Andrew Charles Cyrille is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer Chris Kelsey wrote: "Few free-jazz drummers play with a tenth of Cyrille's grace and authority. His energy is unflagging, his power absolute, tempered only by an ever-present sense of propriety."
Evan Shaw Parker is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
Paul Lovens is a German musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw, and cymbals. He has performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
Barre Phillips is an American jazz bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972, he has been based in southern France where, in 2014, he founded the European Improvisation Center.
Irène Schweizer is a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Barry John Guy is an English composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music under Buxton Orr, and later taught there.
Joëlle Léandre is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation.
Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpeter.
Günter "Baby" Sommer is a German jazz drummer.
Michel Godard is a French avant-garde jazz and classical musician. He plays tuba and the predecessor of the tuba, a brass instrument known as the serpent.
Trevor Charles Watts is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.
Gerhard Rochus "Gerd" Dudek was a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.
Fleuve is the second album by the Pierre Favre Ensemble, led by Swiss jazz percussionist Pierre Favre. The album was recorded in October 2005 in Switzerland and released in October 2006 by ECM. Produced by Manfred Eicher, it was Favre's first album for ECM in eleven years and marked the return of the ensemble since their 1984 debut Singing Drums, presenting a new line-up that departed from the previous incarnation's all-percussion sound. The new line-up included seven musicians and new instrumentation, including harp, double clarinet, double bass, tuba, guitar, bass guitar, soprano saxophone, and serpent. The latter instrument is rarely used in jazz.
Fredy Studer was a Swiss drummer and percussionist.
Samuel Blaser is a Swiss trombonist and composer.
Vincent Courtois is a French jazz cellist.
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.
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.
Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre is a live album by pianist Irène Schweizer and drummer Pierre Favre. It was recorded on February 16 and 17, 1990, at Restaurant Schweizerbund in Bern, Switzerland, and was released in 1992 by Intakt Records.
