Jiggs Whigham directs the Berlin Jazz Orchestra and the Frankfurt Strings – together with star vocalists Sylvia Vrethammer, Marc Secara and the Berlin Voices as well as with some of Kaempfert’s former fellow musicians as soloists: Ladi Geisler, Ack van Rooyen and Herb Geller.

North-German Radio (NDR) staged an anniversary concert on 5 October in Hamburg’s Kehrwieder Theater. This was recorded live and broadcast as a major celebration at 8 p.m. on 19 October in the radio series Sonnatakte on NDR 90.3.

From 11 p.m. until midnight on 11 October, Radio Berlin Brandenburg (rbb) in its radio series Late Night Jazz broadcast a recording of the concert given on 15 February in Berlin’s Grosser Sendesaal.

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