A long list of proposed, Berlin-centered songs got whittled down to nine titles plus adding two original instrumentals by Whigham and Cooper.

A ‘warm-up’, mini-tour of the album material before the recording session was presented at a concert on Schlosstheater Rheinsberg on November 18 to re-familiarize the Berlin Jazz Orchestra with the music.

The Peter Fox, 2008 mega-pop hit is arranged to feature Marc on a new, Cuban cha-cha-cha big band chart.

Simon Harrer is featured, the primary focus on trombone; Secara is written into the work doing a vocalised doubling of the melody.

Originally written in late 1989 shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, the Pink Floyd song is a timeless message.

[7] This is turned into a slow Gospel groove Secara sings and Nico Lohmann adds an alto sax statement.

[8] ‘Mackie’ is mordent and morose commentary, from Kurt Weill’s 1928 original work about post-industrial Berlin, "The Threepenny Opera."

Patrick Braun's sax solo reminds the listener of muscular tenor players such as Arnett Cobb or Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis.

Much like Tony Bennett’s anthem for San Francisco, both Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef are known for singing this hit of their beloved Berlin, of de:Ralph Maria Siegel’s 1951 song.

[9] Secara also did an hour long feature about Songs of Berlin on Carsten Beyer's "Late Night Jazz" on January 22, 2022, for RBB Radio in Brandenburg, Germany.

[11] All tracks are written by various composers, all selections adapted, arranged and orchestrated for jazz orchestra by Jack CooperProduction notes: Sessions contracted by Philipp Schoof for Viviendo Music.