Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Efrat Alony

Director

Vocals

Saxophon

Trumpet

Trombone

Tuba

Flugelhorn

Guitar

Piano

Bass

Drum Kit

«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.

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.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Claudia Döffinger

Percussion

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.

Collectif Medz Bazar

Clarinet

Violin

Moods & Jazzhane present

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.

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;.

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.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Yumi Ito

Leitung

Horn (Cornet)

Yumi Ito is not only a distinguished musician, but also an independent composer and singer who moves weightlessly and at the same time competently between jazz, art-pop, electronica, free improvisation and neo-classical music, generating a sound that comes across as fresh and often surprising. The musician, composer and arranger with Polish and Japanese roots navigates through the musical fields with concentration and precision, unwaveringly following her own path. Ed Partyka arranges the guest singer&#x27;s compositions for the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and its soloists. The music comes mainly from Yumi Ito&#x27;s critically acclaimed albums &quot;Stardust Crystals&quot; and &quot;Ekual&quot;.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Robben Ford

Robben Ford is one of the leading electric guitarists of today and feels at home in many different musical contexts. It so happens that the five-time Grammy nominee has played with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, John Scofield and many others, and can present an equally versatile repertoire. Over the past decades, Robben has released 30 albums as a bandleader and, in addition to his outstanding skills as a guitarist, has developed a highly individual style as a composer and singer. The repertoire for this concert consists of music arranged by Ed Partyka from Robben Ford&#x27;s older albums, but also the latest CDs &quot;Purple House&quot; and &quot;Pure&quot; will be quoted, so to speak.

Lincke – Menzi – Härtel

Hackbrett

Altfrentsche Besetzung – «Monk bis Moser»

On this evening you will hear unusual sounds in the area of tension between the oddball jazz of a Thelonious Monk and classical Appenzell string music in the style of the Moser family of musicians. The programme title is appropriately &quot;Monk to Moser&quot; and this will be played in the traditional Altfrentsch line-up consisting of violin, dulcimer and double bass. PS: &quot;Altfrentsch&quot;, a term rarely used today in the Appenzell dialect, goes back to the German expression &quot;altfränkisch&quot;. Deriving from the Middle High German &quot;altvrenkisch&quot; (&quot;in the manner of the old Franks&quot;), it means as much as &quot;old-fashioned&quot;, &quot;according to old custom&quot;.

Pius Baschnagel Quintett

Pius Baschnagel – «New Beginnings»

In many respects, Baschnagel’s second Carte Blanche evening is about new beginnings: escape from the oppressive Corona lethargy, the awakening from the hibernation and naturally about this new collaboration. The ambitious German trumpeter Lisa Buchholz, with whom Baschnagel became acquainted at Bujazzo kennen, and the young Russian saxophonist Victoria Mozalevskaya, in whose trio he plays, form the dazzling frontline of this collective put together for this evening. The whole is driven by an equally newly-bundled rhythm section with the newcomer Leandro Irarragorri, the internationally active Raffaele Bossard and the head of it all, Pius Baschnagel on the drums. We can really look forward to this combo! Quintet sound in monoculture and own compositions, which relate the emotion of release, of awakening, of confidence, of hope.

Athanas’ ContempArabic Ensemble

Quanun

Composition

 «Tarbaka Blues»

Egypt - Tunisia - Switzerland: The ContempArabic Jazz Ensemble has been touring North Africa and Europe for 25 years. In the process, they playfully mix influences of Arabic music with European jazz. At Moods, the ensemble presents their new CD &quot;Tabarka Blues&quot;, a refreshing anniversary programme and exciting dialogue across styles and cultures.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra «Brilliant Voices» feat. Ola Onabule

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.

Nils Fischer plays Fugees vs. Florian Egli plays Erykah Badu

Keyboards

With Hits Recycled, Pop and Rock hits are pushed through the Jazz mincer. Famous Jazz musicians play the hits of stars – and just as they like them! The two bands compete against each other in playing for the loudest applause, song for song, hit for hit, Jazz with fun!  With friendly support from the Zürcher Kantonalbank.

AKI: Lucia Cadotsch – Kit Downes – Phil Donkin – James Maddren

Berlin-based Swiss singer Lucia Cadotsch, leader of the bands SPEAK LOW and LIUN + The Science Fiction Band, meets London ECM artist Kit Downes, drummer James Maddren and bassist Phil Donkin. Together they explore their love of undiscovered songs in an intimate chamber music context. It is the continuum and deepening of their previous work together in Speak Low (with Kit as guest). This unique quartet presents well-known and yet-to-be-discovered songs, as well as original compositions.

Bureau Bureau

Vibraphon

Festival Finale

The two finalists will compete against each other for the victory. The first concert starts at 8:30 pm and the second at 9:45 pm. This will be followed by the award ceremony, including the announcement of the first-place winners of the ZKB Audience Award.

Louis Matute Large Ensemble

Fender-Rhodes E-Piano

Festival

Louis Matute is an exceptional electric guitar player. He is involved in a whole series of major projects. Matute is inspired by current forms of jazz and mixes them with elements of Latin American music. The result is a sound that is warm and rhythmic, but at the same time mysterious and melancholic.

Zurich 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 sound sculptures so unique. He skillfully operates between chamber music sounds and rich big band tradition. The music is dense, powerful and yet completely transparent. The CD begins with “Tango,” written one morning in a youth hostel in Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil. Not really a tango, but somehow it is, this tone poem oscillates between a miniature chamber music concerto for C-melody saxophone and a fast samba. With oriental flair and a feature for guitarist Theo Kapilidis, “Die Tochter des Tyrannen” continues – dedicated to a beauty in Crete. And as always with Schorn, you can hear the love of low notes and the fascination of the large ensemble sound and the groovy humor as well as the brilliant tuttis in this program. And in the last piece, “To My Beloved Ones,” a lyrical theme with a mystically luminous rapturous hue unfolds from the exact same C-melody saxophone upbeat as in “Eye of the Wind,” floating through the harmonies with orchestral blended sounds. “To My Beloved Ones” is, in a way, the parting gift of a wonderful collaboration.

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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