{"id":10621,"date":"2018-10-10T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2018-10-10T22:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:14:55","slug":"a-progressive-jazz-pilgrimage-comes-to-the-jazz-gallery-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=10621","title":{"rendered":"A progressive jazz pilgrimage comes to the Jazz Gallery Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christoph Irniger and <\/b><\/strong>Pilgrim, a Swiss progressive jazz group. The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts<\/b><\/strong>,<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0926 E. Center St., Milwaukee. 8 PM<\/b><\/strong>,<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>Thursday October 11, S<\/b><\/strong>uggested donation $10<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Swiss band named\u00a0Pilgrim seems on a pilgrimage \u2013 a traveling quest to convey their vision along a freely exploratory pathway, which\u00a0leads them all the way to Milwaukee’s Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts on Thursday.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re receptive to music that\u2019s expansive, texturally rich and atmospheric, Pilgrim might snatch you up on their trip,\u00a0at least for this evening. From what I’ve heard online,\u00a0the band has the right stuff and sensibility to latch onto, says,\u00a0ECM, the major European-mining jazz label, if that labels visionary leader\u00a0and producer,\u00a0Manfred Eicher, gets an earful of them.<\/p>\n

Pilgrim is\u00a0also further proof of the international language that jazz has become, since being born and cultivated from a profound roots\u00a0music into various iterations of high art in America. It remains perhaps more greatly appreciated in its more sophisticated forms in Europe, ironically due, in part,\u00a0to America’s still-rough-hewn anti-intellectualism and cultural hang-ups, which\u00a0keep \u201ctribes\u201d\u00a0of Americans from appreciating artistic gestures that seem located across their\u00a0divides.<\/p>\n

One of the least desirable presumptions from the cultural left is that a certain product or artist is for hipsters or cognoscenti only. What good does that do but promote insularity and snobbishness?<\/p>\n

Soapboxing aside, there\u2019s\u00a0a certain wind-in-the-face coolness to this music,\u00a0but anyone with an open mind\u00a0might\u00a0find stimulation in this pilgrimage\u00a0and, if needed, a bridge a cultural gap, in one\u2019s imagination.\u00a0\u00a0I’m impressed by how the\u00a0band\u00a0forges\u00a0ahead in the spacious and sometimes treacherous\u00a0realm encompassing\u00a0minimalism and modal and free jazz, with electronic fueling when necessary.<\/p>\n

Pilgrim\u00a0is led by tenor saxophonist and bass\u00a0clarinetist\u00a0Christoph Irniger. I just saw the jazz titan David Murray playing the same two instruments at the exciting new Madison music venue Caf\u00e9 CODA, and was reminded of the warm depth and color of the low-register clarinet, made famous in jazz by Eric Dolphy. Iringer, a still-young Swiss player won’t compare to Murray\u2019s mastery yet, but expect serious tonal and textural range from the pilgrim who also is the primary composer. The group also includes prominently featured guitarist Dave Gisler, pianist Stefan Abey, bassist Raffaele Bossard, and drummer Michi Stulz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christoph Irniger and Pilgrim, a Swiss progressive jazz group. The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts,\u00a0926 E. Center St., Milwaukee. 8 PM,\u00a0Thursday October 11, Suggested donation $10   The Swiss band named\u00a0Pilgrim seems on a pilgrimage \u2013 a traveling quest … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-2Lj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}