Current project: jazz - duo

Michael Finthammer & Marc Brenken

 photo: Marc & Michael

Duo- concert motto 2024:

          "Sometimes it's Jazz - Sometimes it's more!"

Anyone who was lucky enough to experience a performance by Michael Finthammer and Marc Brenken live should have noticed two things in particular:
- her intuitive sense of groove and melody
- as well as her authentic joy in improvising.
The two have a similar musical background and taste, as well as a certain humor that makes their show incomparable.

Even often played standards sound fresh and fresh here, and original compositions enrich the duo's varied repertoire. Voice, piano, Hammond organ, guitar and percussion offer a wide range of timbres.

When the "Vocopete", Finthammer's astonishing vocal imitation of a muted trumpet, is heard, not a dry eye remains.

"Great and high-quality craftsmanship by two thoroughbred jazz musicians... impressive with what ease the two harmonized and brought the songs over the finish line with pinpoint accuracy." (Rheinische Post)

You will find examples in this video >

- Michael Finthammer: vocals, guitar, percussion, composition and vocopete, ...
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Michael Finthammer, concerts and albums with the NDR Big Band, Jiggs Whigham, Silvia Droste, Peter Weniger, Hubert Nuss, Frank Chastenier and under his own name; various radio and TV appearances with his own quartet.

- Marc Brenken: piano, hammond-organ, melodica, composition, ...
  https://marcbrenken.com

Marc has released 7 albums, mostly with his own compositions, toured in Europe, Lebanon and Mongolia, in 2011 First Jazz Prize Ruhr, in 2013 he founded the series "Jazz for the People" with over 300 concerts since then.

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