Helveticus (Blaser, Känzig, Humair)

Album Release «Our Way»

Three Swiss jazz musicians from three different generations: Drummer Daniel Humair, bassist Heiri Känzig and trombonist Samuel Blaser form together the trio &quot;Helveticus&quot;. Founded in 2020, the band is now on tour with their second album &quot;Our Way&quot; on which they remain true to their concept: the repertoire includes original compositions, jazz standards and interpretations of Swiss folk songs from different parts of the country.

Trombone

Bass

Drum Kit

JazzBaragge Wednesday Jam

The JazzBaragge Wednesday Jam offers an important platform for the Swiss jazz jam scene. After the musical opening of the jam band, lively and exciting sound conversations begin between musicians who spontaneously meet on stage, reflecting the diversity of jazz in all its facets. The JazzBaragge Wednesday Jam is supported by the non-profit association JazzBaragge. There is no presale for JazzBaragge, only box office.

Guitar

KNOBIL

Album Release «Knobisous»

Knobil is a French-language vocal jazz project by Lausanne-based double bassist, singer and composer Louise Knobil. Inspired by Esperanza Spalding, Charles Mingus and Oscar Pettiford, she presents her compositions together with Chloé Marsigny on bass clarinet and Vincent Andreae on drums in a style somewhere between singer-songwriter, post-bop and glittering jazz. This time Louise Knobil has her second EP «Knobisous» (2024) with her, a musical diary, in which she deals with topics such as polyamory, break-ups, laundry, queer coming-out and the systemic patriarchy. 

Vocals

Composition

Bass Clarinet

Klaus Koenig – Seven Things

Album Release «From Major to Minor»

Klaus Koenig has worked as a sound engineer at Radio Studio Zurich since the 1960s and founded the legendary Jazz Live Trio with Peter Frei and Peter Schmidlin. In this formation, he accompanied soloists such as Johnny Griffin, Dexter Gordon, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton and many more in over 100 live broadcasts. After a 15-year break due to illness and cautious beginnings to revive his legendary Jazz Live Trio with young musicians, Klaus Koenig decided to bring in two wind players. This is how the quintet Seven Things was formed in 2013. Their first album Piazza Rotonda received the highest number of five stars in Jazz&#x27;N&#x27;More. This was followed by the recordings Seven Things We Always Wanted to Know and Kings And Illusion, which was awarded all five stars in the NZZ am Sonntag, as was its successor Dark With Excessive Bright. On October 13, 2024, Klaus Koenig will not only celebrate his 88th birthday at Moods, but also launch his fifth album From Major to Minor. The ideal opportunity to toast this impressive career.

Trumpet

Saxophon

Piano

Afrobeats Explosion

The Afrobeats scene has virtually exploded in recent years, which is also reflected in the lively party scene that has developed around this genre. At the forefront from the beginning: &quot;Afrobeats Explosion&quot; at Moods. From its origins with Fela Kuti in the 70s to Wizkid – get ready for a special kind of dance explosion!

Benin International Musical

The Benin International Musical combines traditional rhythms and songs from the voodoo culture with electronic melodies, trip-hop grooves, hip-hop and rock from Benin&#x27;s trendy club scene. With their project, the collective aims to revive the diverse musical heritage of their ancestors and make it accessible to a wide audience. The traditional voodoo culture, which was spread in the wake of slavery, may be unknown to many, but it laid the foundations for musical movements such as jazz, blues, salsa and hip-hop. A groovy homage to a rich cultural history! Before and after the concert, DJ Voilà Tim will play a selection of African grooves. Supported by the SüdKulturFonds.

Percussion

Ebi Soda

Ebi Soda, an up-and-coming quintet from Brighton, is shaking up the UK jazz scene with a fresh, industrial sound. Their music is the result of long jam sessions in shabby studio apartments, reflecting the greyness of British streets and the dazzling influences of the internet. With their hard beats and an atmosphere that is more reminiscent of raves than classic jazz, they turn traditional norms on their head. The only constant is their love of experimentation. With this event, we are participating in «Nightlife in Solidarity», a month-long fundraiser for migrants.

