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Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn: To My Beloved Ones

Read "To My Beloved Ones" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Multiple reedman, composer and arranger Steffen Schorn served a six-year tenure with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra. The collaboration resulted in a masterful trilogy of albums, Three Pictures (2018) and Dedications (2021), both on Mons Records, and now To My Beloved Ones. This is luxurious big band music, serious sounds. The traditions mix with modernity; moments of whimsy sneak in. It is madcap one minute, majestic, gorgeous and luminescent the next. The band boasts six reeds players, including Schorn. ...

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Zurich Jazz Orchestra & Steffen Schorn: Dedications

Read "Dedications" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The Zurich Jazz Orchestra (ZJO), under the leadership of multiple reedist Steffen Schorn, is a colorful listening experience on their 2021 release Dedications. The arrangements weave woodwind pastels over backdrops of the darker hues of the trombones and bursts of bright primaries from the trumpets. Schorn took the leadership role of the ZJO in 2018, presenting his Three Pictures (Mons Records). He pushes his concepts of complex arrangements that mix jazz and classical traditions with exuberant innovation further ...

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Steffen Schorn & Zurich Jazz Orchestra: Three Pictures

Read "Three Pictures" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The 2004 album Triosphere (Jazz & Arts Records), featuring reedist Steffen Schorn, saxophonist Roger Hanschel and guitarist Dirk Mudelien, points in the direction of the large ensemble work, Three Pictures. Schorn took over the reins of the Zurich Jazz Orchestra in 2014, and for the ensemble he has written and arranged the “Three Pictures Suite," “Africa Suite," and four other high-quality compositions—all highly layered and deftly nuanced works that point back to Triosphere, with a much expanded palette. If Triosphere ...

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Steffen Schorn and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble: Tiefentraume

Read "Tiefentraume" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


German multiple reed man Steffen Schorn plays a wide array of wind instruments: tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones; Bb, bass, contra-alto and contrabass clarinets, along with the piccolo, flute, alto and bass flutes. So it makes sense for an artist with that many wind instruments in his quiver to collaborate with a wind ensemble, specifically with The Norwegian Wind Ensemble, the country's esteemed--and oldest--small orchestra, for Tiefentraume, a set of symphonic music featuring Schorn, along with saxophonist Roger ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

To My Beloved Ones

Mons Records
2022

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Dedications

Mons Records
2021

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Three Pictures

Mons Records
2018

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Tiefentraume

Self Produced
2013

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Universe Of...

JazzSick Records
2011

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