Yarima Blanco Y Son Latino

Vocals

Trumpet

Guitar

Bass

Percussion

Yarima Blanco is an outstanding Tres Cubano player and one of the few outside of Cuba to master this unique three-stringed instrument. With her own septet, Son Latino, she combines various Cuban styles with Latin American influences. Her electrifying performances showcase not only her impressive technique on the tres, but also her powerful voice and charisma. Blanco perfected her skills during several years of study in Cuba and quickly became a sought-after artist, also making waves on the international jazz scene with the orchestra ANACAONA. Pancho Amat, international master of the tres cubanos, describes Blanco&#x27;s talent as exceptional. Before and after the concert DJ Saltho invites you to dance.

James Brandon Lewis

Saxophon

Drum Kit

&quot;A saxophonist who embodies and transcends tradition,&quot; wrote the New York Times about James Brandon Lewis. In just over a decade, he has become one of the most celebrated young jazz artists. An artist who has carved out a niche for himself with his unique blend of gospel, blues and R&amp;B with the stirring sax explorations of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Sonny Rollins. His performance coincides with the release of his new ANTI Records recording, &#x27;Eye and I&#x27;, which features him in a trio with electric bassist Josh Werner and drummer Chad Taylor.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Efrat Alony

Director

Trombone

Tuba

Flugelhorn

Piano

«Vocal Artistry Series»

Efrat Alony and Ed Partyka have been working together for almost 20 years and have recorded with the Sunday Night Orchestra and the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra. They have also performed together with the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the HR Big Band. The singer, bandleader and composer, who now lives in Germany, began her music studies in Haifa and completed them in Boston. This night&#x27;s programme is just as international. It consists of modern Jewish folk songs and original compositions by Efrat Alony, arranged by Ed Partyka for jazz orchestra and the warm, sometimes gentle-melancholic, sometimes determined voice of Efrat Alony.

Malia

Keyboards

Malia 

«The Garden Of Eve»

It&#x27;s been a long time since a contemporary artist has paid such beautiful tribute to the blues. A style that deserves to be dusted off a bit. With &quot;The Garden Of Eve&quot;, Echo Jazz winner Malia releases a new masterpiece dedicated to the blues in all its facets. It is an organic album produced by real musicians in a very lively mood. And even if the blues has lost its most faithful missionary since the death of the late B.B. King, Malia and &quot;The Garden Of Eve&quot; offer a nice rejuvenation that gives a modern touch to this genre and will enchant new groups of blues lovers.

Hely

«Plode»

A battered parlour piano, next to it a simply equipped drum set: that&#x27;s all Hely need. The young Zurich duo of pianist Lucca Fries and drummer Jonas Ruther start their pieces from nowhere and let them end in somewhere. The audience closes its eyes, opens its ears wide and floats away into inner spaces or worlds of thought. With driving rhythms and intoxicating sounds, the two musicians play themselves and their audience into ecstasy. What this acoustic duo creates in terms of sound intensity is extraordinary - and brings joy: anticipation for their new album &quot;Plode&quot;, which will be released in April 2023 on Nik Bärtsch&#x27;s boutique label Ronin Rhythm Records.

Sun Mi Hong Quintet

One of the leading emerging talents on the Amsterdam scene, Korean-born Sun-Mi has made a reputation for her inexhaustible creativity and energy. Her music ranges from moments of pure passion to invigorating catharsis, demanding attention and focused listening. During every performance, her band explores its own boundaries, constantly seeking new ways to make a typical jazz quintet sound decidedly atypical, fresh and unique.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Thomas Gansch

The long-standing and very fruitful partnership between Thomas Gansch and the Zurich Jazz Orchestra will continue this year. In addition to repertoire from the past, there will also be new arrangements written by Ed Partyka especially for this concert, presenting Thomas Gansch as a composer and multi-instrumental soloist, but also as an amiable &#x27;enfant terrible&#x27;. One thing is certain: the wonderful musicians of the ZJO will provide some musical surprises. It is also certain that the band and the audience will experience an unforgettable evening.

Marie Krüttli Trio

The Marie Krüttli Trio impresses, is exciting, colourful and daring. With a mature tone, clear aesthetics and beguiling virtuosity, the Swiss woman manoeuvres herself and her band colleagues through intricate rhythms and interwoven chains of chords. The melodies shimmer groovily, the players appear charming and with a lot of enigmatic wit, always deeply rooted in the European piano tradition and influenced by the sound ideals of Stravinsky and Debussy.

Evelinn Trouble Orchestra

Violin

Viola

Cello

Evelinn Trouble

One year after her fifth studio album &quot;Longing Fever&quot; won the &#x27;Indie Suisse Album Of The Year Award&#x27;, Evelinn Trouble is back on tour with her band. Evelinn Trouble, known for her creative restlessness, her virtuoso voice and her idiosyncratic songwriting has added an exciting pop work to her discography with &quot;Longing Fever&quot; - a break with her psychedelic era but still unmistakably Trouble. It&#x27;s an exciting album that traverses highs and lows with fervour, ranging from Beatlesque love songs to euphoric melodies buoyed by distorted hip-hop. Unexpectedly, new sounds of string instruments join the otherwise dark sound universe of the singer: a string trio expands the band to the &quot;Evelinn Trouble Orchestra&quot;.