Keyboards

La Sonora Mazurén

La Sonora Mazurén are the latest representatives of Bogotá&#x27;s lively alternative music scene. The seven musicians are influenced by traditional rhythms and sounds from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru and enrich them with synths and electric guitar. This is how they have developed their very own sound, which can be described as trippy cumbia, psychedelic chicha or African fuzz. A must for lovers of bands like the Meridian Brothers and for anyone curious to discover the new Tropsychedelica sound of Colombia. Supported by the SüdKulturFonds.

Buzz (Boss Hi-Fi)

Warm Up & Afterparty

BUZZ needs no introduction. 16 Tons: fantastic records, beautiful furniture. Boss Hi-Fi: best reggae DJs He will play one of his rare cumbia sets after La Sonora. ¡Fuego!

Accordion

E-Gitarre

Peter Evans EXTRA feat. Petter Eldh & Jim Black

Bassist Petter Eldh, drummer Jim Black and trumpeter and composer Peter Evans have known each other for several years. What the three of them have in common is their desire not only to use conventional parameters for improvisation, but also to experiment with those that are not usual and commonplace - such as timbre, dynamics or form and structure. Evans, Eldh and Black also have a very specific idea of how the playing of improvised music should be organised and how the result should sound. Evans&#x27; compositions open up new spaces for the spontaneity of free improvisation and the sensitivity of chamber music expression and also integrate Eldh&#x27;s and Black&#x27;s imaginative use of electronic music.

BALKAN MOODS

Theodosii Spassov, Atanas Ourkouzounov, Dimitar Ivanov, George Vassilev, Irina-Kalina Goudeva

Balkan Moods is a group of five renowned soloists from Bulgaria centred around the kaval player Theodosii Spassov. The instrumentalist and composer is known for his virtuoso and innovative playing on the traditional kaval flute - one of the oldest instruments in Europe - and for his ability to combine different genres. The love of cross-genre music has also brought this quintet together: Their repertoire is made up of works by contemporary composers from Bulgaria and Serbia, combining traditional Balkan music, classical music and jazz. 

Kaval

Chris Wiesendanger Large Ensemble

Pianist and composer Chris Wiesendanger&#x27;s latest band project is an orchestra and chamber music ensemble in one - various smaller ensembles alternate and regroup to accompany solos, to change textures and orchestration. The project «Great Drum Booms» juxtaposes composition with improvisation in an unpredictable and fluid way, making each concert a unique event. Scenes change, stories develop, jumping from groove to sound, from world to world.

Tuba

K.O.S Crew Dancehall Mood

Party

Dancehall Mood is the monthly reggae and dancehall party at Moods. Like on every first Saturday of the month, the K.O.S crew will make the Moods club cooking with hot riddims. This promises an evening full of dancehall hits and reggae rarities, perfectly tuned to the respective audience and immaculately presented by the K.O.S crew and their guest.

Malia

The singer from East African Malawi has always been a moving storyteller. But stylistically, Malia has always changed and developed. «Black Orchid» (2011), an album dedicated to Nina Simone that won her the Echo Jazz Award, was followed by the electronic album «Convergence» (2024), produced by Boris Blank (Yello). With «Malawi Blues» (2016), she then dedicated herself to the traditional Kwela sounds of her native Malawi, followed by «Ripples» (2018), a jazz album, and finally «The Garden Of Eve» (2020), which was dedicated to the blues in all its facets. The singer transcends musical boundaries with ease and is able to inspire her audience time and time again with her captivating stage presence. Supported by the SüdKulturFonds.

Style Bakery feat. Sulaya / Cali P / Keza

Hip Hop Zoo, Style Bakery & Moods present

A superb live band meets renowned MCs and vocalists for a freestyle show: that&#x27;s the Style Bakery! On these intimate but energetic evenings, unpredictable, unique musical moments between the guests and the collective around Flo Reichle, Toni Schiavano, Jonny Ive and Pablo have been created for five years.

