The Zurich Jazz Orchestra stands for first-class big band jazz and skillfully varies between mainstream and avant-garde, orchestral big band sound and explosive improvisations by the soloists. Especially for this evening, the ZJO has selected pieces from the immense Band Book, which are perfectly designed for the joy of playing and the groove of the […]

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Nils Wogram is artist in residence at the jazz club Moods from July 4th – 6th 2021. On July 5th 2021 he will perform together with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra. The programme is called “Work Smoothly” and is a Swiss premiere. Wogram’s intensive study of the possibilities and history of the big band has another […]

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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...

Schorn’s compositions and thus the sound of the orchestra have, if at all possible, become even richer, more colorful, more differentiated, but at the same time more powerful. The album is proof of the fact that the sound spectrum and the possibilities of a top-class big band are almost unlimited. And if there were limits, […]

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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...

Live stream at 8.30 pm The Europeans can confidently claim to be able to hold something against America, the country of origin, when it comes to jazz. A real heavy weight in this matter is the Sardinian Paolo Fresu. Shortly after his 60th birthday the lyrical trumpeter with the big tone and the fine ear […]

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On the fringe of his ZJO candidate concert in November 2019, Ed Partyka proposed a project with Thomas Gansch: After the ZJO has played exclusively existing programs with Gansch up to now, Partyka will arrange some compositions by Gansch for this evening and present them as world premieres. Partyka is internationally active and works as […]

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We’ve never played with an organ before! We are already looking forward to our end-of-year concert at the Jazzclub Moods with the internationally renowned Munich jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein. Dennerlein’s career has been extremely straightforward and determined: she got her first single-manual organ at the age of 11, and at 15, she was already playing […]

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Due to the new measures to contain the pandemic, it will no longer be possible to hold concerts with an audience until at least January 22, 2021. Nevertheless, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra will play at the traditional Christmas concert on December 17 – made possible by the Moods Jazz Club with its platform moods.digital. At […]

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TDue to the new measures to contain the pandemic, it will no longer be possible to hold concerts with an audience until at least January 22, 2021. Nevertheless, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra will play at the traditional Christmas concert on December 17 – made possible by the Moods Jazz Club with its platform moods.digital. At […]

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