Carebender

Carebender is a Berlin-based vocal group that embraces experimental music, using vocal compositions to play a daring game with beauty and abstract art form. Their first album &quot;What We Talk About&quot; was released in March 2022 on BlauBlauRecords and is described as an acappella moment against anger, the rage that lurks in the stomach and always erupts at the wrong moment. At Moods, Carebender will present these songs to a live audience for the first time.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Claudia Döffinger

German composer and pianist Claudia Döffinger presents her compositions and arrangements together with Australian singer Kristin Berardi with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra. Claudia Döffinger&#x27;s love for the sound of big bands is palpable through her fresh approach: she combines experimental sounds with dense chords. In this way, hip-hop, indie and funk merge organically with her works and yet sound entirely new. Claudia Döffinger is the winner of the Downbeat Student Music Award, won 1st prize at the Helsinki Jazz Composition Contest and 3rd prize at the Composition Contest Katowice. In addition to jazz standards and earlier original compositions, music from Kristin Berardi&#x27;s new album &quot;The Light and the Dark&quot; will also be heard in big band arrangements.

آبان |Aban Ensemble

Moods & Jazzhane present

This is a first at the Moods Jazzclub. Nowruz, is the celebration of the arrival of spring and the new year according to ancient Persian calendars. Nowruz, meaning «new day», is an ancestral festivity marking the first day of spring and the renewal of nature. It includes rituals, ceremonies, and cultural events, as well as the enjoyment of a special meal with loved ones. New clothes are worn, visits are made to family and friends, and gifts, especially for children, are exchanged. Celebrated for over 3,000 years in the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and other regions, it promotes values of peace and solidarity between generations and within families as well as reconciliation.The Persian trio Aban Ensemble with Mitra Behpoori (Tar, Oud, Vocals), Sara Hasti (Kamancheh, Vocals) and Nora Thiele (Percussion, Daf, Rahmentrommel and Tombak) from Germany and Collectif-Medz-Bazar from Paris will be with us. Look forward to a folk festival of Persian dastgah music and an evening where Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic and Persian song traditions meet explosive rhythms and pop elements.

Collectif Medz Bazar

Clarinet

Each musician in this cross-cultural urban-diaspora quintet is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Their message is one of emancipation and fraternity, their music is imbued with folk traditions, old and new. Singing in their mother tongues (Turkish, Armenian, English and French), they tell the story of an inner home, accustomed to exile, cultural blending, and renewal. Their 4th album, Insanistan, will take you from the mountains of the Lost Land to a place where languages, thoughts, and dreams can live together, retracing the road to hope, courage and the unknown. Created in Paris in 2012, Collectif Medz Bazar has traveled extensively through Europe and performs regularly in North America and in the Middle East. Fervent lovers of gatherings and exchange, at ease with all audiences, Medz Bazar&#x27;s musicians perform with the same enthusiasm in major cities like New York, Diyaberkir, Montreal, Yerevan, and Berlin, as in remote villages reaching from the Cévennes mountains in France to the Munzur valley in Anatolia.

Silvan Strauss Ensemble

&quot;One of the most exciting and versatile jazz musicians in Hamburg&quot;. With this justification, Silvan Strauss, who comes from Allgäu, won the Hamburg Jazz Prize in 2021. Whether in his own band TOYTOY or as a sideman in bands like Maria João, Omer Klein or Giovanni Weiss, as a guest drummer of the NDR Bigband or in the Lisa Wulff Quartet, in which he has been a permanent member for eight years, Silvan Strauss stands out everywhere. With his Tiktok videos, the young German reaches an audience of millions. His video &quot;Latte Art&quot; alone, in which he creates music with a small milk jug on the basin, generated more than 1.9 million views. Now Silvan Strauss comes to Moods with his ensemble. The afternoon before the concert, Silvan Strauss gave a masterclass that you can watch for free. You can find it here: https://www.moods.ch/en/streaming/masterclass-mit-silvan-strauss-2023-03-16

Masterclass mit Silvan Strauss

Vom Traum Drummer zu werden – kostenlos

Silvan Strauss is an award-winning jazz drummer and producer. He has attracted a lot of attention on social media due to his creative approach to music and his skills on the drums. In his masterclass he gives insights into his work. The topics will be beats, loops and phrasing but also how he implements produced beats live and vice versa. There will be the opportunity to ask him questions and learn about the process of creating his album &quot;FACING&quot;.

Šuma Čovjek

Support Act: Blind Boy De Vita

Šuma Čovjek dispel the clichés of classic Balkan pop. The Swiss with a migration background sing in French, Croatian and Arabic. The languages flow so harmoniously into each other that you have the feeling you understand them all. This is certainly not least due to the lovingly arranged songs: melancholy ballads, rhythmic pop-rock pieces and rap tracks, peppered with furious brass sections.

