Bill Milkowski / Jazz Times

Since moving to New York in the fall of 2000, tenor saxophonist and composer Igor Lumpert has gone through a process of total immersion in jazz through his studies with renowned bassist Reggie Workman at the New School University and on the bandstand with his group Innertextures at such New York venues as Cornelia Street Cafe and Kavehaz. From listening to his debut recording as a leader - 2004 Mineral Mind - it is clear that Igor has developed a firm grasp of the jazz vernacular. Through his interaction on the bandstand with working professionals on the New York jazz scene, he has absorbed many of the intangible qualities that simply cannot be taught in a classroom here or abroad. I can hear this in his playing - a certain rhythmic assuredness, a touch a swagger and kind of all-knowing abandon that only comes from interacting with New York drummers and bass players.

Zoran Pistotnik / Muska, 2004
On the release of the CD Innertextures
 
"Igor Lumpert is without a doubt one of those European jazz
musicians who showed an immense creative developement in the past few years and still promise to give so much much more."

"Igor Lumpert's Innertextures is definitely a valuable document; for himself and for the history of Jazz as well."

Zoran Pistotnik / Radio Študent

"...a tenor saxophonist sporting currently probably most replete and simply abundant sound among the Slovenian players of this instrument."