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Johannes Felscher

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.

Future Memories

By Mareike Wiening

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Northern Sail; El Escorial; An Idea Is Unpredictable; RiChanges; Future Memories; The Other Soul; Seesaw March; Dance Into July.

Mareike Wiening: Future Memories

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 ...

Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

by Don Phipps
November 4, 2019

Composer-drummer Mareike Wiening's album, Metropolis Paradise, is a homage to her six-year residency in New York. And what a special time it must have been--judging from the music--a warm, sunny collection of shimmering and breezy beauty. Wiening wrote all the compositions, and they reflect what might be a perfect day sitting in Central Park under a ...

Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

by Mark Sullivan
October 25, 2019

German-born drummer/composer Mareike Wiening makes her first full-length album and Greenleaf Music debut with Metropolis Paradise. This all-original program is a winning display of her composing, drumming and band-leading, with the help of a very sharp band. Returning from her earlier EP Crosswalk (Self Produced, 2015) are double bassist Johannes Felscher (a fellow Nuremberg native), Canadian ...

Paul Jones: Clean

by Dan Bilawsky
August 15, 2017

When saxophonist Paul Jones delivered his literature-indebted debut--Short History (Blujazz Productions, 2014)--it marked him as an intellectually curious seeker, eager and willing to walk a different path. With Clean he goes even further afield, utilizing minimalistic ideals, mathematically-oriented compositional methodology, post-millenial hip hop influences, and jazz language to create a whole that's wholly different from anything ...