Irene Schweizer, in concert in 2015. Photo by Peter Gannushkin. |
By Paul Acquaro
This year the Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer celebrated her 80th birthday. The writers at the Free Jazz Blog have covered the influential pianist‘s work over the years and we thought it would be an appropriate celebration of her milestone year by reviewing not only her most recent release on the Intakt label, Celebration, a duo with Chicago percussionist Hamid Drake, but also survey some of the recent releases from the label, which is closely associated with Schweizer.
- Silke Eberhard Trio – Being the Up and Down
- Punkt.Vrt.Plastik (Kaja Draksler/ Petter Eldh/ Christian Lillinger) – Somit
- Alexander Hawkins – Togetherness Music
- Mark Feldman – Sounding Point