Every year, the five jazz departments of the Swiss music academies present the joint All Star project under the DKSJ label. An international personality is invited to practice intensively for three days with a group of students from all five universities and then to play this program at five concerts in Basel, Lucerne, Bern, Lausanne and Zurich.

This year's Guest Artist for the DKSJ All Star Ensemble is New York-based saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock.