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Irène Schweizer
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
The pianist Irène Schweizer from Schaffhausen in Switzerland first played Dixieland and hard bop, and in the 1960s became one of the first European women in free jazz. In 1967 she played on Jazz Meets India. She worked with Peter Brötzmann, Louis Moholo and Han Bennink, and in the 1970s also with the Feminist Improvising Group, a group of improvising women. From 1986 she recorded extensively for the Zürich label Intakt, which she co-founded. Her playing is energetic and rhythmic, with influences from South African jazz that she heard in Zürich in the 1960s. She died in 2024.
Listening
Listening tip. Notice the rhythmic, almost dancing piano playing.
Sun Love · Manfred Schoof, Barney Wilen, Irène Schweizer & Dewan Motihar Trio, 1967
Wilde Señoritas · Irène Schweizer, 1976
Mra · Irène Schweizer & Louis Moholo, 1986
Discography
Studio albums
- 1967Jazz Meets India
- 1975Ramifications
- 1976Messer
- 1977Wilde Señoritas
- 1978Hexensabbat
- 1978The Very Centre of Middle Europe
- 1978Tuned Boots
- 1981Die V-Mann Suite
- 1987Cordial Gratin
- 1989Paris Quartet
- 1991Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments
- 1992[untitled]
- 1992Piano Solo, Volume 1
- 1992Theoria
- 1996Irène Schweizer & Louis Moholo
- 1996Piano Solo: Many and One Direction
- 1997European Masters Of Improvisation
- 1998Double Trouble Two
- 2000Ensemble Oggimusica Meets Irène Schweizer
- 2001Chicago Piano Solo
- 2002Twin Lines
- 2005Where's Africa
- 2006First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern
- 2009Can Walk on Sand
- 2011Jump!
- 2011To Whom It May Concern: Piano Solo Tonhalle Zürich
- 2015Welcome Back
Other work
- 1986Irène Schweizer · Louis Moholo
In School of Rock
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