Results for "Berne"

Ruiqi Wang: Subduing the Silence with Vocal Improvisation

by Lawrence Peryer
June 29, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On vocalist, composer, and improviser 王睿琪 Ruiqi Wang (pronounced as “Ray-Chee Wong"). Ruiqi Wang creates stunning experimental music, combining influences from jazz, contemporary Euro-classical music, and traditional Chinese music. Ruiqi Wang joined us on the heels of the release of her debut album, Subduing the Silence (Orchard of ...

Simon Petermann

AKKU Quintet

Akku Quintet are a Swiss band based in Berne, from where they dispense a minimalistic jazz groove to great effect. Drummer Manuel Pasquinelli founded the band in 2010. Their first CD "Stages of Sleep" was released in May 2013 (Morpheus Records). The quintet then set the different phases of sleep to music. Their second Album "Molecules" was released in January 2015 (Morpheus Records) on CD and Vinyl. The piece "Deep Sleep 2" is featured on the compilation CD "Jazz made in Switzerland 2014/15" by SUISA and ProHelvetia. "Aeon“ is the third album, released in march 2017. Akku Quintet is touring regularly in Switzerland and abroad.

Jürg Solothurnmann

Born: 1943

Jürg Solothurnmann (b. 1943) grew up in Solothurn, Switzerland, and studied musicology, ethnomusicology, modern history, journalism and jazz at the University of Bern, the Swiss Jazz School and the Indiana University Bloomington IN. His most influential teachers were the composer Sandor Veress ,the jazz educator David N. Baker and the ethnomusicologist George List. In his childhood and youth, he played several instruments – accordion (folk music), piano) (classical and jazz, five–string banjo (American folk), marching drums, etc., and finally, tenor saxophone, which he learned largely self–taught

Johannes Walter

Born: December 17, 1979

Trumpeter Johannes Walter has been an important and valued exponent in 
Switzerland‘s jazz scene for many years. He has made a name for himself as a 
subtle instrumentalist, committed teacher, reliable arranger and efficient 
conductor/bandleader.
A formative member of the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, he was responsible for the 
band‘s lasting success by working both in musical direction and management for 
almost two decades.
He is currently teaching trumpet, ensembles, theory and ear training at 
Jazzcampus Basel and at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern

Michael Formanek's Very Practical Trio ai Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa di Palermo

by Maurizio Zerbo
January 22, 2019

Michael Formanek's Very Practical Trio Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa Nomos Jazz Festival Palermo 18.1.2019 Cosa succede quando tre grandi musicisti si incontrano nel segno della comune empatia, lontana anni luce dalle agguerrite ed egocentriche competizioni jazzistiche a cui spesso assistiamo? Ne consegue una sublime polifonia a tre voci da parte ...

Clemens Kuratle

Born: March 26, 1991

Born in 1991 in Bern, Switzerland, Clemens started playing the drums at the early age of 6 and by the age of 10 he made his first experiences as a drummer in the band of the reformed church in Meikirch/Berne were his father still preaches. He started taking piano lessons two years later. It was in highschool where he discovered his love for jazz and improvised music.

After High School he studied at the Hochschule Luzern - Musik Jazz Departement.His teachers and mentors included Pierre Favre, Gerry Hemingway, Norbert Pfammatter, Lauren Newton, Christoph Baumann, Ed Partyka, Roberto Domeniconi, Hans Feigenwinter and others.His studies with Gerry Hemingway led to an increasing interest in the music of the world, which led to a growing collection and knowledge of so called world-music, a development that cannot be underestimated.

Woodlander: Calvins Toboggan

by Geno Thackara
May 16, 2017

If the title Calvins Toboggan puts any images of a certain classic comic strip into your head, you're probably already thinking of something lighthearted, fun and adventurous. The cover should let you know, though, that this Swiss trio has its own quirky and post-modernist idea of what's fun. There's a definite sense of adventure, even a ...

Monkbeatz: Ugly Beauty

by Mark Corroto
April 9, 2016

Seventy years ago, nobody was playing pianist Thelonious Monk's music, except Monk. One of the originators of bebop, along with Dizzy Gillespie; Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell, he created his own language. As the 1940s turned into the 50s, Monk's music developed its own distinctive parlance. The earliest interpreter of Monk, maybe a better ...

Colin Vallon Trio: Le Vent

by John Kelman
March 16, 2014

When Bill Evans emerged in the 1950s, he represented a paradigm shift for the jazz piano trio. No longer a lead instrument supported by a rhythm section, Evans' more egalitarian approach to music-making allowed delineated soloists to engage in a more fully conversational context, with any instrument capable of pushing the music in a new direction ...