*How to Practice Jazz* MASTER Jerry Bergonzi spills the Beans JazzHeaven.com Video Excerpt
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- Go to jazzheaven.com/jerry1 for more FREE Jerry Bergonzi Videos! This was an excerpt from Jerry Bergonzi How to Play Jazz Exercises Video entitled "Creating a Jazz Vocabulary." Jam-packed Jazz Improvisation Lessons: 2h Lesson, 60-min Interview, Performances, Play-Along MP3s, PDFs and lots MORE.
A master jazz saxophonist AND master jazz improvisation teacher!
A rare combination, indeed.
Also feat. Brian Levy (sax/piano).
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Tenor saxophonist, Jerry Bergonzi, is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author and educator. His music is renowned for its innovation, mastery, and integrity. Relentless drive, inner fire, total command, awesome technique, elastic lyricism, rich resonance, world-class, a musical visionary, are among the rave reviews credited to his sound. Bergonzi's music has been applauded throughout the world at festivals, concert halls, and jazz venues and his dedication to jazz music has been well documented by an extensive discography.
The Italian label, Red Records, was Bergonzi's greatest supporter. "Red Records was the first label that really believed in my music." says Jerry. They released four CD's with Bergonzi as the leader, including, Lineage, a live recording featuring Mulgrew Miller, Dave Santoro, and Adam Nussbaum. Jerry later played with the Red Record all-stars including Kenny Barron, and Bobby Watson, as well as on a number of other Red releases with Salvatore Tranchini, Fred Hersch, and Alex Riel. He has also performed and recorded with the George Gruntz Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra (Miles Davis in Montreaux), and 12 Jazz Visits in Copenhagan for Stunt Records. The Riel Deal, on Stunt, featured drummer Alex Riel, Kenny Werner and Jesper Lundgaard, and was awarded a Grammy in Denmark for best jazz recording in 1997. An association with Daniel Humair and the late J.F.Jenny Clark yielded a number of recordings for the French, Label Bleu. One of which was Bergonzi's CD, Global Summit, it featured Tiger Okoshi, Joachim Kuhn, Daniel Humair and Dave Santoro. This was the product of one of three National Endowments awarded Bergonzi. Another project with pianist Kuhn won the accolade Best Jazz Album in France 1992. Among the many other artists that Bergonzi has performed and recorded with are; John Abercrombie, Nando Michelin, Antonio Farao, Bill Evans (with the National Jazz Ensemble), Joe D'Orio, Eddie Gomez, Miroslaz Vitous, George Mraz, Billy Hart, Andy Laverne, Steve Swallow, Hal Galper, Roy Haynes, Charlie Mariano, Bob Cranshaw, Ray Drummond, Billy Drummond, Danny Richmond, Danny Gottlieb, Dave Holland, Jack DeJonette, Paul Desmond, Bennie Wallace, Gerry Mulligan, Hal Crook, Herb Pomeroy, Mike Manieri, Mark Johnson, Michel Portal, Marcel Solal, Pat Martino, Franco Ambrosetti, and many more.
The Double-Time Records label has released most of Bergonzi's recent work. Just Within, Lost in the Shuffle, Wiggy, and A Different Look, were recorded by Bergonzi's burning organ trio, with Dan Wall and Adam Nussbaum. Also on Double-Time, The Dave Santoro Standard recordings feature Bergonzi's swinging tenor along with drummer Tom Melito and pianists Bruce Barth and Renato Chicco. As a band leader, