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Espen Berg: The Trondheim Concert - A Fully Improvised Piano Concert And Live Recording
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Vivo Musique Internationale
Five years after releasing his second solo album, Acres of Blue, Espen Berg decided to present a fully improvised piano concert in a live recording. This one-taker is a culmination of years of development, reflection and research. The music, created in the moment, reflects his emotions in a profound way, and every time he plays, it’s different. Every second of music is unique, and it feels like an endless resource, both musically and spiritually. The Trondheim Concert was recorded at ...
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Miami's Jazz Roots Concert Series with New Artistic Advisor Shelly Berg
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All About Jazz
November 4, 2016 through April 7, 2017 The JAZZ ROOTS annual six-part concert series held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for The Performing Arts, has become a musical institution in the jazz world often credited with helping to revitalize, nurture and spur the expansion of Jazz music in the south Florida area and beyond. Created in 2008 by the Center and co-founder Larry Rosen, musician, producer and industry entrepreneur, who passed away in 2015, the series is known ...
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Stanislaw Soyka & The Roger Berg Big Band Release "Swing Revisited"
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Mikolaj Gajewski
American swing played with bravado by leading Polish jazzman Stanislaw Soyka and the Roger Berg Big Band. In their rendition, recorded at sessions in Malmö and Warsaw, the artists refreshed jazz standards by Duke Ellington and Ray Charles among others. Swing Revisited is an album by Stanislaw Soyka, a noted Polish jazz singer, and the Roger Berg Big Band, a Swedish-Danish constellation. Their collaboration stemmed from a spontaneous jam session at the band's first Warsaw concert. ”I was just overwhelmed ...
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Grammy Announcement For Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - "This Time / Last Year!"
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Kris Berg
We are proud to announce that Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - This Time / Last Year, featuring Wayne Bergeron, Delfeayo Marsalis, Clay Jenkins and Chris Vadala was nominated for the following categories in the First Round of the Grammy Awards. Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - This Time / Last Year: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Night Dreamer - Clay Jenkins / Pah Dah Pah Dah - Wayne Bergeron Best Instrumental ...
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Shelly Berg On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, pianist Shelly Berg joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand in San Antonio for a free-wheeling jam session. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. The LA Times calls him “a whirlwind of motion on the piano bench.” He’s a composer, arranger, educator, conductor, and jazz piano virtuoso. He recorded with Woody Herman, Louis Bellson, ...
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Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, Art Tatum took solo ...
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Shelly Berg plays James P. Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Shelly Berg, pianist and Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, plays the music of James P. Johnson with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, Sirius/XM and can be streamed from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. Pianist James P. Johnson is a little-known genius of American music. His style of piano playing became known as 'stride' and was a bridge ...
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Pianist/Arranger/Educator Shelly Berg Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Although Shelly Berg is widely considered one of the most eloquent, swinging, and accomplished pianists in jazz, to date he's more famous as an educator. Berg was President of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) from 1996-98; he spent eight years chairing the department of jazz studies at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, during which he raised its profile to one of the top programs in the country. He was the McCoy/Sample Endowed Professor of ...
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Shelton G. Berg Named Frost School of Music Dean
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All About Jazz
The University of Miami has announced the appointment of Shelton G. Berg as the new dean of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music. Berg, the McCoy/Sample Endowed Professor of Jazz Studies in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California will replace William Hipp, who has served as dean since 1983. He is an internationally recognized pianist, composer, arranger, and educator and is widely acclaimed for his energetic and innovative approaches to jazz performance, composition, ...
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Acclaimed Musician, Composer and Educator Shelton G. Berg Named Frost School of Music Dean
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All About Jazz
CORAL GABLES, FL - The University of Miami has announced the appointment of Shelton G. Berg as the new dean of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music. Berg, the McCoy/Sample Endowed Professor of Jazz Studies in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC) will replace William Hipp, who has served as dean since 1983. He is an internationally recognized pianist, composer, arranger, and educator and is widely acclaimed for his energetic and innovative ...
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