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Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2008
Track listing: Traffic and Weather; We Appreciate Your Patience; Very Unbecoming; I Love New York at Christmas; Home Alone; Hit the Ground Runnin'; Where Are My Keys?; In Flower; Waiting Tables; A Household Name; Making It Up As We Go Along.

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Pianist/Arranger/Educator Shelly Berg Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist/Arranger/Educator Shelly Berg Interviewed at AAJ

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 ...

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Shelly Berg: New Moon Over Miami

Read "Shelly Berg: New Moon Over Miami" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


This title refers to the radical changes that are about to occur in music education, now that Shelton G. (Shelly) Berg has become dean of Miami University's school of music.Although 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 ...

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First Takes

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Wonder Why; Jitterbug Waltz; Virgo; Driftin'; Yesterdays; Three In One; Oil and Water; Tristeza; Tonk; You Must Believe in Spring.

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Shelly Berg & Frank Potenza: First Takes

Read "First Takes" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


In the liner notes to this piano-guitar duo album, Shelly Berg notes that there “often exists a love/hate relationship between the guitarist and pianist in a jazz band, with each jockeying for supremacy in creating chords and accompaniment." Upon reflection, I would have to say that this may be a reality on some occasions, but when ...

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Blackbird

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: All My Tomorrows; Estate; Blackbird; I Hear a Rhapsody; Question and Answer; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; All the Things You Are; Hot it Up; Blame it on the Sun; She's Always a Woman; If I Should Lose You; Julia.

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Shelly Berg: Blackbird

Read "Blackbird" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


It's evident from the first track that Blackbird is a superior trio release, as classy and swinging as they ever get. Seasoned with brilliance and sprinkled with wit, this recording is artfully paced and nicely balanced between ballads and burners--all of which is immediately obvious. What emerges only later, after reaching for the CD again and ...

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Article: Live Review

Shelly Berg at Catalina's

Read "Shelly Berg at Catalina's" reviewed by Jim Santella


Shelly Berg Trio Catalina Bar & Grill Hollywood, California January 20, 2005 Celebrating the release of Blackbird , his new CD on the Concord label, Shelly Berg brought his trio to Catalina's on a Thursday night for an intimate evening among friends and fans. With bassist Chuck Berghofer and drummer ...

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Shelly Berg: Blackbird

Read "Blackbird" reviewed by Jim Santella


This program of sensual ballads gives the Shelly Berg Trio plenty of room to express deep feelings about the music and about how jazz has given each member a long and fruitful career doing what he loves. Each solos frequently and passionately, but with subdued emphasis. A ballad caress needn't be amplified or swung hard. The ...

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Home With You

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: You Can Depend On Me; My Shining Hour; Home with You; Take the A Train; I Know What I've Got; This Can't Be Love; Be the One; Singing in the Rain; Street of Dreams; Sweet Georgia Brown; My Ideal; How Sweet It Is; Wonder Why


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