oriented exchanges are modeled with authority and poise.

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Christoph Irniger Quartet: Chat Noir

Read "Chat Noir" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Svizzero al 100%, Chat Noir è un album che potrebbe benissimo essere stato registrato a New York. Contemporaneo nelle composizioni, nelle sonorità, nel linguaggio. Metropolitano. Irniger ha una vena compositiva felice, che non rifugge la complessità armonica e ritmica ma che mantiene sempre viva una notevole linea melodica, ed il suo quartetto suona molto bene. La sezione ritmica porge il tempo sempre in modo serrato, mentre Wiesendanger alterna pianoforte e Fender Rhodes in funzione delle esigenze espressive (nei brani che ...


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