Friday
6. October
2023
Fri
6. Oct
2023
20:30
20:30

Walther K. Lang is proof that it is never too late to pursue your passion. As a young musician, he dreamed of becoming a jazz composer, but – this sounds familiar to many – the obligations of his profession kept him from doing so. Until now. Now he has written a full-length big band program. […]

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Musikklub Mehrspur
Förrlibuckstrasse 109
8005 Zürich
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Thursday
26. October
2023
Thu
26. Oct
2023
20:30
20:30

Cinzia Catania (*1988) grew up in Lenzburg, Aargau, in a very artistic environment. The voice of the young Swiss singer and composer is unique – crystal clear and yet warm and soft. Light as a feather and with rhythmic precision, she sings bossa nova and swing and easily masters technically and harmonically complex jazz compositions. […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Wednesday
8. November
2023
Wed
8. Nov
2023
20:30
20:30

Claudia Döffinger was born in Baden-Württemberg in 1989. She started playing the piano at the age of eight, and at 13 she played in her first jazz band. Consequently, she always moved to wherever there was something to learn, study and perform: to Lucerne to study jazz piano, to the University of Music and Performing […]

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The Bird's Eye Jazz Club
Kohlenberg 20
4051 Basel
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Thursday
30. November
2023
Thu
30. Nov
2023
20:30
20:30

«Joseph Bowie’s Big Band Funk – The Legendary Music of Defunkt» Joseph Bowie is the brother of big band musician Byron Bowie and Art Ensemble of Chicago co-founder Lester Bowie. Joe, who had previously worked as a sideman for various jazz musicians of the 1970s, formed the punk-funk-jazz group Defunkt in 1978. The band released […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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Sunday
10. December
2023
Sun
10. Dec
2023
18:00
18:00

Klaus Henner Russius reads E. T. A. Hoffmann’s «Das Märchen vom Nussknacker» The Nutcracker Suite was Ellington’s first album-length project dedicated to the work of another composer – so it fits perfectly with our seasonal theme, the art of arranging. But that’s not the only thing that makes this recording special in his discography. Looking […]

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Theater Rigiblick
Germaniastrasse 99
8044 Zürich
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Thursday
21. December
2023
Thu
21. Dec
2023
20:30
20:30

If little more than a year passes before the ZJO invites a guest for the second time, the premiere must have been a complete success: In November 2022, British-Nigerian vocalist and songwriter Ola Onabulé performed with the ZJO for the first time, and now he’s visiting again. Especially since the collaboration between Ola and Ed […]

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Jazzclub Moods
Schiffbaustrasse 6
8005 Zürich
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