Nationality Swiss Style Jazz Record label Intakt Records | Occupation saxophonist, flutist Website costreiff.ch Albums Twin Lines | |
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Born 1959 Zurich, Switzerland Similar Irène Schweizer, Peter Schärli, Irène Schweizer & Omri Zi, Christian Weber, Jürg Wickihalder |
Co streiff russ johnson quartet live at kunsthaus glarus
Co Streiff (5 April 1959 in Zurich) is a Swiss jazz musician, who combines the elements of free jazz with the music of Africa. She is a saxophonist and flutist.
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She was educated at Conservatory with transverse flute as a main instrument and also at Jazz School St. Gallen with Saxophone. Then since 1983 she has lived as a freelance artist. Her first bands and projects were Kadesh and Tobende Ordnung (Raging Order). In 1986, she began her collaboration with Irène Schweizer. She appeared in the Canaille Festivals mostly with Lindsay Cooper and Joëlle Léandre. She took part in different projects of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 1988 until 1995. They make several long workshop tours in non-european countries (Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Benin, Ghana, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan). She has had an intensive collaboration with Kadash & The Nile Troup. Tommy Meier, Russ Johnson, Christian Weber and Fredi Flückiger belong to her sextet. She has performed with Hilaria Kramer, Béatrice Graf and Karoline Höfler in the quartet Ratruba. With Gabriela Friedli, she has led the quartet Objets Trouvés. This quartet published three albums until 2013.

Discography

Songs
Bea Be GoodTwin Lines · 2002
Five Dark DaysTwin Lines · 2002
For SabinaTwin Lines · 2002