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The Swiss Jazz Award 2025 goes to Elina Duni
The Swiss Jazz Award 2025, an award dedicated to outstanding personalities in Swiss jazz, will be given to the singer and composer Elina Duni. The award ceremony will be held on June 28, before the artist's concert at the JazzAscona festival. An artist with an intense...
JazzAscona 2025: ten days of music and New Orleans atmosphere on Lake Maggiore
From June 26 to July 5, the 41st edition of the festival brings the best of Jazz, Funk, Soul, and Swing to Ascona. JazzAscona returns with its 41st edition, proving once more to be one of Europe's most important musical events for lovers of New Orleans music. From...
JazzAscona 2024, between high emotions and weather alerts
Between windstorms, flashes of lightning and under a leaden, threatening sky, the 40th edition of JazzAscona came to a close on Saturday evening. The edition has been successful without a doubt. The bad weather and uninviting temperatures tried to spoil the party, but...
The Swiss Jazz Award 2024 goes to the Swiss Jazz Orchestra from Bern
"The best Jazz big band in Switzerland" (Pepe Lienhard), "A world-class big band" (Peter Erskine): There are countless positive voices for the Swiss Jazz Orchestra (SJO), a professional ensemble that JazzAscona is welcoming for the first time. The orchestra will be...
JazzAscona 2024, a festive vintage poster with a technological touch
The now classic vibrant orange background of JazzAscona, a striking logo with the inscription "40th edition," and above all, a collage of black and white photos of musicians surrounded by flowers and symbols of New Orleans and Ascona. It's a work of art that, in some...
JazzAscona will celebrate its 40th edition with “Jazz Off The Wall”, a street art event featuring more than 40 giant-size photographic oeuvres by Yuri Catania. A preview in New Orleans.
The first details about the 40th anniversary edition of JazzAscona scheduled for June 20–29, 2024 are seeping through. The festival in Ticino will celebrate its 40th edition with a street art event that will feature more than 40 large- and medium-sized photographic...
Vanessa Collier is the winner of the AET My Choice – Audience Award 2023
The JazzAscona Audience Award 2023, presented in collaboration with AET (Azienda Elettrica Ticinese), was awarded to the American saxophonist, singer and songwriter Vanessa Collier.©JazzAscona - Photo credit Gioele Pozzi Invited to JazzAscona for the first time,...
JazzAscona is already looking ahead to its 40th edition: a quality music festival
©JazzAscona - Photo credit Gioele PozziFavored by the weather, the 39th edition of JazzAscona ended on Saturday 1 July 2023 in Ascona with a successful and well-attended closing night on the lakefront that included performances by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, the...
Here’s Soundtracks: with Frog & Henry JazzAscona boards the historic Centovallina train on Saturday, June 24
In collaboration with Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi, for the first time ever JazzAscona is offering a musical journey on the Centovalli railways’s historical train on Saturday, June 24. Soundtracks is it’s name and it will allow you to travel back in time, on...
Christoph Grab, winner of the Swiss Jazz Award 2023
JazzAscona is delighted to host one of the most significant, versatile and creative Swiss Jazzmen of today. Some have rightly called him “a tradition-conscious modernist.” We are talking about Christoph Grab, saxophonist, composer and arranger, who for his artistic...