Bob Berg
Birth name Robert Berg
Born (1951-04-07)April 7, 1951
Origin New York, USA
Died December 5, 2002(2002-12-05) (aged 51)
Genres
Hard bop
Post bop
Occupations Musician
Instruments Saxophone
Labels Stretch Records, Denon, GRP
Associated acts Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Mike Stern, Chick Corea

Bob Berg (April 7, 1951 – December 5, 2002) was a jazz saxophonist originally from Brooklyn, New York City. He started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. Bob Berg was a Juilliard graduate influenced heavily by the late 1964–67 period of John Coltrane's music. He was known for his extremely expressive playing and tone.

A student from the hard bop school, he played from 1973 to 1976 with Horace Silver and from 1977 to 1983 with Cedar Walton. Berg became more widely known through his short period in the Miles Davis band. He left Davis's band in 1987 after recording only one album with them.

After leaving Davis's band, Berg released a series of solo albums and also performed and recorded frequently in a group co-led with guitarist Mike Stern. On these albums he played a more accessible style of music, mixing funk, jazz and even country music with many other diverse compositional elements to produce albums that were always musical. He often played at the 7th Ave South NYC club. He worked with Chick Corea, Steve Gadd and Eddie Gomez in a great quartet. His tenor saxophone sound was a synthesis of rhythm and blues players like Junior Walker and Arnett Cobb with the lyricism, intellectual freedom and soul of Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and John Coltrane.

He was killed in a road traffic accident in East Hampton, NY while driving to buy groceries with his wife Arja. The person who crashed into his car was driving a cement truck that accidentally skidded on ice.

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Discography [link]

As leader [link]

  • New Birth (1978; Xanadu Records)
  • Steppin': Live in Europe (1982)
  • Short Stories (1987) Denon Records
  • Cycles (1988)
  • Live at the Sweet Basil with Randy Brecker [Sonet]
  • In the Shadows (1990)
  • New York Journey with M. Genoud, J.C. Lavanchy, I. Malherbe (1990) [Preludio Productions]
  • Back Roads (1991)
  • Virtual Reality (1992)
  • Enter the Spirit (1993)
  • Riddles (1994)
  • The Best of Bob Berg (1995)
  • Another Standard (1997)
  • Jazz Times Superband (2000)

As sideman [link]

With Miles Davis

With Horace Silver

With Dizzy Gillespie

With Cedar Walton

  • First Set (1979) [Steeplechase]
  • Second Set (1979) [Steeplechase]
  • Third Set (1979) [Steeplechase]
  • Animation (1979) [CBS]
  • Eastern Rebellion 3 (1979) [Timeless]

With Chick Corea

With Mike Stern

  • Upside Downside (1986)
  • Time in Place (1988)
  • Jigsaw (1989)
  • Odds or Evens (1991)
  • Standards and Other Songs (1992)

With Wolfgang Muthspiel

  • Timezones (1989)

With Tom Coster

  • Let's Set The Record Straight (1993) [JVC]
  • The Forbidden Zone (1994) [JVC]

External links [link]


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The Water Is Wide

"The Water Is Wide" might refer to:

  • The Water Is Wide (book) (1972), by Pat Conroy
  • The Water Is Wide (2006 film), a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie based on Pat Conroy's book
  • The Water Is Wide (song), an English folk song of Scottish origin
  • The Water Is Wide (album) by jazz musician Charles Lloyd
  • "The Water is Wide" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit
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    The Water Is Wide (album)

    The Water Is Wide is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in December 1999 by Lloyd with Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie, Larry Grenadier, and Billy Higgins with Darek Oles guesting on one track.These tracks are among the last recorded by Higgins before his death in 2001. Additional tracks recorded at these sessions were released as Hyperion with Higgins in 2001.

    Reception

    The Allmusic review by David R. Adler awarded the album 4 stars calling it "a glorious amalgam of sound". The All About Jazz review by Glenn Astarita stated "Charles Lloyd has rarely sounded better as the musicians seemingly interrogate each other’s souls during these sixty-eight enlightening minutes. Without a doubt, The Water Is Wide should find its way into quite a few top ten lists for the year 2000. Highly recommended". In another review for the same website C. Andrew Hovan stated "the chemistry is solid throughout, making Lloyd’s seventh ECM album particularly special".

    Track listing

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    The Water Is Wide (book)

    The Water Is Wide is a 1972 memoir by Pat Conroy and is based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book. The book is sometimes identified as nonfiction and other times identified as a novel.

    Yamacraw is a poor island lacking bridges and having little infrastructure. The book details Conroy's efforts to communicate with the islanders, who are nearly all directly descended from slaves and who have had little contact with the mainland or its people. He struggles to find ways to reach his students, ages 10 to 13, some of whom are illiterate or innumerate, and all of whom know little of the world beyond Yamacraw. Conroy (called "Conrack" by most of the students) does battle with the principal, Mrs. Brown, over his unconventional teaching methods and with the administrators of the school district, whom he accuses of ignoring the problems at the Yamacraw school.

    A film adaptation, titled Conrack, was created in 1974, starring Jon Voight. A Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie titled The Water Is Wide, starring Jeff Hephner and Alfre Woodard, was made in 2006.

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    The Water Is Wide

    by: Charlotte Church

    The water is wide, I can not get o'er
    And neither have I wings to fly
    Give me a boat that will carry two
    And both shall row... my love and I.
    Their love is plentive... o'er there it grows
    It grows and blossoms like a rose
    It has a sweet and pleasant smell
    No flower on earth can it excel.
    The ship there is and she sails the sea
    She's loaded deep as deep can be
    But not so deep as the love I'm in
    I know not if I sink or swim.
    Oh, love is handsome and love is fine
    And loves a jewel when it is new
    But rain it above it grows so cold




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