Panzerballett

An innovative, hard 'n' heady mixture of jazz, funk and metal, crossing complex polyrhythms with metal guitar riffing, funky grooves and jazz improvisation: Bang your head with brains.

Jan Zehrfeld – guitar (born 1977 in Munich, Germany)

Studied jazz guitar at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria (with Karl

Ratzer), the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (Raul Björkenheim), at the Richard Strauss

Conservatory in Munich, Germany (Peter O'Mara), and was a member of the National Jazz

Orchestra (under Peter Herbolzheimer). He has performed with Klaus Doldinger's Passport,

Uwe Ochsenknecht and band, the Hilliard Ensemble, Wolfgang Schmidt, Roberto DiGioia,

Martin Schmitt, Wencke Myhre, The Croonettes, etc. Zehrfeld formed Panzerballett in 2004

driven by a desire to combine his hard rock roots with his deep understanding of and extensive

experience with jazz and thereby find the common denominator within the two essentially

different sound aesthetics.

Martin Mayrhofer – guitar (born 1969 in Munich, Germany)

Specialist for Frank Zappa, has already toured with Marco Minnemann's "Illegal Aliens".

Gregor Bürger – saxophone (born 1976 in Munich, Germany)

Leader, composer, and arranger of the big band "Earforce", Bürger studied jazz saxophone in

Linz, Austria, and Munich. Bürger was a member of both the Bavarian Youth and National Jazz

Orchestras, and has toured with The Temptations and funk trombonist Joseph Bowie.

Heiko Jung – bass (born 1982 in Memmingen, Germany)

Concluded his studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatory (Munich) with best notes, and was a

member of the Bavarian Youth Jazz Orchestra. In 2006 Jung won first prize with his group

"Fourscore" at the "Young Jazz Players" contest in Bavaria. He has played with, among others,

Claudio Roditi, Jay Ashby, Bobby Shew, Frank Greene, Martin Scales, and Werner Schmitt.

Sebastian Lanser – drums (born 1983 in Salzburg, Austria)

graduated with multiple certificates of merit from Anton Bruckner University in Linz, Austria. Has

played in workshops and concerts with such musicians as T. M. Stevens, and multi-percussionist

Martin Grubinger Jun.