Bob Berg

Tenor saxophonist Bob Berg channeled the daring dynamics of hard bop to emerge as you of modern jazz’s most expressive and resourceful improvisers, honing a richly articulated audio bolstered by flawless techie command. Delivered in NEW YORK on Apr 7, 1951, Berg was raised in Brooklyn, initiating piano lessons at age group six. At 13, he transferred to alto saxophone, initial discovering jazz whenever a high school instructor introduced him towards the music of Cannonball Adderley and Horace Sterling silver. After dropping away from New York’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Performing Arts, Berg signed up for a special nonacademic curriculum on the Juilliard College of Music. In 1968, he produced his professional debut touring behind Sibling Jack port McDuff, and by enough time the 1960s drew to some close, he specific in tenor saxophone, his following creative route profoundly designed by John Coltrane. Following a short flirtation with free of charge jazz Berg renounced the avant-garde and only postwar bop. In the suggestion of fellow saxophonist Michael Brecker, he became a member of Gold in 1973, staying along with his boyhood hero for 3 years, when he changed George Coleman in Cedar Walton’s Eastern Rebellion. In 1978 Berg stepped out to record his debut LP, New Delivery, and after departing Walton in 1981 he trim his sophomore work, Steppin’: Reside in European countries; he increased to new degrees of renown upon signing up for Mls Davis in 1984, a three-year stint that place the stage for his 1987 breakout program, Short Tales. Berg shut out the 10 years in the music group he led with co-founder/guitarist Mike Stern, reducing some LPs including 1988’s Cycles and 1990’s Within the Shadows. In 1992, he agreed upon on with Chick Corea’s acoustic quartet, which same season led his very own quartet on the U.S. Division of State-sponsored tour from the Caribbean. Upon liberating the 1997 single date Another Regular, Berg became a member of an acoustic reincarnation of the group Methods Forward, and in 2000 he also became a member of the cooperative task the Jazz Occasions Superband, collaborating with Randy Brecker, Joey Defranchesco, and Dennis Chambers. Berg following surfaced alongside vibraphonist Joe Locke within the group 4 Wall space of Freedom. Unfortunately, their eponymous debut arranged did not show up until following the saxophonist’s loss of life in an car crash near his house on Long Isle on Dec 5, 2002.