Raphael Jost

After his successful debut "Do not Blame Me" (UNIT 2014), with which Raphael Jost won the Swiss Jazz Award 2015 and performed numerous concert appearances, the subtle and shrewd singer, pianist, composer and arranger once again returns with his »lots of horns «To the studio. His second song "Moosedays" is a very personal album - 10 of the 12 songs are original compositions - and tells stories from Jost's life.

The double bass player and composer Raphael Walser, born in 1988, grew up near Zurich in a family of musicians. He started taking double bass lessons when he was only eleven years old, at first classical, but later on he studied jazz at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Even before that, he was part of various jazz bands. Already during his studies, he was able to claim prizes and play at festivals in both Switzerland and Germany. After completing his studies in 2013 he founded his own band GangArt. Their first album is released as part of the renowned series „Jazz Thing Next Generation.“ He repeatedly player concerts with renowed bands such as Raphael Jost, Zurich Jazz Orchestra, Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, Jochen Baldes Subnoder, Anna Kaenzig and Harald Haerters Cat Scan.

The scholarly study of the texts traditionally regarded as sacred in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been an important aspect of Wissenschaft des Judentums and was often conceptualized as part of Jewish theology.