Jazz Articles about Albert Beger

Albert Beger 5: Listening

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 25, 2004

“We don't determine music, the music determines us; we only follow it to the end of our life: then it goes on without us." --Steve Lacy

Israeli free jazz saxophonist Albert Beger, 45, has dedicated his fifth disc, Listening , to the late great saxophonist Steve Lacy. But unlike the Lacy quote, on Listening Beger delays his surrender to the music and opts for a more accessible musical statement. This disc, the first outing with a ...