Zurich Jazz Orchestra performs Duke Ellington’s “The Nutcracker Suite,” conducted by Ed Partyka. Klaus Henner Russius reads E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker Tale” The time before Christmas opens one’s eyes to the most wondrous things: glittering Christmas forests, enchanted castles made of marzipan or mechanical toys that are miraculously alive. But the pre-Christmas season also opens […]

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Robben Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, particularly known for his blues playing, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts. A five-time Grammy nominee, he has played with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Michael […]

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Zurich Jazz Orchestra Vocal Artistry Series British-Nigerian singer and songwriter Ola Onabulé has always been interested in crossing cultural and musical boundaries. With his emotion and virtuosity, his three-and-a-half octave baritone is the perfect instrument to do just that. His poignant storytelling, bringing to life his Nigerian roots, his Western upbringing, his family life, and […]

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Linda Porter, scion of a very wealthy and distinguished family from Virginia, was married to the American composer and songwriter Cole Porter for 34 years. In the roughly three and a half decades of their life together, she lead a luxurious high society lifestyle as an elegant prominent sociali […] more...

Linda Porter, scion of a very wealthy and distinguished family from Virginia, was married to the American composer and songwriter Cole Porter for 34 years. In the roughly three and a half decades of their life together, she lead a luxurious high society lifestyle as an elegant prominent sociali […] more...

Zurich Jazz Orchestra Vocal Artistry Series Viviane de Farias’ vocals are rhythmically strong and her voice is very versatile, soft and bright at the same time and contains just the right amount of lyrical emotionality – everything we love about Música Popular Brasileira. The singer was born in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro and grew up […]

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«Miles oder die Pendeluhr aus Montreux» is an homage to a jazz genius, a man suffering from loneliness and prejudice. It tells about the beauty of Juliette Gréco, Swiss watches, of favourite chords and beloved people. more...

Zurich Jazz Orchestra Vocal Artistry Series After many years of collaboration, we would like to welcome singer and pianist Raphael Jost at the Jazzclub Moods. Thanks not only to his successful “Swinging Christmas” performances, the singer has become a fixture in our program. Raphael Jost has an unerring sense of interpretation, time and timbre and […]

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In Meilen, under the direction of Ed Partyka, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra presents at 7 pm and 8.30 pm a classical jazz program with two top-class voices: Sandra Studer and Raphael Jost. The two met in 2015 at the ZJO-Theater Rigiblick co-production “My Life with Frank Sinatra” and got along so well that even after […]

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After we made the wonderful discovery in December that the orchestra and audience collectively loved our version of Ellington’s “Nutcracker Suite”, we have decided to continue our exploration of Ellington’s music by presenting two more suites from the same period of his career. The late 1950’s and early 1960’s were some of the most fruitful […]

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