• Thomas Inderbinen Piccola Trombone
• Dave Monette customized mouthpieces TS11 + TS6 Slap Prana
• Shure SLX wireless Mic System

• Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra
• Salsabor - Salsa made in Luxembourg
• Harmonie Municipale de Dudelange
• Big Band Spectrum

• 2001 - Saarbrücken/Garage : On stage with Maynard Ferguson
• CD recording as 1st Trombone in Deutsche Bläserphilharmonie with Philipp Sparke (Between the Two Rivers 2004)

• Chicago : Street Player
• Nils Landgren & Funk Unit : Funky ABBA
• Michel Camilo : One more once
• Tower of Power : Soul with a Capital 'S'
• De la Soul : 3 Feet high & Rising
• Maurice Ravel : Piano Concerto in G

• Classical trombone studies with M. René Meyers 1979 - 1992 (Prix d'Excellence with distinction)
• Jazz Class of the Conservatory of Esch/Alzette 1997 - 2000 (1st price)
• Ecole de Musiques Nouvelles in Herchies (B) with Hervé Letor 2001 - 2004

Name : Helmut Engelhardt
Funky Mission : Saxes
Lives : Kaiserslautern (D)
Backline:

• Selmer Mk.6 Saxophones
• Gurdala Mouthpiece

Studies:

• Berklee College of Music (Boston/USA)
• Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt
• Münchener Ausbildungszentrum für Saxophon

Teachers : Joe Viola, Jürgen Seefelder, Peter Ponzol, Andy McGhee...

Musical collaborations with :
• Jazz : Slide Hampton, Jiggs Whigham, Peter Herbolzheimer, Barbara Dennerlein, Ack van Rooyen, Thilo Berg Big Band, Europool Jazzorchestra, Jim Snidero, Sylvia Droste, Bobby Burgess...
• Pop & Show : Voice Company with Xavier Naidoo, Howard Carpendale, Roberto Blanco, Joy Fleming, Hugo Strasser, Ingrid Peters, Bill Ramsey, Al Martino, Johnny Logan,.....

Musical inspiration: All the great jazz-players from the past & present (too many to name 'em all) - Good Soul & Pop Music

Most memorable gigs:

• Thilo Berg Big Band (mit P.Herbolzheimer, Ack van Rooyen, Slide Hampton und Jiggs Whigham) 1985/1988
• The Voice Company (mit Xavier Naidoo) 1997/1998
• Jesus Christ Superstar  (2003/2004)
• Shockheaded Peter (2007/2009) am Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.
• Funky P

Disks to take to desert island:

• Miles Davis: KInd Of Blue
• John Coltrane: Ballads
• Michael Brecker: Nearness Of You
• Steel Dan : Aja
• Sting: Bring on the Night

Name : Isaac Roosevelt
Funky Mission : Singin'
Born: Yes

I am a black man. We are born singing (church choir) in the Army Band as singer when I came to Germany
Other Bands:
The Real Soul Man (Saarland), Midnight Movers (K-Town)
Shiny Toyz (Saarland), A Couple of Souls (Saarland)
Kosmik Soul (Heidelberg), Soul Providers (K-Town)
Mothership Connection (K-Town), Key Ballade (Frankfurt)
Ocean’s Eleven (Stuttgart), The Klimmer Band (K-Town)
M13 (Heidelberg), San Salvador (K-Town) – etc …
Musical inspiration: Lionel Richie is a big influence. He experiments outside of the normal “soul music” format – Earth Wind & Fire (Band total)
Most memorable gigs:
MAX SMELLING AREANA with 10 of the Berlin Thunder Cheerleaders dancing around me (8000 people in the audience) and I only had to do one Original song (Heaven)
Disks to take to desert island:
Anything by CHICAGO or the POINTER SISTERS

Name : Claude 'Minimi' Schaus
Funky Mission : Keyboards, Compositions & Arrangements
Born: Yes !
Lives : ???
Backline:
- Korg Karma
- Nord Stage 88
- Access Virus TI
First gig played: When I was 11 years old, playing clarinet in the local music band, can't really remember on what occasion, just that I was the first to reach the end of the song and very proud of it!!
Other Bands:
Chameleon, D-Fused, Blues Cocktail, Agharta Project, Indian Summer, Abbey's Jazz 4-tet, Carl Wyatt... and everywhere someone needed a keyboard player! Right now I'm playing with Claudine Muno and the Lunaboots, BigBand Opus78 and the Nobbie Dixie Band.
Musical inspiration: Beer has always provided the best musical inspiration and still does!!!
Most memorable gigs:
... every FunkyP gig
Disks to take to desert island:
forget about disks... I simply would take my I-Pod, less cumbersome.