Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre is a live album by pianist Irène Schweizer and drummer Pierre Favre.

[1][2][3][4][5] In an interview, Schweizer reflected on her long-term relationship with Favre, stating: "Playing with Pierre has an intuitive sureness... Because of our collaboration over decades, we have a broad basis of common musical experiences that of course are useful in our improvisation.

"[3] In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "the sheer musicality of this pair is staggering...

This is a topnotch live set that reveals piano and drum pairings are not always percussive pound-a-thons.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings described Favre as a "melodic" player, "moving round the kit much as [Schweizer] moves across the keyboard," and commented: "the level of interaction is such that one almost seems to be hearing a meta-instrument, a source of sound which is neither one voice nor the other, but a genuine synthesis of the two.