Number of employees

5 permanent employees plus free-lancers as needed

Year of establishment

1994

Stylistic focus

Jazz, world music, funk and soul, singer-songwriters, legends

Festival organisation

Zurich Jazznojazz Festival
Theaterhaus Gessnerallee and ewz-Unterwerk Selnau.
www.jazznojazz.ch

Highlight(s) of the last 5 years

Concert series:
– Jazz classics (throughout Switzerland)
– Jazz recitals (Tonhalle Zurich)
- Heineken music (throughout Switzerland)
- ewz.unplugged (Zurich)
- Accenture-Night (Kongresshaus Zurich)

Clubs:
– Widder Jazz, Widder Bar, Zurich (throughout the year)

Jazz concerts:
Al Di Meola, Brad Mehldau, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Joshua Redman, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson Quartet, Pat Methendy, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, and many more!

World music concerts:
Caetano Veloso, Cesaria Evora, Gilberto Gil, Ibrahim Ferrer, Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Clegg, Khaled, Miriam Makeba, Omara Portuondo, Paco De Lucia & Septet, Youssou N’Dour and and many more!

Funk, soul and blues concerts:
Al Jarreau, Ani DiFranco, Candy Dulfer, Incognito, India.Arie, Maceo Parker, Marcus Miller, Randy Crawford, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Willy DeVille and many more!

Number of shows/events per year

Round 100 individual concerts across Switzerland; jazznojazz Festival in Zurich

The motivation and the vision behind the founding of the company

AllBlues exclusively operates on a seasonal basis, i.e. from October until the beginning of July, and is not involved in the summer festival period. This strict division has proved highly successful and prevents competition situations.

Geographical orientation

Zurich, Lucerne, Basel, Biel, St. Gallen, Lausanne, Geneva

Ratio of national to international acts

As a rule, only international artists

Main activities and core competencies

AllBlues is mainly seasonal active. That means from October to early July. The programm is strictly aligned to the genres Jazz-World-Funk-Soul, completed with Singer-Songwriters and Personalities from Pop-Rock.

Personal orientation for the future

Jazz as the classical music of the 20th century will always have a public. This being the case, I am confident that AllBlues will become further established as Switzerland's leading organiser of jazz events. The areas of world, funk soul and our all-Switzerland focus is becoming increasingly important for us. However, with 100 concerts / year I see us as growing more in terms of quality than in quantity in future.

Personal opinion of the prevailing scenario in the business

I still like it...