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Marijke Jährling

 

 

With nearly a four octave range, Dutch-German vocalist and lyricist, Marijke Jährling paints pictures, builds sculptures of transparent beauty, and tells touching stories of life. Her singing reflects her artistic career, her life, and her various experiences as a versatile artist.    To shy to go on stage she first studied fine arts, then went to drama-school and worked as a singin' actor before switchin to jazz.                Educated by various international artists including the Countertenor Oliver May,  she was taught Jazz singing by Diethra Bishop (Hilversum, NL) and Fay Victor (NY,USA)- the New-York vocalist about Marijke's talent: "You're a great jazzsinger very musical"

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From 2012 until 2016 Marijke had embodied Billie Holiday in the play “Billie’s Blues” which she wrote for the West Side Theatre, Darmstadt.  It was highly acclaimed and ran the scene for years. The CD “Portrait of a Lady - THE BILLIE HOLIDAY STORY" will be released on occasion of Billies 110th birthday with the label ACEL (Paris)”  as an homage to Lady Day and a reference to a long therme preoccupation of Marijke with her life and work.

             With her last production "Bonjour Liberté" (hello liberty), she follows up from the revue "Mensch, Kurt!", in which she wove texts and songs by the important German journalist and antifacist Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) into a full-length theatre piece for the West Side Theatre Darmstadt in 2016. With the album "Bonjour Liberté", she places Kurt Tucholsky  alongside a contemporary, the composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950). The two jews from Berlin never met, but as Paris was a place of refuge for them from the impositions of their time before second world war, Marijke has therefore translated Tucholsky and Weill into French, set Tucholsky to music and with new and  fresh arrangements, "Bonjour Liberté" has become a cheeky, poetic album, oscillating between jazz and chanson, and even danceable with echoes of musette, rumba and tango - and it is highly topical!
 

Her album “Spheres of Monk” - released in 2017 on Dot Time Records, New York, brings her back to her mid twenties when she heard some of the tunes Monk was playing with Coltrane.

Her idea for the Monk album came from inside the musical stories. So it was only natural for her to write some lyrics for his music, in French, English and German, and added her own musical arrangements.

She worked with, among others, Saxplayer Eric Plandé, bassists  Jürgen Wuchner and Ralf Cetto),  drummer Uli Schiffelholz (HR -Jazzensemble), pianist Sébastien Lovato (Paris) as well as with  New York based pianist Marco di Gennaro. He said their cooperation was: “Outstanding! It was a pleasure for me”.

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