David Berger & The Sultans Of Swing

b. 30 March 1949, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Berger used the trumpet young, studying within the middle-60s at Berklee University Of Music. Following that he continuing his research, in composing and organizing, at Ithaca University, the Eastman College of Music as well as the Manhattan College of Music. He also continuing learning trumpet with, amongst others, Jimmy Maxwell. In the beginning of the 70s he performed in NEW YORK in rings led by Maxwell, Lee Castle and Mercer Ellington, and in addition spent period with Chuck Israels’ Country wide Jazz Outfit. His compositions and plans have already been performed by many mentioned rings including Thad Jones – Mel Lewis, Lee Konitz, Friend High, Clark Terry, Stanley Turrentine and Wynton Marsalis as well as the Lincoln Middle Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble which Berger in addition has conducted on several events, including for documenting sessions along with a Classical Jazz Xmas on television. Specifically drawn to the music of Duke Ellington, Berger offers led orchestras collected together for unique shows of his function. In the middle-90s, Berger made up a large amount of new music to become performed together with Ellington’s and Billy Strayhorn’s ‘The Nutcracker Collection’. The effect, The Harlem Nutcracker, prolonged Ellington’s and Strayhorn’s function until it had been about four occasions the space. This fresh opus, performed by Berger’s Sultans Of Golf swing, received rave notices wherever it had been performed, including concerts in NY, Chicago, LA as well as for three successive years in Detroit. Berger, who in addition has written for movies, is really a sought-after musical educator and it has taught at many chairs of learning like the Hartt University of Music, New York’s the brand new College, William Patterson University as well as the Manhattan College of Music. In 2001, he was appointed Teacher of Structure and Organizing for the brand new Jazz Studies Plan at Juilliard College of Music.