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Johannes Felscher

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Johannes Felscher is a New York based bassist and composer at home in many directions in music. Born 1983 in Nuremberg, Germany his musical path took him to Wuerzburg, Stuttgart, Amsterdam and finally New York, where he earned a Masters Degree from the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. He also holds a Bachelors Degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam and an Artistic Diploma from the Conservatory of Stuttgart (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst).

Johannes Felscher performs on upright and electric bass alike, covering a broad range of styles reflecting his wide interest in everything music and natural feel for groove and harmony regardless of genre.

Unsurprisingly his experience as a performer covers an broad range of ensembles, artists and settings such as the Amsterdam Jazz Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart, State Opera Stuttgart, Benjamin Herman, Gerard Presencer, Bobby Sanabria, Jasper Blom, Rainer Böhm, Bodek Janke, Lutz Häfner etc.

Johannes Felscher is working as a freelance bassist, composer and recording engineer in New York City.

Mareike Wiening: Reveal

by Mark Sullivan
January 12, 2024

Mareike Wiening is a German drummer/composer who began her career in New York, and now divides her time between there and Köln, Germany. On her third album, she continues making music with her New York-based working band, an increasingly rare situation in contemporary jazz. It provides her an opportunity for more compositional experimentation with each release. “Time for Priorities" begins abstractly, a duet between drums and guitarist Alex Goodman's spacey electronics, before introducing the swinging theme and the rest of ...

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Mareike Wiening: Future Memories

Read "Future Memories" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 19, 2021

It is interesting that in today's creative music world, a jazz drummer cannot just be a jazz drummer. There are so many great drummers that they have to also be composers, band leaders, and sometimes van drivers. A short list includes Tyshawn Sorey, Allison Miller, Ches Smith, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Add to that list Mareike Wiening, the German-born artist with (now) deep New York roots. Her release Metropolis Paradise (Greenleaf Music, 2019) brought her music critical attention and acclaim, ...