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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

“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 […]

For the past ten years, Ed Partyka has been collaborating with and arranging music for outstanding Brazilian female vocalists. We are very pleased to invite the extraordinary Brazilian singer Viviane de Farias to Jazzclub Moods for this evening. She is from Ipanema and grew up in Brazil and Los Angeles. As a teenager, she received […]