“To My Beloved Ones” concludes the CD trilogy with Steffen Schorn. The joint journey began seven years ago with “Eye of the Wind”, composed on Schorn’s train journey to Zurich for his first concert as musical director of the ZJO. Steffen Schorn once again pulls out all the stops that make his sound language and […]

The title of the concert is derived from the composition “Little Things” by Yumi Ito, which Ed Partyka arranged for the Zurich Jazz Orchestra especially for this concert evening. And when Ed Partyka, arranges, he takes the word “big” in “big band” literally and stocks up the ZJO with five trumpets, tuba and French horn. […]

Thomas Gansch and Ed Partyka have known each other for ages. They met in 1999 at the Vienna Art Orchestra, and later Ed Partyka also played in Thomas Gansch’s band “Gansch & Roses.” “We’ve known each other for so long, but until now I’ve never had the opportunity to arrange his music for jazz orchestra. […]

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

There has never been an organ at the Zurich Jazz Orchestra until now! For the traditional end-of-year concert of the Big Band, we are looking forward to the internationally renowned Munich jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein. Dennerlein’s career has been extremely straightforward and determined: at the age of 11 she got her first single-manual organ, and […]

The ZJO is thrilled to be back at Mehrspur – and even more so as part of the inaugural “Mehrspur Jazz Week: Local Cats!” New York is home to some of the most important orchestras, composers and arrangers in the history of jazz. From Duke Ellington and his orchestra at the Cotton Club in 1927 […]

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 […]

The Zurich Jazz Orchestra stands for first-class big band jazz and skillfully varies between mainstream and avant-garde. For this evening, the ZJO has selected pieces from the immense band book, which demonstrate the joy of playing and the groove of the big band. The audience can expect big band classics with a good pinch of […]

Ed Partyka’s tenure as musical director of the ZJO begins with a program of his own compositions and arrangements, with a journey through 100 years of jazz and pop music history, with a mixture of genres, styles and source material, filtered and shaped by the new director as a person and as a musician. The […]

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 […]