• founded in 1967. The Swiss Jazz School has currently two departments: General School: The general school of the Swiss Jazz School offers a semi-professional...
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  • in the Big Band of the Swiss Jazz School, the oldest college for jazz music in Switzerland (which has been part of the Art School of Bern Hochschule der...
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    non-German-speaking Swiss born within the rest of Switzerland speak German. While learning one of the other national languages at school is important, most Swiss learn...
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    Montreux (redirect from Swiss Riviera)
    schooling, 39.8% were Swiss men, 25.3% were Swiss women, 19.8% were non-Swiss men and 15.1% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a...
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    Swiss Movement. This became one of the best-selling jazz albums ever and was nominated during the 13th Annual Grammy Awards (1970) for the Best Jazz Performance...
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    Sophie Hunger (category Swiss jazz musicians)
    harp, piano and composes most of her songs in English, French, Swiss German, German and Swiss Italian. In 2006, in a few days, she home-recorded her solo...
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    Kurt Oldman (category Swiss film score composers)
    training at the Fribourg Conservatory and the Lucerne Swiss Jazz School in Lucerne, Switzerland. As a young child he was inspired by several film music...
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  • instrumental rock and inspired musical battles in Basel, the capital of Swiss rock. Swiss bands in the same mold included The 16 Strings and Pichi, and German-speaking...
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  • Romano Ricciardi (category Swiss jazz musicians)
    an Italian/Swiss Jazz-Saxophonist. Born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1986. Romano developed an early interest in music listening to old jazz musicians like...
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    Bill. Switzerland Swiss Federation of Private Schools, the Geneva Association of Private Schools, the Lake Geneva Region Swiss Private Schools Association...
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    yodeling. Other Swiss cultural icons include Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, watches, cowbells, banking, and the Swiss Army knives. Folk art is kept alive in...
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  • no varsity teams play for the school. The Juilliard School has a variety of ensembles, including chamber music, jazz, orchestras, and vocal/choral groups...
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  • training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. The school has students from over seventy countries. It was...
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    became a professional musician. In 1983, he attended the Swiss Jazz school which was in Swiss Bern, he was unable to continue his studies there due to...
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    (including two by Jazz Band II) at the Bellevue High School jazz festival in Bellevue, Washington, six sweepstakes awards at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in...
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  • Pennsbury Concert Jazz Band was the first American High School Jazz Band (PCJB) to perform throughout China. Grammy Award-winning jazz composers Sammy Nestico...
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    The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Established in 1969, it has placed...
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    Carolyn Leonhart (category American jazz singers)
    home she sang while her father and brother played jazz standards. She won the Lena Horne High School Jazz Vocalist competition in her senior year. Leonhart...
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    Guerino Mazzola (category Swiss jazz pianists)
    Guerino Bruno Mazzola (born 1947) is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, and jazz pianist, as well as a writer. Mazzola obtained his PhD in mathematics...
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    Les McCann (category African-American jazz musicians)
    the success of Swiss Movement, McCann, primarily a piano player, emphasized his vocals. He became an innovator in soul jazz, merging jazz with funk, soul...
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    Switzerland, and 417 or 23.2% were born outside of Switzerland. In 2008[update] there were 9 live births to Swiss citizens and 6 births to non-Swiss citizens...
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  • Shattered Dreams (category Johnny Hates Jazz songs)
    Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 3 March 2020. "Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams". Swiss Singles...
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    Judith Durham (redirect from Hot Jazz Duo)
    gospel, and jazz pieces. Her singing career began one night at the age of 18 when she asked Nicholas Ribush, leader of the Melbourne University Jazz Band, at...
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  • in the Zurich area. The American International School of Zurich (AISZ) was founded in 1963 in a Swiss villa (built in 1914) in Kilchberg. The building...
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    James Lloyd Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962) is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone...
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  • Teenage Dirtbag (category Single chart usages for Switzerland)
    (PDF) on May 17, 2011. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards ('Teenage Dirt Bag')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. "British single certifications...
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    2018. "Radio Swiss Jazz – Music database – Musician". Retrieved March 24, 2018. "The DownBeat Critics Poll Archive", Downbeat.com 2005 Jazz Journalists...
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    Colin Vallon (category Swiss jazz pianists)
    pianist Marc Ueter at fourteen years of age. In 1998 he attended the Swiss Jazz School and studied with Silvano Bazan, William Evans, Manuel Bärtsch, and...
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  • Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban...
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  • Alexia Gardner (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    Offbeat Trio and also was awarded the Swiss Jazz Award in 2011. The album was 14 tracks long and included a lot of Jazz Classics as well as original songs...
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