JugendJazzOrchester.CH and Constellation Big Band

The JJO brings together highly talented young musicians from all over Switzerland and offers them a platform to make music together.
Their album "Kuh auf dem Eis" is already 3 years old again and after the last motto "1,5° mal gerade lassen sein" (1,5° Let's be straight) became internationally accepted, they are now making their way from Bern to Oslo and back under the motto "1,5° Manche mögen's HEISS" (1,5° Some like it HOT). The artistic directors are the two Westphalians Benjamin Weidekamp and Michael Haves, who have been working together for a quarter of a century. Among them are the bands (Olaf Ton, Stereo Lisa, Filter Bubble and Brigade Futur III).
Together with over 20 young Swiss musicians, they address the questions and challenges of our time. Since the anniversary year is also the farewell to the current double leadership, this year's program consists of the greatest hits of the last 6 years.
The pieces deal with a corporation on a therapist's couch, Waltraud, Emil's rich sister, the confessions of an economic killer, everyday life at the supermarket checkout and the fairy tale of green growth on a planet with finite resources. And, of course, the eternal question: wouldn't it be better to do something decent?
What all too often gets stuck in the throat as a lump in everyday life is set to music on stage. They tell stories that reflect their personal dilemmas and conflicts, without threatening to lecture with a moralizing finger. In doing so, they reflect nothing less than the state of the world, the excesses of capitalism and, above all, the opportunities for each individual to get involved in the discourse.

"The good-humored, almost bizarre arrangements sound as if Duke Ellington songs were being put through a speculative shredder. With a powerful group of young Swiss musicians, they deliver a lesson in postmodern associative madness." (Peter Kemper F.A.Z.)