Jazz Articles about Chuck Bergeron

About Chuck Bergeron

Album Review

There is a certain confidence that comes with age and experience. It is the kind that allows a musician to gather friends, trust their instincts, and let the music tell its own story. Bassist Chuck Bergeron's Bass and Face feels exactly like that. As one of Florida's long-admired and versatile players, Bergeron proves himself to be an equally thoughtful curator. What makes this release inviting is that Bergeron surrounds himself with an extraordinary lineup of vocal personalities, each bringing a ...

Radio & Podcasts

Duchess, Chuck Bergeron, Le Boeuf Brothers, Fjall

by Cheryl K.
June 13, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--pianist Kemuel Roig; the vocal trio Duchess; bassist/composer Chuck Bergeron; the Le Boeuf Brothers; the Claudio Scolari Project; and the quartet Fjall.Playlist Chick Corea-Steve Gadd “Serenity" from Chinese Butterfly (Stretch) 6:39 Kemuel Roig “How Can I Be Sure" from Both Sides Now (Life In Music) 4:29 Duchess “Is That All There Is?" from A Marvelous Party (Anzic) 4:52 Hannah Marks “Shadow Woman" from Feed the Fire (Endectomorph) 3:08 Chuck ...

Album Review

South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza

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by Jack Bowers
October 10, 2020

In 2019, the acclaimed Michigan-bred, Paris-based tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza thought he was being asked to contribute a couple of charts to the University of South Florida Jazz Orchestra's fifth recording in its fifteen-year history as a working ensemble. But when SFJO founder and leader Chuck Bergeron looked at the charts he had an even better idea, and asked Margitza to write and / or arrange everything on the album, which thus became Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza. ...

Album Review

South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza

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by Pierre Giroux
October 8, 2020

The concept of a large, tightly-knit big band in a recording studio, on a concert or jazz club stage may just be a plug-in memory in today's environment. Fortunately there is the fifteenth anniversary recording of The South Florida Jazz Orchestra directed by bassist/bandleader Chuck Bergeron, entitled Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza, to remind us what a disciplined inventive big band sounds like. With the exception of George and Ira Gershwin's “Embraceable You," all the other ...

Album Review

The South Florida Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Gary Lindsay / Are We Still Dreaming

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by Jack Bowers
September 20, 2018

When a big band devotes an entire album to the compositions and arrangements of one musician, the obvious opening question is: why? In other words, who is Gary Lindsay and why is the South Florida Jazz Orchestra performing his music? In brief, the answer is that Lindsay, an alto saxophonist and well-respected educator, has written and arranged music for Maynard Ferguson, the U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note and Florida Philharmonic, among others, and was nominated for a Grammy Award ...

Album Review

Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery

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by Jerome Wilson
March 21, 2018

Roberto Magris is an Italian pianist who has an eclectic range of interests but is heavily in thrall to the masters of American bebop. On this particular live recording he leads a sextet that gives that language a pronounced Latin twist leading to a set of fiery performances. Magris uses two horn players, trumpeter Brian Lynch and tenor saxophonist Jonathan Gomez, who are explosive throughout, especially on the tunes that have an underlying Latin flavor such as “African ...

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Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery

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by Jack Bowers
January 5, 2018

Since recording his first album as a leader in 1982, Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris has added thirty more to his impressive resume, the most recent of which is this high-powered sextet date, Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery. The session is somewhat of a departure in that most of Magris' earlier albums have been set down in a studio, either in the U.S. or abroad. And while he has recorded in more than forty countries, this was Magris' ...