Jazz Articles about Irene Schweizer

Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer: Berne Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 21, 2009

Ci sta che un gruppo alla ribalta da quasi un ventennio, concerto dopo concerto, disco dopo disco, giunga ad un equilibrio statico delle proprie dinamiche, a un'inconscia cristallizzazione delle trame musicali, dei ruoli e infine alla prevedibilità dell'esito artistico. Meravigliosa prevedibilità trattandosi del Trio 3 di Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman e Andrew Cyrille, ma pur sempre prevedibilità. Non a caso, recensendo il precedente Time Being, uscito sempre per la Intakt, si parlava di pilota automatico inserito dai tre veterani: allora ...

Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer: Berne Concert

by John Sharpe
April 20, 2009

Almost without anyone noticing, Trio 3 has become one of the great working bands in jazz. That's not the default outcome of longevity: though saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille first got together under the Trio 3 moniker back in 1992, they have become, if anything, a more cohesive unit over time. Their previous release, Time Being (Intakt, 2007), was one of their strongest, with an acute group aesthetic brought to bear on a fertile blend ...

Trio 3 / Irene Schweizer: Berne Concert

by Nic Jones
March 7, 2009

Maybe a look at the participants is enough to make clear that the music they produce is going to be something. This program doesn't disappoint, even while many expectations may be confounded. As is often the case, when musicians are caught for posterity in a live setting, the music comes from a different place, and those expecting high energy workouts are going to be disappointed as the reality is somewhat different.

Of course it has to be emphasized that the ...

Schweizer / Anderson / Drake: Willisau & Taktlos

by Nic Jones
March 4, 2008

Pianist Irene Schweizer, tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake on drums are individually benign forces of nature, no question about it, and the performances documented here testify to the fact. All three players are deeply alert to the integral values of free playing and they mine the seam so deeply that it seems as though their creativity is bottomless.

“A Former Dialogue" is taken as a duo by Schweizer and Drake and the extraordinary empathy of their work is ...

Irene Schweizer: Ramifications

by Clifford Allen
November 27, 2007

One of the leading exponents of free piano playing in Europe from the late 1960s onward, Swiss-born Irène Schweizer occupied a somewhat lonely place in the high-energy FMP canon as she worked with Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Manfred Schoof, the Wuppertal reedman Rüdiger Carl and others in European free improvisation's heyday. Renowned as a soloist and for her duets with many of today's most innovative percussionists, she also co-led the Feminist Improvising Group in the 1980s and the trio Les ...

Irene Schweizer - Fred Anderson - Hamid Drake: Live in Willisau & Taktlos

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 15, 2007

Non ce ne voglia Fred Anderson, splendido e storico rappresentante della scena free di Chicago, ma questo CD brilla principalmente per le magie di “A Former Dialogue“, sontuosa conversazione tra la pianista svizzera Irene Schweizer ed il percussionista statunitense Hamid Drake. Live Taktlos & Willisau raccoglie le esibizioni del trio Schweizer/Anderson/Drake al Festival di Willisau nell’agosto 2004, e del duo Schweizer/Drake al Festival Taktlos di Zurigo nel marzo 1998. E proprio quest’ultima è la gemma indiscussa dell’intero CD, un magico ...

Irene Schweizer: First Choice. Piano Solo KKL Luzern

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 15, 2007

Il KKL è il Kultur und Kongresszentrum di Lucerna, e tra le sue iniziative presenta una serie di concerti chiamati “Director's Choice”, ovvero musicisti invitati direttamente dal direttore del centro, secondo i suoi gusti ed inclinazioni personali. Nel 2005, il concerto di apertura dei Director's Choice è stato affidato ad Irene Schweizer, figura storica e fondamentale del jazz svizzero. In solitaria, alla maniera di Keith Jarrett (da cui del resto l'estetica della Schweizer non è troppo distante), la pianista ha ...