Yumi Ito

Critics consider the Swiss-Polish-Japanese singer to be one of the most exciting voices in contemporary jazz. It&#x27;s no wonder that she regularly sells out shows at festivals such as the JazzArt Festival and the Veneto Jazz Festival. Yumi Ito creates her own boundless worlds with her voice. A master of vocal improvisation, she moves effortlessly between genres and her roles as a singer, pianist, and composer. Her own music is correspondingly diverse, an ocean of art pop, jazz, and neoclassical. On stage, Ito acts like a Zen master: clear, reflective, and with a uniquely powerful energy. She is backed by her band: &quot;drum poet&quot; Iago Fernández on drums, Nadav Erlich on double bass, and Alessio Cazzetta on guitar. Together, they focus solely on creating musical worlds in the spirit of boundlessness.

Vocals

Piano

Guitar

Bass

Drum Kit

Style Bakery meets Bounce Cypher Artists

Three weeks before this edition of Style Bakery, the legendary SRF Bounce Cypher takes place – the annual meeting place for the Swiss rap scene and an unofficial assessment of the current state of affairs on the mic. Six hours of exceptional circumstances, enormous YouTube live numbers, and maximum visibility for those involved. Together with host Pablo, we invite a selection of celebrated artists to perform their exclusive Cypher parts live – with a live band and audience. The band and the hand-picked freestyle vocalists also celebrate the unexpected together. A Cypher edition of a special kind – raw, real, and unforgettable. Joining us for this special edition of Style Bakery are Bounce Cypher artists Cali P, Eldorado FM, Lo &amp; Leduc, Benji Bonus, Poche Spanne, Saimon Disko, LCone, Manu913 &amp; Fau$tino, Vas Angelov, Parazh, Ryan87, Tony Castle, Supremnova, Zairandy, Sulaya and Svmthox.

Host

Keyboards

Aaron Parks Little Big

With his 2008 Blue Note debut album, Invisible Cinema, pianist Aaron Parks introduced himself as an exciting new voice in jazz. He impresses not only as a pianist, but also as a composer of melodies that are as complex as they are catchy. Seamlessly combining elements of modern jazz, indie rock, and Eastern musical styles, Parks creates a unique and personal sound. His playing is characterized by lyrical beauty, rhythmic complexity, and harmonic sophistication. These qualities also characterize his band, Little Big, which consists of guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist David Ginyard Jr., and drummer Jongkuk Kim. At Moods, they will present their latest album, Little Big III, co-produced by Blue Note boss Don Was. The record exudes an extraordinary vitality that is both beautiful and raw, underlining the band&#x27;s powerful, modern concept of improvised, genre-spanning music in the 21st century.

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.

Makaya McCraven

In 2015, the drummer, producer and sound artist Makaya McCraven released his groundbreaking album, In the Moment. This established him as one of the leading figures in jazz and beat-heavy music. Ten years later, McCraven is back with an exciting new project that takes his sound even further. In the autumn of 2025, the drummer released four EPs simultaneously. He remains true to his approach of reshaping music in new and unexpected ways and placing it in a new context. Entitled Techno Logic, PopUp Shop, Hidden Out! and The People&#x27;s Mixtape, the four EPs were produced in McCraven&#x27;s signature Organic Beat Music style, which he first introduced on In the Moment and has continued to develop ever since. His secret recipe is to subject live recordings of his drum-led improvisations to intensive post-production.

Trumpet

Fender-Rhodes E-Piano

Yves Theiler Trio+ feat. Bardia Charaf

«OMEGA»

With the fifth album, OMEGA, the Yves Theiler Trio, joined by guest musician Bardia Charaf on tenor saxophone, transports listeners into a soundscape filled with playfulness, depth, and sophisticated compositions. Pianist Yves Theiler, who once again serves as the composer and arranger of all pieces, creates a pulsating unity alongside Luca Sisera on double bass and Lukas Mantel on drums — blending jazz with pop influences and even touches of modern classical music. The album opens with &quot;For Four&quot;, celebrating the playful dialogue between the musicians before transitioning into &quot;Béla Bartók is Lost&quot; — an homage to the great composer Bartók, inspired by his structural forms yet infused with a fresh sense of improvisational freedom. &quot;The Circle&quot; and the title track &quot;Omega&quot; weave a hypnotic dramaturgy, elegantly bringing the cycle of musical ideas to a close. &quot;The Legacy of an Old Feeling&quot; captures a hint of nostalgia, while the closing piece, &quot;Broken Dreams&quot;, gracefully draws the listener back from this daydream into the present moment. OMEGA is an album that masterfully balances structure and free flow, tradition and modernity. It invites listeners to be swept away by dynamic interaction, expressive melodies, and vibrant rhythms — another milestone in the artistic evolution of the Yves Theiler Trio.

