Jazz in der Alten Feuerwache I MARINA & HER GOOD SPIRITS

In the organizer's words:

Does the presenter of "Jazz in der Feuerwache" think she has taken leave of her senses?
No, quite the opposite! She has gathered "Her Good Spirits" around her tonight on the studio stage to create a session opener with her favorite songs in her own way: with special intros, rhythm changes, excursions into other genres beyond the usual jazz standards.

Marina Thalke - vocals
Felix Mross - piano
Jörn Henrich - bass
Yatziv Caspi - drums
Harry Ermer - harmonica

Presenter and singer Marina Th alke began her musical career with the classical choral repertoire. Her enthusiasm for flamenco then led her from flamenco dancing to flamenco singing and via Latin American rhythms to jazz, where she finally found her musical home. With jazz standards, boleros and chansons, she tells stories from all over the world in several languages.

Felix Mross is a classically trained pianist with a broad stylistic spectrum. He has won several national prizes in the "Jugend musiziert" competition and the 2004 WDR Classical Music Prize, and has performed as a soloist and accompanist at venues including the renowned Carnegie Hall in New York. In recent years, he has increasingly shifted his artistic focus to jazz and Latin American styles.

Bassist Jörn Henrich played in his first jazz band at school and has stuck with music ever since. At the end of the 90s, he was a member of jazz professor Joe Viera's quartet. This was followed by numerous activities, such as concerts in the Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, in Donetsk, in Kiev, at the jazz festival "Jazz au Chellah" (Rabat/Morocco), conducting master classes at the "Conservatoire National De Musique Et De Danse" (Morocco), lectures on philosophical perspectives in jazz.
Since 2005, he has been an associated bass player in the jazz band of the German Foreign Office.

Yatziv Caspi, born in Israel, has lived in Berlin since 2009. He began playing the drums at the age of 6. He is at home in many styles, from jazz to pop, fusion, progressive rock and world music. At the age of 17 he took tabla lessons from an Indian teacher for 6 years, then traveled to North India and got to know the rich traditions of Indian classical music, which added new dimensions to his approach to rhythm and musical expression.

Harry Ermer, born in Landau/Pfalz, studied sound engineering at the HdK Berlin. From 1990 he played keyboard in the Wintergarten Varieté Berlin and from 1992 was pianist in the orchestra of the Theater des Westens. From 1996 he accompanied numerous well-known artists at the Bar jeder Vernunft, the Renaissance Theater Berlin, the TIPI, the Schlosspark-Theater Berlin and the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg. He has also worked on music productions for the TV series "Praxis Bülowbogen" and "Lindenstraße". He has recorded CDs with Manfred Krug, Judy Winter, Georg Preuße, Till Brönner, Joana Zimmer, "Ich & Ich", Sarah Connor and Sharon Brauner.