Portrait of a Lady, Concerts Germany

“An evening you won't soon forget! Lover Man', 'Lady Sings the Blues', 'All of me' - she lays out the songs like shimmering pearls before her audience. Marijke Jaehrling sings the famous and lesser-known songs, sometimes cool, sometimes provocative, or with passion, such as Billie Holiday's worldwide hit from 1939, “Strange Fruit”. once again demonstrating her respectable vocal range” 

Starkenburger Echo, Sigrid Jahn

“Marijke Jaehrling offers not only her voice but also her soul to classic numbers like “That Ole Devil Called Love” or “Them There Eyes”. She brings both melancholic ballads and livelier numbers to life, thanks to her great voice and acting skills” 

Rhein-Main -Spitze, Sergio Presta

“Vocally and musically a mature success, accompanied by this jazz trio who, with great sensitivity, add the necessary grain of swing” 

Radio HR2, Martin Grunenberg

“A grandiose celebration of melancholy”.                                                                                               Main Echo, Jan Stich

 “Marijke Jährling sings in her very unique way, with great emotion and sensitivity, sometimes fragile, sometimes lascivious, cool, relaxed or with vibrato...”         Jazzpages, Klaus Mümpfer

 

 

 

 

"Spheres of Monk" , 2017 Dot Time Records, New York

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"Sounds great, Lady. Excellence"   Th. S. Monk, son of the legend

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„georgeous… (she has) a knack for original arrangements… that she ads her own lyrics to some songs is another advantage of the album that’s compilated with care”              Jazzthing    

 

„Dignified! Jährling sings the often complicated melodic  lines with a nonchalant matter of course. … … she takes the cake of originality!

Jazzthetic  

 

The artist's concept is absolutely exceptional  in the world of jazz. Marijke Jaehrling approaches the highly complex piano compositions of the jazz legend in such a way as to result in sophisticated arrangements for voice, piano, double bass, drums and saxophone/clarinette, which in every detail  make proof of the exceptional craftsmanship of Marijke Jaehrling, who also wrote her own lyrics for several of the songs, also in German and even French. Jaehrling's extremely agile voice is rich and varied, with a gentle warmth in the lower register and a sovereign maturity in the midrange and high notes with the lightness of a young girl. She has a natural agility that she displayed brilliantly in scats and vocalizations, as well as in the extreme ranges of Monk's songs.

Wormser Zeitung, Viktoria Selbert
 

 

"This is quite fancy“

Radio HR 2, Jazz Now                                 

 

“It’s said about Monk,  that he has developed a unique sense of ‘playing the right thing at the right moment’. Similarly, Marijke Jährling & Band succeeds in transmitting Monks musical vocabulary to a modern quintet and to transfer it, in addition, to a voice,this is almost bold. Great applause with the full crowd in" 

Ulfert Goeman, Darmstädter Echo  

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“An exciting experiment with fascinating arrangements”                                                                  Bettina Bergstedt, Allgemeine Zeitung

                                                             

 

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" Bonjour Liberté " 2024 ACEL, Paris

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"This is really, really good! It's a great arrangement, it's well recorded. It gives me goose bumps"     

Alf Haubitz, Radio HR2

 

"Supported by the elastic, swinging spirit of the  combo, Marijke Jaehrling has made a dozen works by Kurt Tucholsky and Kurt Weill her own, switching deftly between jazz, chanson and cabaret, with great care and empathy. Marijke sings the pieces with a sonorous, unpretentious voice, as an authentic signal of tolerance and freedom."

 Tobias Böcker, Jazzpodium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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