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Christoph Irniger, a prodigious stylist with a warm sound, presents the third album with his band Pilgrim on Intakt Records. With "Crosswinds" the saxophonist who relishes adventure and surprise delivers a cultivated studio album. Multi-layered, subtle and melodically entangled, the eight pieces radiate a wondrous, atmospheric tranquility. A highly nuanced music with a magical sound. Peter Margasak writes in the liner notes: "Crosswinds - this new, gorgeously considered, but luxuriantly open new recording by tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim - is palpably more relaxed on the surface than the quintet's previous albums, yet beneath that veneer of calm is intensely focused and rigorous interplay as well as a level of risk-taking. Irniger and his bandmates have developed a richly contemporary sound that melds ideas from some of the most harmonically advanced thinkers in the US with a distinctly European flavor heard most explicitly".

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Ulrich Gumpert is known for his interesting a fun jazz compositions. Gumpert, a German jazz musician, shows his strength on the piano along with the other fabulous musicians in his quartet: Jurg Wickihalder on saxophone, Jan Roder on bass, and Michael Griener on drums. On this new album, the Ulrich Gumpert Quartet plays many of Gumpert's compositions as well as works by Wickihalder, Griener, and Roder. Berg Noglik says of the quartet, They make progress in bringing the swing back to free jazz.

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