Igor Lumpert Trio feat. Christopher Tordini & Nasheet Waits (Slovenia/USA)

2 July, CD Club

The last day of the 52nd Ljubljana Jazz Festival featured as many as five considerably dissimilar concerts. Already at noon, the CD Club hosted the Igor Lumpert Trio, which is to perform today already at the Lent festival.

Christopher Tordini on double bass provided persistently meditative accompaniment to Lumpret’s eclectic playing, and drummer Nasheet Waits elevated the soundscape more than grounding it with his rather DeJohnettean bravados. In an alchemistic fashion, Lumpert fused the intricately laced themes and transitions connecting two compositions with open saxophone solos, where post bop was reinvigorated with tinges of free jazz as well as more traditional idioms, utilizing a sophisticated language that enabled different layers of music to speak simultaneously and fluidly at the same time.

                                                                              Andraž Jež