In the opening episode of the 'Swiss Jazz Hour', Manon Mullener and Athina Dill from Radio Bern Rabe shine a spotlight on the rise and advent of jazz in Switzerland. We listen to music from early beginnings in the 1920s and 1930s when Jazz began as dance music, to some of the most important recordings from later eras recorded by musicians like Irene Schweizer or Sylvie Courvoisier.