Feminist Improvising Group
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The Feminist Improvising Group were a five- to eight-piece international free improvising avant-garde jazz and experimental music ensemble formed in London in 1977 by Scottish vocalist Maggie Nicols a
The Feminist Improvising Group, October 1977 L–R: Corinne Liensol, Maggie Nicols, Georgie Born, Lindsay Cooper, Cathy Williams
Irène Schweizer
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Irène Schweizer was a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist.
Feminist Improvising Group
…Rome, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Reykjavík. When Cooper and Born were performing with Henry Cow in Zürich in early 1978, Cooper invited Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer to join FIG. English filmmaker Sally Potter, who played saxophone and sang, joined the group in April 1978. Dutch trombonist Annemarie Roelofs, English…
Schweizer performing in 2014