Ulrichsberg is a live album by pianist Irène Schweizer and drummer Pierre Favre. It was recorded in May 2003 at Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon in Austria, and was released by Intakt Records in 2004.[1]
| Ulrichsberg | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Live album by | |
| Released | 2004 |
| Recorded | May 2, 2003 |
| Venue | Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Austria |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Intakt Records CD 084 |
| Producer | Intakt Records |
Schweizer and Favre first met at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1966, and have been playing together in a variety of contexts since then.[2]
Reception
edit| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| The Guardian |   [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | A−[5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham wrote: "A hard-hitting pianist who also brings delicacy and shape to unstructured music, Schweizer ripples seamlessly throughout. She lets Favre fill shrewdly scattered open spaces, powers into jazzy pulses, disappears into quiet meditations, broods in booming chords, and delivers as dazzling a display as any in her field... The kind of free jazz that makes the idiom new friends, and likely to be one of the albums of the year."[3]
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and stated: "one marvels at... the clarity and purpose in the playing. There's no clatter or rhetorical fog; both musicians call on their powers of instinct and intellect to divine a music which sounds deep and complex and at the same moment entirely transparent. Irène says how much she delights in 'our joy in playing', and there's scarcely a moment here where that isn't manifest."[4]
Bill Meyer of Dusted Magazine noted that the album "feels like a shared purpose" and "grows in stature with each spin." He commented: "Each transition seems right and the music is all theirs... Despite its makers' long history working in the nooks and crannies of European improv; despite Schweizer's percussive inside-and-outside piano work; despite Favre's circuitous melodic forays, this is undeniably a jazz record."[7]
Track listing
edit- "Twin Dialogue" – 15:14
- "It's About Time" – 12:02
- "Ulrich, Ulrich, Der Wagen Bricht! (Dedicated To Peter Kowald)" – 10:18
- "Unwritten Messages" – 6:56
- "Nomades" – 8:56
- "Waltz For Lois" – 5:25
Personnel
edit- Irène Schweizer – piano
- Pierre Favre – drums
References
edit- ^ "Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre: Ulrichsberg". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ Ulrichsberg (liner notes). Irène Schweizer and Pierre Favre. Intakt Records. 2004. CD 084.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b Fordham, John (February 26, 2004). "Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre: Ulrichsberg". The Guardian. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1164.
- ^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Irene Schweizer". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 297.
- ^ Meyer, Bill (July 14, 2004). "Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre - Ulrichsberg". Dusted. Retrieved April 5, 2023.