Thursday
14. March
2024
Thu
14. Mar
2024
20:30
20:30

Almost exactly ten years have passed since Thomas Gansch’s first appearance with the ZJO. Today he is a good friend of the band and a favorite of the ZJO audience. The basic concept of the evening therefore remains the same: musical fireworks, fun, unconventional, crazy. Gansch and the ZJO have already performed everything imaginable together: […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Friday
9. February
2024
Fri
9. Feb
2024
20:30
20:30

*** Unfortunately, Theo Bleckmann had to cancel his performance on February 9 due to illness. Fortunately, Matthias Knoche from Berlin has agreed to interpret the Georg Kreisler songs. Many thanks to Matthias for standing in! We wish Theo a speedy recovery! So it remains an evening full of fine humor, biting satire and fat big […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Thursday
18. January
2024
Thu
18. Jan
2024
20:30
20:30

Gil Evans’ «New Bottle Old Wine» The Zurich Jazz Orchestra will present the complete program of the original arrangements of Gil Evans’ classic album “New Bottle Old Wine” from 1958, with alto saxophone soloist Karolina Strassmayer interpreting the parts originally played by Cannonball Adderley. Compositions such as “King Porter Stomp”, “St. Louis Blues” and “Round […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Thursday
21. December
2023
Thu
21. Dec
2023
20:30
20:30

If little more than a year passes before the ZJO invites a guest for the second time, the premiere must have been a complete success: In November 2022, British-Nigerian vocalist and songwriter Ola Onabulé performed with the ZJO for the first time, and now he’s visiting again. Especially since the collaboration between Ola and Ed […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Sunday
10. December
2023
Sun
10. Dec
2023
18:00
18:00

Klaus Henner Russius reads E. T. A. Hoffmann’s «Das Märchen vom Nussknacker» The Nutcracker Suite was Ellington’s first album-length project dedicated to the work of another composer – so it fits perfectly with our seasonal theme, the art of arranging. But that’s not the only thing that makes this recording special in his discography. Looking […]

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Theater Rigiblick
Germaniastrasse 99
8044 Zürich
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Thursday
30. November
2023
Thu
30. Nov
2023
20:30
20:30

«Joseph Bowie’s Big Band Funk – The Legendary Music of Defunkt» Joseph Bowie is the brother of big band musician Byron Bowie and Art Ensemble of Chicago co-founder Lester Bowie. Joe, who had previously worked as a sideman for various jazz musicians of the 1970s, formed the punk-funk-jazz group Defunkt in 1978. The band released […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Wednesday
8. November
2023
Wed
8. Nov
2023
20:30
20:30

Claudia Döffinger was born in Baden-Württemberg in 1989. She started playing the piano at the age of eight, and at 13 she played in her first jazz band. Consequently, she always moved to wherever there was something to learn, study and perform: to Lucerne to study jazz piano, to the University of Music and Performing […]

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The Bird's Eye Jazz Club
Kohlenberg 20
4051 Basel
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Thursday
26. October
2023
Thu
26. Oct
2023
20:30
20:30

Cinzia Catania (*1988) grew up in Lenzburg, Aargau, in a very artistic environment. The voice of the young Swiss singer and composer is unique – crystal clear and yet warm and soft. Light as a feather and with rhythmic precision, she sings bossa nova and swing and easily masters technically and harmonically complex jazz compositions. […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Friday
6. October
2023
Fri
6. Oct
2023
20:30
20:30

Walther K. Lang is proof that it is never too late to pursue your passion. As a young musician, he dreamed of becoming a jazz composer, but – this sounds familiar to many – the obligations of his profession kept him from doing so. Until now. Now he has written a full-length big band program. […]

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Musikklub Mehrspur
Förrlibuckstrasse 109
8005 Zürich
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Thursday
28. September
2023
Thu
28. Sep
2023
20:00
20:00

It was this unerring timing and incredible drive that made the Count Basie Orchestra the epitome of swinging joie de vivre. The 1960s was a fruitful decade of performances and recordings for Count Basie and his orchestra, and the album “Kansas City Suite” kicked it off. The 10-movement suite was composed by Benny Carter specifically […]

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