Sarah Buechi (born 18 October 1981 in Luzern) is a Swiss jazz singer.
Sarah Buechi (born 18 October 1981 in Luzern) is a Swiss jazz singer.
Buechi, who comes from a family of musicians (her mother is an organist and choirmaster, and her father composer and piano teacher) and grew up in the Canton of Glarus aufwuchs, received violin lessons at the age of five. Next she learned piano and guitar. After playing rock music in youth and writing a Musical theatre she studied at the Jazz Department of the College of Music with Lauren Newton and Susanne Abbuehl until 2007, and for 18 months at the Karnataka College of Percussion with R. A. Ramamani. Since then, her vocals feature microtonal elements of South Indian music. She also had lessons with Médéric Collignon, Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton and Steve Coleman.
In 2008 she toured with the band Zoom led by Lucas Niggli, then with the Swiss Indian Orchestra and with her group Thali, with whom she recorded her first album in 2010. She also played with the Helvetic Fiddlers at the Alpentöne festival in 2011. [1] She also was part of the Christy Dorans New Bag and the Christoph Stiefels Isorhythm Orchestra, with whom she performed at the Jazzfestival Schaffhausen. [2]
Since September 2008 she has been a lecturer at the Newpark Music Center in Dublin. In 2010 she received the Travelling and Training Award of Artscouncil Ireland. [3]
Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: "Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano... She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." In addition to her own extensive work as a soloist or bandleader, Crispell is also known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's quartet in the 1980s and '90s.
Irène Schweizer was a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist.
Alexander von Schlippenbach is a German jazz pianist and composer. He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra. Since the 1980s, Von Schlippenbach has explored the work of more traditional jazz composers such as Jelly Roll Morton or Thelonious Monk.
Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist.
Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist, improviser and bandleader. She was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland, and has been a resident of New York City since 1998. She won Germany’s International Jazz Piano Prize in 2022 and was named Pianist of the Year for 2023 in the international critics poll of Spanish jazz publication El Intruso. NPR’s Kevin Whitehead has encapsulated the distinctive character of Courvoisier’s art this way: “Some pianists approach the instrument like it’s a cathedral. Sylvie Courvoisier treats it like a playground.”
Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland.
John Wolf Brennan is an Irish pianist, organist, melodica player, and composer based in Weggis, Switzerland.
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Double Trouble is an album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Documenting a large-scale, 46-minute composition by Guy, it was recorded in April 1989 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released in 1990 by Intakt Records.
Double Trouble Two is an album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra with guest artists Irène Schweizer (piano), Marilyn Crispell (piano), and Pierre Favre (drums). Documenting a large-scale, 47-minute composition by Guy, it was recorded in December 1995 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released in 1998 by Intakt Records.
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