Tenorsaxophon

Kontrabass

MKZ Bandfestival

Whether blues-rock trio or big band, advanced workshops or individual performances, original compositions and standards, the pop/rock/jazz department of Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ) is excellently represented in its entire breadth. The proven concept with main and side stage ensures real festival character.

Magnifico

Kultur Shock & Moods present

Magnifico has his roots in Slovenia and Serbia, but musically he cannot be clearly categorized. He mixes Balkan brass sections with disco beats, American folk, ex-Yugoslavian rock and love songs. In Serbian, Romani and deliberately broken English, he exposes stereotypes and prejudices and takes a humorous stand against machismo, xenophobia and homophobia. A furious fusion of surf guitars, turbofolk and Balkan funk.

Mario Peric

Warm Up & Afterparti

The BalkanEkstra Parti doesn&#x27;t stop at oriental sounds or Arabic rhythms - the main thing is to dance! With the legendary concert and party series Kultur Shock, Mario Peric is one of the pioneers of the Balkan scene as an organizer, DJ and producer. He has been thrilling audiences for many years with his varied, explosive and crazy sounds. His musical spectrum cannot be pinned down to one direction. The main thing is that it rocks!

Violin

Saxophon

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Thomas Gansch

100 Jahre Miles Davis

To celebrate the centenary of Miles Davis&#x27; birth, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra performs a selection of pieces written by Gil Evans for Miles Davis and found on the legendary albums Sketches of Spain, Miles Ahead, Porgy &amp; Bess and Quiet Nights. The program is a true best of program, with highlights from each album performed by the original line-up and featuring the incomparable Thomas Gansch as soloist. The program will also include the final part of Ed Partyka&#x27;s composition for the ZJO&#x27;s 30th anniversary, orchestrated for the expanded line-up by Gil Evans and rarely heard in traditional big band music. This concert will end our 2025-2026 Mood Concerts on a high, showcasing yet another facet of the Zurich Jazz Orchestra&#x27;s stylistic breadth and depth.

Regie

Flugelhorn

Flute

Bass Clarinet

Bassoon

Trombone

Bassposaune

Tuba

Harp

Percussion

25 YEARS VINTAGE JAM BAND

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. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the JazzBaragge Wednesday Jam, the association is hiring a jam band every month, at least one of whose members played in the original line-up. 25 years later – a retrospective! There is no presale for JazzBaragge, only box office.

Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters

Stéphane Galland &amp; The Rhythm Hunters was born to transmit Stéphane Gallands musical journey with other musicians. The goal is to integrate rhythmic principles from his travels to different parts of the world into a personal musical language. It’s a sequel to Stéphane’s previous project “(the mystery of) Kem”. The objective is to explore different approaches to rhythm, that seem unusual and complex at first and to integrate them into a fluid musical discourse. This process requires extensive collective work, so that the whole group becomes familiar with these new rhythmic concepts and challenges. The group consists of Shoko Igarashi on tenor saxophone (Japan), Sylvain Debaisieux on alto saxophone who already played in “(the mystery of) Kem” (2018), trumpet player Pierre-Antoine Savoyat (France), Wajdi Riahi on piano (Tunisia) and Louise van den Heuvel on electric bass (the Netherlands). Drummer Stéphane Galland composed the pieces as different musical territories where rhythm hunting is highly recommended.

Altsaxophon

E-Bass

Petros Klampanis, Kristjan Randalu, Ziv Ravitz

«Latent Info»

Latent Info, the new project by Klampanis, dubbed ‘Bass Ace’ by Bass Player Magazine, featuring Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz, now demonstrates that instrumental music is indeed capable of storytelling. It tells its story as the ‘latent information’ of a piece, just as real but intangible as unspoken thoughts, unattained goals or flowers in the asphalt, unseen and largely ignored. In order to bring the unexplored sound information to consciousness, the album of the same name, released in February 2025 on Enja, was recorded – in contrast to current recording practice – with all three musicians sharing the space at the same time, with the respective microphones subtly capturing the subtext floating in the room. Sometimes they improvise over subtle calypso rhythms, sometimes they indulge in dreamy elegies, then again they give way to strong syncopation, but always dominated by sparkling piano sounds that draw their power from subtlety. Throughout, the musical dialogues and trialogues of Klampanis, Randalu and Ravitz shine a spotlight on the realm of the unspoken, the overlooked and, of course, the unheard or overheard – and, last but not least, reveal the beauty and power that lies in all unnoticed things.

Electronics

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.

