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Bergman, Borah

Meditation For Piano

Bergman, Borah: Meditation For Piano (Tzadik)


 

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Borah Bergman-Piano


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UPC: 702397718024

Label: Tzadik
Catalog ID: TZA-CD-7180
Squidco Product Code: 1808

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2003
Country: USA
Packaging: Jewel Tray

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This is Borah Bergman as youÕve never heard him before. Hypnotic and soulful ballads in the cantorial tradition reminiscent of Glenn Gould or Bill Evans. Beautifully recorded on a premium Steinway, BergmanÕs prodigious technique, deep harmonic knowledge and endless creativity has never been more striking. An incredibly personal document by one of the great pianists of our time.



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"Borah Bergman (December 13, 1926 Š October 18, 2012) was an American free jazz pianist.

Bergman was born in Brooklyn to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. His grandfather Meir Pergamenick was a cantor. Accounts of when he began to learn the piano vary: some assert that he learned clarinet as a child and did not commence his piano studies until adulthood; others, that he had piano lessons from a young age; one of his own accounts is that he took piano lessons as a child, then changed to clarinet, before returning to piano after being discharged from the army. As an adult, he developed his left hand playing to the point where he became essentially ambidextrous as a pianist, and could play equally fast in both hands, and they could act completely independently of each other; Bergman himself preferred the term "ambi-ideation" to "ambidextrous", as it conveyed the added ability to express ideas achieved when both hands were equal. Bergman cited Earl Hines, Bud Powell, and Lennie Tristano as formative influences, although his own style was based on free improvisation rather than song form. Commenting on his other influences, Bergman said that "I was influenced strongly by Ornette Coleman... I was also very influenced by chamber music and Bach and Dixieland or New Orleans, where all of the instruments were playing contrapuntally and polyphonically. So I figured I'd like to do it myself".

Until the 1970s he played little in public, concentrating on private practice and his work as a school teacher. He recorded four albums as a soloist, most notably on the European label Soul Note, before embarking on duo and trio albums from the 1990s. A small number of solo and quartet albums were also released from the mid-1990s. The style for which he is best known is described in The Penguin guide to jazz recordings: "His astonishing solo performances recall the 'two pianists' illusion associated with Art Tatum, though in a more fragmentary and disorderly sound-world"."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borah_Bergman)
3/27/2024

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Meditations 1-7

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