Pierre Favre is a Swiss jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 and percussionist born in Le Locle

Le Locle

Le Locle is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.It is situated in the Jura mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds....

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, perhaps most noteworthy for his work with Irene Schweizer

Irène Schweizer

Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...

.

Favre released a 1984 album, along with Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

 and Nana Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....

, that was titled Singing Drums for the ECM label. He also appears on the John Surman

John Surman

John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...

 album, Such Winters of Memory. He has recorded with several well-known musicians, including Tamia

Tamia Valmont

Tamia Valmont also known as Tamia, is a French composer and singer.-Biography:Tamia Valmont made her stage debut at the Châteauvallon Jazz Festival with Michel Portal, in France, in 1972...

, Michel Godard

Michel Godard

Michel Godard is a French tuba player and jazz musician.Godard was admitted at the age of 18 to the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France. His ability to produce overtones and musicality leaves the listener surprised at how light a seemingly cumbersome tuba can sound...

, Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

, Paul Giger

Paul Giger

Paul Giger , is a Swiss violinist and composer. He plays contemporary classical music, jazz, and free improvised music, and specializes in extended techniques....

, Jiří Stivín

Jirí Stivín

Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music .Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and...

, Michel Portal

Michel Portal

Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.Portal studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris...

, the ARTE Quartett

ARTE Quartett

The ARTE Quartett was founded in 1995 by the saxophonists Beat Hofstetter, Sascha Armbruster, Andrea Formenti and Beat Kappeler.They are mainly committed to contemporary music and to jazz and free improvised music...

 and Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....

.

Select discography

As bandleader

Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

• Pierre Favre Quartet (Wergo Records)
• Santana (FMP Records)
• Pierre Favre European Chamber Ensemble (Intakt Records)
• Singing Drums
  Singing Drums
  Singing Drums is an album by percussionist Pierre Favre recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...
  
   (ECM, 1984)
• Fleuve (ECM, 1989)
• Window Steps (ECM, 1996)
• De La Nuit...Le Jour (Polygram Records)

With Irene Schweizer

Irène Schweizer

Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...

• Irene Schweizer & Pierre Favre (Intakt Records)
• Portrait (Intakt Records)
• Ulrichsberg (Intakt Records)

With John Surman

John Surman

John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...

• Such Winters of Memory
  Such Winters of Memory
  Such Winters of Memory is an album by English saxophonist John Surman recorded in 1982 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...
  
   (ECM, 1982)

With Tamia

Tamia

Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...

• Solitudes (ECM Records)

With Manfred Schoof

Manfred Schoof

Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpet player.He studied music in Kassel and Cologne.He is a founder of European free jazz and collaborated with Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, and Irène Schweizer...

• European Echoes (FMP Records)

With Michel Godard

Michel Godard

Michel Godard is a French tuba player and jazz musician.Godard was admitted at the age of 18 to the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France. His ability to produce overtones and musicality leaves the listener surprised at how light a seemingly cumbersome tuba can sound...

• Saxophones (Intakt Records)
• Castel Del Monte (Enja Records)
• Deux (Altrisuoni)

With Jiří Stivín

Jirí Stivín

Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music .Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and...

• Výlety (Supraphon Records)
• Excursions II Twenty Years After (P&J Music)

With Michel Portal

Michel Portal

Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.Portal studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris...

• Splendid Yzlment (CBS Records
  CBS Records
  CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
  
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With Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....

• Music By... (ECM Records)
• String Summit: One World In Eight (MPS Records)

With Dino Saluzzi

Dino Saluzzi

Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...

• Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South
  Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South
  Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South is an album by Argentine bandoneón player and composer Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars....
  
   (ECM, 1985)

With Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

• Black Glory
  Black Glory
  Black Glory is a live album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in Munich 1971 and released on the Enja label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "Waldron is in excellent form.....
  
   (Enja Records)

With the London Jazz Composers Orchestra

• Double Trouble Two Featuring Irene Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
  
   and Pierre Favre (Intakt Records)

With Stefano Battaglia

Stefano Battaglia

Stefano Battaglia is an Italian classical and jazz pianist.He has played extensively on the international circuit, performing as a soloist with the European Youth Orchestra in Barcelona , and winning the "J.S...

• When We Were (Splasch Records)

With Paul Giger

Paul Giger

Paul Giger , is a Swiss violinist and composer. He plays contemporary classical music, jazz, and free improvised music, and specializes in extended techniques....

• Alpstein
  Alpstein (album)
  Alpstein is the second album by Swiss violinist Paul Giger recorded in 1990 and 1991 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Mark W. B...
  
   (ECM, 1991)

With Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...

 & Jon Balke

Jon Balke

Jon Balke is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer currently known for his Magnetic North Orchestra.He began with classical piano, but switched to blues at 12, though today he performs within several genres. At the age of 18 he joined Arild Andersen's quartet. By the mid-1980s he worked on his own...

• Mythscapes (Soul Note Records)

With Denis Levaillant

• Barium Circus (Nato Records)

With Yang Jing

• Two In One (Intakt Records)

With Andrea Centazzo

• Koans, Volume 1 (Ictus Records)
• Dialogues (Robi Droli/Newtone)