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Acts of Love

Label: Mutable Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Act of Love 101; Act of Love 102; Act of Love 103; Act of Love 104; Act of Love 105; Act of Love 106; Act of Love 107; Act of Love 108; Act of Love 109; Act of Love 110.

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Borah Bergman / Lol Coxhill / Paul Hession: Acts of Love

Read "Acts of Love" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
July 13, 2006

The number of piano/reeds/percussion trios in the history of improvised music can probably be counted on a single hand, but some of them have been highly influential. Cecil Taylor's trio recorded such a set in 1962 at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen, the entrée into free percussion beginning with Sunny Murray's fragmented bebop impulsions as Taylor ...

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Toronto 1997

By Borah Bergman

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: A Suite for Terry Chapin Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4A - Part 4B - Part 4C - Part 5.

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Acts Of Love

By Borah Bergman

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2005

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Borah Bergman: You Must Judge A Man By The Work of His Hands

by AAJ Staff
November 4, 2005

Borah Bergman is a one-of-a-kind pianist, composer and improviser whose originality lies in his entirely unique approach and utilization of left-handed and cross-handed techniques. Influenced by Lennie Tristano's hornlike phrasing and Monk's stride, Bergman has prolifically released on average one to two CDs a year since the early '90s (primarily solos and duos) featuring Thomas Chapin, ...

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Borah Bergman and Tom Chapin: Toronto 1997

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by Clifford Allen
January 23, 2005

Naked confrontation, or a pact made between two individuals to make something from nothing... freely improvised duets are, if not the “meat and potatoes" or backbone of free music, then at least one of the truest expressions of such an art form. A dialogue formed between two individuals, each with their own language, is that call-and-response ...

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The Mahout

By George Haslam

Label: Slam Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. The Mahout - 11:01 2. M.E.W. - 3:19 3. Streams - 8:08 4. Ancient Stars - 7:21 5. The Varmint (For Jack Elam) - 5:23 6. Dusk - 4:48 7. Zircon - 8:19

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Meditations for Piano

By Borah Bergman

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Meditation 1 (Bergman) - 3:11 2. Meditation 2 (Bergman) - 12:48 3. Meditation 3 (Bergman) - 7:08 4. Meditation 4 (Bergman) - 7:32 5. Meditation 5 (Bergman) - 7:26 6. Meditation 6 (Bergman) - 6:59 7. Meditation 7 (Bergman) - 1:34

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Borah Bergman: Meditations for Piano

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by AAJ Staff
February 15, 2004

In a day and age of recording over-saturation, most covering too much ground over the course of a 70-plus minute CD, Bergman’s Meditations for Piano remains focused on a massaging mood established from note one to the final minute-and-half “Meditation 7,” all in under 50 very digestible minutes. Influenced early on by Lennie ...

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