Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review

(Intakt)Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer has been a key figure in European free jazz and improv since the early 1960s, and this unaccompanied performance is an exhilarating 70th-birthday celebration in which she ranges across styles and composers from ragtime and serial music to Thelonious Monk, Carla Bley, Don Cherry and Abdullah Ibrahim. Schweizer has often been saddled with comparisons to Cecil Taylor, and there are certainly passages here in which she explodes into torrential, Tayloresque maes...

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