Jazz Articles about Christoph Stiefel

Christoph Stiefel Inner Language Trio: Big Ship

by Bruce Lindsay
March 6, 2014

Big Ship is the latest album to grace the extensive discography of Swiss pianist Christoph Stiefel and the fourth release from his Inner Language Trio. Stiefel is an underrated pianist. He lacks, so far, the public profile of other European players such as Joachim Kuhn or Michael Wollny but that's no reflection on his talent--as Big Ship clearly shows. For some time Steifel has been working with the concept of isorhythms--a musical strategy that dates back to mediaeval ...

Christoph Stiefel Inner Language Trio: Live!

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 26, 2012

Christoph Stiefel è un pianista svizzero non più giovanissimo, di formazione classica, con un passato nel blues e nel rhythm & blues e da una ventina d'anni parecchio attivo nel mondo del jazz nel quale vanta collaborazioni con artisti del calibro di Charlie Mariano, Peter Erskine, Jeff Hirshfield. Con otto anni di vita e quattro pubblicazioni alle spalle il piano trio è la formazione che più di ogni altra consente a Stiefel di esprimere al meglio le proprie idee musicali. ...

Christoph Stiefel: Isorhythms and Circus Clowns

by Bruce Lindsay
November 20, 2012

It's the end of a lengthy but enjoyable telephone interview with Christoph Stiefel and things are drawing to a close. Then the pianist asks if he can add one more comment: “This is my year. This is a really happening year for me: it's incredible. I've developed my style solo and with my Inner Language Trio for eight, maybe 10 years. I've always had plans to incorporate my ideas into other projects: with a dancer, a bigger band and a ...

Christoph Stiefel Trio: 7 meilen Stiefel

by Ian Patterson
July 21, 2007

There is nothing new under the sun. What modern composers such as Kyle Gann and Bruce Hobson have done with rhythms in recent decades was already theory and practice in the fourteenth century. Here, on 7 meilen Stiefel, Swiss pianist Christoph Stiefel in turn explores the possibilities of isorhythms within the context of a contemporary jazz trio.

The employment of isorhythms, (or the layering of different repetitive rhythms) may sound like an intellectual exercise and one which might ...