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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...

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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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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In February, Karin Meier will return to continue the fruitful collaboration with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra that goes back many years. In addition to Karin’s original compositions, new interpretations of jazz standards and pop classics will be on the program, all arranged for the ZJO by Ed Partyka. The orchestra will perform in it’s expanded […]

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He’s almost 74. Robben Ford, an exiled Californian living in London with a big heart for all things blues. And yet he doesn’t just play simple three-chord music. He feels just as comfortable on a Strat as he does on a Tele or a Les Paul. On stage, he combines the musical knowledge of a […]

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We are breaking with the jazz routine and venturing into two of the most important Latin universes this evening: Brazil and Cuba. We start in Brazil, where we will hear soloists from the ZJO playing a wide variety of rhythms such as samba, bossa nova, and frevos. The second set will feature a musical premiere: […]

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“Female Composers Series” The program features music by female composers and arrangers. The first part includes music by Claudia Döffinger, Nikki Iles, Cinzia Catania, Carla Köllner, and Ursula Reicher. The second part focuses on a composer and singer with whom the Zurich Jazz Orchestra is collaborating for the first time: South Korean Song Yi Jeon. […]

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