Piergiorgio Pirro Quintet
feat. Lynn Cassiers

Piergiorgio Pirro continues his exploration of the dialogue between jazz and spectral music and brings together a new incarnation of his band, this time featuring the boundary-pushing vocalist and soundscaper Lynn Cassiers and inventive alto saxophonist Rob Banken

Following the 2023 release of the album fold/unfold/refold, Piergiorgio Pirro, together with his new quintet has recorded a new album which is soon to be released.

Pioneered by composers like Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Horațiu Rădulescu, and Fausto Romitelli, spectral music emerged as an influential movement in art music during the 1970s and 80s. Spectral composers drew inspiration from the physics of sound, challenging conventional perceptions of musical parameters. Pirro seeks to apply spectral techniques within a small jazz ensemble, emphasizing spontaneous creation over extensive arrangements and using spectralism as a lens to reimagine the essence of playing jazz together.

A distinctive feature of this project is Pirro’s dual role as pianist and performer on the LinnStrument, a touch-sensitive synthesizer controller that expands the piano’s expressive palette with shimmering microtonal nuances. Each note becomes a living entity, resonating and bending in subtle ways, while the other members of the ensemble weave their own microtonal threads into the sonic fabric.

Together, they craft a music that is at once recognizably jazz and entirely otherworldly—a delicate, evolving landscape where timbre, texture, and improvisation interact in constant, surprising dialogue.