Bob Berg Iconic Jazz Style

Olegario Diaz

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Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listeners--the qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music. And the respect that the best players command can frequently be measured by the behavior of their fellow professionals in the audience. Bob Berg, the lean, flint-featured American saxophonist, often received that kind of attention. Berg's particular skill was the kind of high-energy, tenor-sax style that became ubiquitous after the 1960s, an avalanche of hard-edged sounds, dissonant high-register brays and a dense, accumulative melodic approach. Berg's technique, though not the equal of his contemporary Michael Brecker, was good enough to avoid emphasizing the idea that any of this was an effort (thereby relieving it of grandstanding effects) But, like Sonny Rollins (whom he often resembled), Bob Berg's unaccompanied soliloquies and intros could be among his most remarkable achievements--a little drier and less inclined to quotation and irony than Rollins, but almost as full of heart and surprise.

Berg had developed a saxophone style ideally suited to a groove-based but melodically freewheeling music, Through it all, Berg's solos combine clear virtuosity with vivid thematic construction. Eminently accessible without sacrificing integrity, Remembering Bob Berg serves as a bittersweet reminder of a loss that, sadly, is greater than many truly realize. This book covers new concepts regarding post-bop and cut-ting edge jazz improvisation in a practical way.

It is aimed at intermediate to advanced students. It provides new tools for performance in contemporary jazz improvisation. It covers all of my previously published books and adds brand new exercises and line phrases form transcriptions. Chromatic, linear, intervalic, arpeggios, extensions and passing tones in accordance to the chord and scale at any given time are included. Each exercise is transported to be played in all 12 keys.

Always remember, JAZZ IS ALIVE.

About the author

Olegario Diaz is a composer/pianist, born in Venezuela. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), earning a Bachelor in Composition. And received a Master in Jazz Studies at the Manhattan School of Music (New York, USA)

He has performed as a pianist in the New York and West Coast areas with artists such as Tito Puente, Willie Bobo, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon, Jose Fajardo, Luis Ramirez, Afro-Cubans, Mario Bauza Big Band, Paquito Rivera, Victor Paz, Daniel Ponce and many others. Mr. Diaz still plays in USA and South America with many different Latin and Jazz bands.

For his SteepleChase debut album, he surrounded himself with the finest artists one can find on the NY jazz scene: Rich Perry (on Tenor Sax), Ron McClure (on Bass) and Billy Hart (on Drums).

And for his second SteepleChase album, he was reunited with artists like Randy Brecker, Lewis Nash as well as Ron McClure and Rich Perry.

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