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Prelude To A Kiss And More

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Irene Schweizer-piano

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UPC: 7640120194567

Label: Intakt
Catalog ID: 456
Squidco Product Code: 37734

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels w/ booklet
Recorded live at Volkshaus, in Zurich, Switzerland, on February 1st, 1986, by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF).

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"Prelude to a Kiss and More shows Irene Schweizer at the height of her powers, in February 1986 in Zurich. With her exuberance, her improvisational skill, her powerful touch and her sense of style, this recording documents a climax in the pianist's oeuvre. And with its strong relationship to jazz history, the album sets an important note in the pianist's discography. In few other recordings can you hear Irene Schweizer's connection to American jazz as clearly as in this concert tape. Just back from her six-month stay in New York, Irene Schweizer played in addition to her own compositions, jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Duke Ellington. George Lewis, trombonist and professor at New York's Columbia University, described Irene Schweizer as an "Afrodiasporic musician", and as "post-European." She did not set boundaries between jazz traditions, South-African inspiration, free jazz and European-influenced improvisation. In the physical power of the moment, which no art form achieves like free improvisation, Irene Schweizer gave expression to her lived emotion. This landmark solo recording from 1986, the year Intakt Records was founded, celebrates the Zurich-based label's 40th anniversary."-Intakt

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"Irène Schweizer (born 2 June 1941) is a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941. She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie Born and Sally Potter. She has also performed a series of duets with drummers Pierre Favre, Louis Moholo, Andrew Cyrille, Günter Sommer, Han Bennink, Hamid Drake, as well as in trio and quartet sessions with others, including John Tchicai, Evan Parker and Peter Kowald. With Yusef Lateef, Uli Trepte and Mani Neumeier she performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967. One of her most enduring collaborations is with the improvising musician Rüdiger Carl (de)."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Schweizer)
11/9/2026

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Track Listing:

1. Iax - Been To America 11:58

2. Struggle On The V.G. Terrace 17:20

3. Serious Fun 5:01

4. Dancing On The Bowery 7:02

5. Reflections 3:20

6. Below The Gate 5:23

7. Once Again Thelonious 6:11

8. Prelude To A Kiss 5:39

9. Back Home 2:59

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