First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern

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First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern
Live album by
Irène Schweizer
Released2006
RecordedOctober 8, 2005
VenueKultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
GenreFree jazz
Length55:07
LabelIntakt Records
CD 108
ProducerIntakt Records
Irène Schweizer chronology
Where's Africa
(2005) 		First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern
(2006) 		Willisau & Taktlos
(2007)

First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern is a live solo piano album by Irène Schweizer. It was recorded at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern in Lucerne, Switzerland on October 8, 2005, and was released in 2006 by Intakt Records.[1][2][3][4]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[6]
Tom Hull – on the WebB+[7]

In a review for All About Jazz, Nic Jones wrote: "A real mark of this disc is the degree of difference between the surface of the music and what lies beneath it. With that in mind, it can almost serve as background in the sense of being complementary to some activity other than listening itself—but deeper listening reveals the work of a fierce musical intelligence, however, and is by far the preferable alternative."[5]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, noting that Schweizer's solo recitals have "deepen[ed] in resonance and technical surety." They stated: "Schweizer has learned how to make absence and silence work; they're used sparingly but to tremendous effect... Great sound."[6]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Irène Schweizer except "Oska T." by Thelonious Monk.

  1. "First Choice" – 19:18
  2. "Into the Hall of Fame" – 9:49
  3. "The Ballad of the Sad Café" – 3:57
  4. "Scratching at the KKL" – 5:51
  5. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Piano Player" – 4:49
  6. "Oska T." – 3:12
  7. "Jungle Beats II" – 3:22

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Irène Schweizer: First Choice". AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  2. ^ "Irène Schweizer - First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  3. ^ "Irène Schweizer: First Choice: Piano Solo KKL Luzern". Intakt Records. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  4. ^ "Irène Schweizer discography". JazzLists. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Jones, Nic (October 12, 2006). "Irene Schweizer: First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  6. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1272.
  7. ^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Irene Schweizer". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
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