''Wilde Señoritas'' is a live solo piano album by
Irène Schweizer. Her first solo release, it was recorded on November 4, 1976, at the Total Music Meeting held at the Quartier Latin in Berlin, and was issued in 1977 by the
FMP label. In 2002,
Intakt Records
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History
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reissued the album in combination with ''
Hexensabbat''.
A recording made earlier in 1976 at the Flöz in Berlin was originally intended to be released under the name ''Wilde Señoritas'', and made it to the
test pressing stage. However, upon reviewing it, Schweizer and producer Jost Gebers agreed that the piano was badly out of tune, and the album was re-recorded.
The final section of "Saitengebilde" ("Swing Structure") pays homage to South African saxophonist
Dudu Pukwana, and quotes from his tune "Angel Nemali" from the album ''In the Townships''.
Reception
Referring to the influence of
Cecil Taylor
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, the authors of ''
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' called the album "the most Taylorish" of Schweizer's releases, but noted that it is "marked by a melodic warmth which the American wholly lacks."
of ''
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'' stated: "the quality of her improvisation is very high... The music she performs flows in a good continuous way, the movement being more jerky than one is perhaps used to, the element of blackness, which she obviously does not have, is not there, and so perhaps this is not jazz, but Irène Schweizer's improvised music."
''JazzWords Ken Waxman suggested that, on the title track, where Schweizer "highlights individual notes as well as pleasant sub themes" while "leaven
ngthe presentation with some repeated European arpeggios and stride piano suggestions," "her gospelly chord clusters aren't there to show off inhuman speed or brute strength." On the closing track, which "alternates her distinctive rubato inside-piano-percussion with linear playing on the keys, featuring circular note clusters and plenty of wide intervals in the treble clef," Waxman is reminded of
Thelonious Monk, "expanding on the mechanics of one of his own compositions."
Track listing
All compositions by Irène Schweizer.
# "Wilde Señoritas" – 15:50
# "Saitengebilde (Last Part to Dudu)" – 18:17
Personnel
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Irène Schweizer – piano
References
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1977 live albums
FMP Records live albums
Irène Schweizer live albums