Bengt Berger

Bengt Berger (born 31 August 1942 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz musician (drummer), composer and producer.[1]

Bengt Berger
Background information
Born31 August 1942 (1942-08-31) (age 77)
Stockholm, Sweden
GenresJazz
InstrumentsDrums
Associated acts Don Cherry

Berger has studied north and south Indian music since the 1960s with Pandit Taranath Rama Rao and Mridangam Vidwan P.S. Devarajan and plays the tabla and mridangam.

Discography

  • Spelar (1978)
  • Bitter Funeral Beer (ECM, 1981)
  • Praise Drumming (Dragon, 1987)
  • Tarang (Rub-a-Dub, 1995)
  • All Time High (Amigo, 1999)
  • Live in Frankfurt 82 (Country & Eastern, 2007)
  • Beches Brew (Country & Eastern, 2009)
  • Blues for E.D (Gazell, 2012)
  • The Vedbod Tapes (Country & Eastern, 2012)
  • Beches Brew Big (Country & Eastern, 2013)
  • Blue Blue With Knutsson, Spering, Schultz (2015)
  • Gothenburg (Country & Eastern, 2018)

As sideman

gollark: Would people not stop buying them when everyone who uses them ceases to exist?
gollark: With 50% probability sort of maybe ish.
gollark: From the point of view of the company selling the drive, it isn't.
gollark: Surely the original universe might find the nonexistence of anyone travelling with it problematic.
gollark: I'd assume they still use it for shipping tangle channels, at least.

References

  1. Bengt Berger - Beches Brew, review in All About Jazz (2009)
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