Christoph Grab's BLOSSOM

Albumtaufe

The compositions for BLOSSOM were created in the spring of 2020. Christoph Grab was not looking for these compositions, they came to him in irregular intervals during the first Corona lockdown, mostly unasked - blossoming like flowers spreading hope again after the winter. He later realized that these new compositions had much to do with his moods during the lockdown, so that these pieces unintentionally became a kind of diary of his lockdown period. According to the saxophonist, he couldn&#x27;t get the flower metaphor out of his head, and so the new program is now called &quot;BLOSSOM&quot;. Furthermore, the compositions (which were originally written without names) have also received English flower names, such as &quot;Feverfew&quot;, &quot;Love in the mist&quot;, &quot;Bleeding heart&quot;, &quot;Mad dog skullcap&quot;, &quot;African daisy&quot; or &quot;Johnny jump up&quot;. The music of BLOSSOM means of transportation for stories and emotions, an adventurous music full of warmth, built on friendship and mutual support, for a band that becomes a unit, a breathing organism.

Sarah Chaksad Large Ensemble

Flute

Basset Horn

Ventilposaune

Sarah Chaksad surprises with compositions for a new, 13-member band: the saxophonist and composer, born in Wohlen in 1983, has carefully assembled her wide-awake Large Ensemble with exquisite German, French and Swiss musicians, a Norwegian and a Brazilian. It is a mixture of friends with whom she already works successfully in her other bands and new ones, whom she has chosen as consciously as intuitively clever - and for whom to write, that can be heard well in the music, great desire and a lot of imagination were ideal prerequisites. Both in the line-up and in the composing process, the idea of how the ensemble as a whole should sound and what music could be realized with the instrumental possibilities was central. However, Sarah then wrote the pieces exactly for the excellent musicians of her Large Ensemble and, with flute, tuba and basset horn - the &quot;tenor clarinet&quot; - additionally for instruments that had never belonged to her bands before. The result is again astonishing and, although the composer&#x27;s signature remains clearly audible, differs from earlier projects. The music is more open and - not only on &quot;Lost&quot; - also more risky, without ever losing flow and drive or intensity. Sarah creates with her large ensemble a richness of colors and moods as never before. In addition, she skillfully builds sound spaces within her pieces again and again for individual instruments and combinations, for dialogues and wonderful solos. She makes sophisticated use of the variety and flexibility that the new band offers her. On her musical journey, the bandleader is, figuratively speaking, sometimes traveling by bus, sometimes by tandem - and always with brilliant musicians who, for all their enjoyable, thrilling art, take us together on an adventurous and in the best way entertaining journey.

Sababa5

The earthquake that struck south-eastern Turkey, the Kurdish areas and Syria has left countless people in distress. Our thoughts are with the survivors, friends and relatives of the earthquake victims. We wish everyone much strength and want to help: Therefore, we will collect donations at the concerts and forward them to selected NGOs. Sababa5 is what the Psychedelic Music Explosion series stands for! That is, irregular rhythms, disco grooves, psychedelia, funk and their synthesis with Western pop from the 70s, rediscovered and reinterpreted in the 21st century. Sababa5 play a modern interpretation of Mizrahi music, a genre originally played in Israel by Syrian, Moroccan or Iraqi Jews and includes stylistic elements from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. A mix that is definitely very danceable!

Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou

Qraqeb

Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou (the daughters of Timbuktu) represent a new generation of young women Gnawa performers, breaking new ground in a traditionally patriarchal realm. Asmâa Hamzaoui assimilated the Gnawa musical tradition from a young age through her father, renowned musician Rachid Hamzaoui, learning to play the guembri (three-string lute) from an early age and later accompanying him at celebrations. She formed Bnat Timbuktu in 2012, gradually winning over audiences, until their breakthrough invitation to the Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira in 2017. Their taboo-busting performance, and jamming with Fatoumata Diawara, won them invitations to major festivals in Europe and the USA, even without a recording to their name. Asmâa still comes up against opposition from some Gnawa traditionalists but as she says: “They can talk, but here I am working and they’re just talking.”

Zurich Jazz Orchestra «Brilliant Voices» feat. Ola Onabule

Leitung

Horn (Cornet)

Zurich Jazz Orchestra Vocal Artistry Series

British-Nigerian singer and songwriter Ola Onabulé has always been interested in crossing cultural and musical boundaries. His three-and-a-half octave baritone is the perfect instrument to do so. Al Jarreau has been a major influence on his singing and composing style. Today, Ola is at home in jazz, R&amp;B and soul, but also in pop, and is in great demand as an artist worldwide. The programme consists of Ed Partyka&#x27;s arrangements of Ola&#x27;s original compositions, but also of new arrangements that the bandleader has written especially for this evening and the soloists of the ZJO.

Jazz

Soul / Blues / Funk

Rap / R'n'B

Pop / Rock / Singer / Songwriter

Jazz Modern Creative

Jazz Experimental

Global Sounds

Electronic / Party

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آبان |Aban Ensemble

Moods & Jazzhane present

Collectif Medz Bazar

Moods & Jazzhane present

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Vom Traum Drummer zu werden – kostenlos

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