Host

CunninLynguists

The advance sale has ended. Tickets are still available at the box office (from 19:30) There has never been an anomaly in hip-hop quite like the southern trio CunninLynguists. Sampling genres from psych-rock to blues, New Romantic to polka, they have been musically compared to UGK and Atmosphere in the same breath. CunninLynguists have eschewed categories, boxes and labels for 16 years, 5 albums, 3 compilations, 2 mixtapes &amp; 3 solo releases. Backed with gritty beats, quality rhymes and 808 thump, the ‘Lynguists recapture the soul in southern hip-hop. Kno, hailing from Georgia and, has been described as “one of the top loop-miners east of the Mississippi” by URB Magazine. He produced the majority of the group’s discography. He released a solo album in 2010 entitled Death Is Silent &amp; instrumental release Bones in 2016. Born in Versailles, Kentucky, Deacon is also an established producer, having produced for the likes of KRS-One and more. Deacon released a solo album in 2015 entitled Peace or Power. Lexington-born Natti is the third and final piece of the CunninLynguists’ puzzle. After turning to music in the early 2000’s, the KY native’s gravely drawl and streetwise. Natti’s solo endeavor Still Motion was released in 2013. With this event, we are participating in «Nightlife in Solidarity», a month-long fundraiser for migrants.

Steamboat Switzerland

Lucas Niggli – GLUT1

This is a band that has become a brand. A trio of musicians who think with their guts and feel with their brains. What they also have in common is improvisation - and being tough. Tightrope walkers, daredevils, hasbaras, troublemakers, drunken boys. Kamikaze pilots. The openness of their rigour and the playfulness of their unleashing make them the Houdinis of the tricky, the berserkers of performance. Here the stage, there the audience - but the spark is immediate. What is on offer here is hypertrophic, energetic music. Hot and fertile. Steamboat Switzerland, that&#x27;s intercerebral conjunctions, interpretations of congenial authors, sensations of free improvisation and an irrepressible joy of playing that makes you think: After us, the flood! It&#x27;s only good when you&#x27;re on the boat. Crossing borders at the edge of our galaxy. Playable or unplayable, in the end the compositions fall from the stage like glowing meteorites from our very last Armageddon. Retrievable by character. Mix and match to suit your mood. Modular. Explosive in the moment. Multi-diomatic. Full of cunning and verve.

Hammond organ

«Chicago» live vertont vom Satoko Fujii Quartet

IOIC, Misterioso Jazz Club and Moods present:

The movie: Roxy Hart is sexy, jazz-loving and dressed to kill. She has a doting, handsome husband and a gold-digging affair with another man who pays and pays, ultimately with his life. When Roxie is put on trial for murder, she hires a lawyer who is both the mafia&#x27;s mouthpiece and a PR agent. She hits the headlines and the courtroom drama takes its course. This satirical story about sex and murder is an entertaining mixture of humor and melodrama and at the same time a sharp criticism of sleaze journalism. Although Frank Urson was the director, it is essentially the work of Cecil B. DeMille, who apparently felt it inappropriate to take full credit for this cynical and secular story while his religious spectacle THE KING OF KINGS was still in theaters. The music: The film is scored by the Satoko Fujii Quartet with Satoko Fujii on piano, Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, Takemura Hayakawa on electric bass and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums. The quartet reunited last year after a break of 15 years and was enthusiastically received: The rhythm section drives the music forward at breakneck speed, sometimes giving it a rock rather than a boppy feel, or something in between. Fujii&#x27;s compositions are wonderfully complex, with rhythm and tempo changes, long unison lines and brilliantly dense arrangements. Both Fujii and Tamura are in excellent form. This music has a very free character, but the discipline and skill of the four musicians is best shown in the transitions between the improvised and arranged moments. Before and after the movie, DJ Misterioso will present selected gems from his vinyl collection. The evening takes place in collaboration with the IOIC - Institute of Incoherent Cinematography and the Misterioso Jazz Club.

Disk Jockey

Akutuk Origins

Flute

Moods Summer Special in der Barfussbar

Akutuk is a percussion technique from Cameroon: water is used as an instrument, played with bare hands and accompanied by singing. It is an exclusively female practice that is passed down from woman to woman over generations. The Akutuk Origins project aims to revive this almost lost cultural heritage and make it visible in public spaces. A hypnotic but surprisingly versatile sound that will unfold its full power in the wonderful setting of the Barfussbar. Supported by the Südkulturfonds. After the concert, you can dance to tropical beats of DJ Flavah Nice. Concert location: Barfussbar Frauenbad Stadthausquai, Stadthausquai 12, 8001 Zürich

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