16 windplayers and a rhythm section consisting of 4 musicians play funk, among others from Tower of Power, that make you want to dance and the walls tremble, as well as main stream swing and jazz ballads. And furthermore Christian Dietz sings Frank Sinatra's tunes with the Uni Big Band. The preferences between, Old-School-Big Band, Sinatra Tunes, Funk and Contemporary Big Band can be chosen by the promoter. Creative soloists come up with the highlights by instrumentally telling smooth or wild jazz stories.

An exquisite project is Touch Point Jazz (touchpointjazz.eu ). Enrico Pieranunzi plays his music with the Uni Big Band, arranged by Matthias Wenger, a bernese saxophon player.

Two students of the University of Bern, coincidentally meeting at the Swiss Jazz School and an auditorium at university, founded the Uni Big Band in 1995. Mr. Wolfgang Pemberger was chosen as the musical director. Not only he conducts the rehearsals and gigs but also confers in terms of buying sheet music and selecting instrumentation.

The Uni Big Band can be engaged for private or business happenings and performs at various events (Festival L'Oeuf de Jazz Le Mans (F), Univercity Zuerich, Funkroots Gaskessel and so on). Playing at little pubs on the smallest stages, such as in Brasserie Lorraine and Restaurant Du Nord in Bern, is one of the specialties of the Uni Big Band. Big Band Jazz performed in a club-alike atmosphere is pure pleasure for musicians as well as the audience.