Zurich Jazz Orchestra

Sunday
14. December Sun
14. Dec

Duke Ellingtons «The Nutcracker Suite»

In 1960, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn arranged their own virtuoso adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet “The Nutcracker” for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Klaus Henner Russius reads E. T. A. Hoffmann's “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” more...

Theater Rigiblick
Germaniastrasse 99
8044 Zürich
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Thursday
18. December Thu
18. Dec

Zurich Jazz Orchestra featuring Melissa Aldana (ts)

To mark the end of the year, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra presents Grammy-nominated Blue Note artist Melissa Aldana – one of the most innovative and independent jazz musicians on the international scene. Born in Santiago de Chile, the saxophonist comes from a family of musicians: her father and grandfather were both saxophonists. She began playing […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Thursday
22. January Thu
22. Jan

Zurich Jazz Orchestra playing Rob McConnell

Rob McConnell (1935 – 2010) was a Canadian valve trombonist, composer, and arranger. McConnell is best known for establishing and leading his Grammy award winning big band The Boss Brass, which he directed from 1967 to 1999. The big band music of Rob McConnell is solidly anchored in the jazz tradition but offers clever takes […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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30 years and still going strong

You could write the band’s history as a story of overcoming obstacles. In the case of the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, this would be the organizational struggle of keeping an almost 20-piece big band on track, finding stages that are large enough, and organizers who are not afraid of a lot of power. Or it could […]