K.O.G

Afropfingsten & Moods present

Kweku Sackey aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) is a multi-dimensional creative force, combining exquisite writing skills with shamanistic live performance, fierce raps, perfectly on pitch singing across a massive vocal range and some absolutely wicked dance moves. Not to mention his skills as a percussionist, arranger, bandleader and art director. A true poet and storyteller, he uses a mix of English, Pidgin and Ga to paint sonic pictures that reach deep into the souls of everyone ready to listen. Born in Accra, Ghana, to a nurse mother and marine engineer father who had studied in England, he grew up with a diverse range of international influences alongside Ghanaian styles: Tom Waits, Quincy Jones, Bob Marley, Sizzla, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ebo Taylor, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Atongo Simba, George Clinton, Pavarotti, Warsaw Village Band. Kweku is deeply aware of his heritage and of his role as an ambassador both through space and time, negotiating culturally both between African and Western influences and between the traditional and the modern: always open to new innovations and ideas while firmly rooted in a deep lineage. This openness has informed recent collaborations with a wide wide range of producers and writers, including Léon Phal, Jembaa Groove, Zed Bias, iZem, Afriquoi, Congo Natty, Scrimshire, Dark Sky, Dizraeli, Chiminyo, Umoja and many more in the pipeline.

Balafon

V.I.P. Session by JUR Records – LTJ Bukem (UK)

JUR Records & Moods present

Danny Williamson, also known as LTJ Bukem, is as integral to drum&#x27;n&#x27;bass as the air we breathe. His sound is characterised by complex rhythms and deep basslines, but above all by his unique fusion of jazz and soul influences. His timeless sets combine decades of drum &#x27;n&#x27; bass to create a danceable experience for everyone, whether they&#x27;re connoisseurs or newcomers to the scene. He is renowned for producing new, exciting and groundbreaking music while never losing sight of his roots and the original influences that inspired him. It&#x27;s no exaggeration to say that he has contributed essential chapters to the history of breakbeat culture. That&#x27;s precisely why he belongs at our VIP nights. What began at Kiff continues at Moods, and we are delighted that LTJ Bukem keeps coming back to us. Box office: CHF 30 / Pre sales: CHF 25

Disk Jockey

Lea Gasser 5tet

«Circles»

With &quot;Circles&quot;, Swiss accordionist Lea Gasser presents her second album, which is featuring intimate soundscapes and rhythmic diversity, and is also influenced by her residency in Iceland. Accompanied by her award-winning quintet, who won the ZKB Jazz Prize in 2024, she takes us on a distinctive musical journey through jazz, chamber music and folk. The quintet emerged from the accordionist&#x27;s long-held desire to perform her own music. Within the quintet&#x27;s sound, the Lea Gasser creates personal compositions that capture seemingly ordinary everyday moments and breathe new life into them each time. Sometimes the music dances with joyful energy, and at other times it slows down dreamily, leaving room for solo narratives to unfold.

Sopransaxophon

Accordion

Composition

Eddie Henderson feat. Piero Odorici Group

Miles Legacy

Eddie Henderson is a true jack-of-all-trades. As a child, he fell in love with the sound of the trumpet, then wanted to become a figure skater, was a practising doctor and is a living jazz legend. This is no coincidence. Henderson comes from a musical family – his mother was a dancer, his father a singer with the then-famous Charioteers – and learned his musical craft from the very best. He received his first trumpet lesson from Louis Armstrong, and family friend Miles Davis – a big fan of Henderson&#x27;s sound – convinced him to pursue a career in music. In a career spanning decades, he has played with greats such as John Hardy, Philly Joe Jones, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders and Mike Nock, and released groundbreaking albums such as &quot;Heritage&quot;, “Sunburst” and &quot;Phantoms&quot;. Henderson&#x27;s playing is characterised by his lyrical phrasing, his imaginative improvisations and his use of space and silence in his solos. He also manages to combine traditional jazz styles with more contemporary elements such as funk and soul. Joined by a line-up of Piero Odorici, Danny Grisset, Joshua Ginsburg and Vladimir Kostadinovic, this is an evening not to be missed.

Skyjack

Album Release «Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet»

The award-winning jazz collective Skyjack, consisting of some of the most sought-after jazz musicians from South Africa and Switzerland, is currently on tour to promote their latest album, “Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet”. Their fourth record is set to be released in April 2026 on the legendary South African label As-Shams/The Sun Records and will further explore contemporary grooves and a modern understanding of jazz. The band consists of three members from South Africa and two from Switzerland. All are highly acclaimed critics in their own right, but Skyjack as a whole is as great as its individual parts. Shane Cooper and Kyle Shepherd have each won the coveted Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Award. Swiss musicians Marc Stucki and Andreas Tschopp are two of Switzerland&#x27;s most sought-after horn players, who have achieved dizzying creative and professional heights over the years. Jonno Sweetman joined the band in 2022 and is one of South Africa&#x27;s most sought-after drummers. Their sound is an absolute powerhouse, with all members bringing compositions written for the group. From deep African grooves, to heavy-hitting jazz rides and beautiful soundscapes, it’s all part of the incredible journey that is Skyjack.

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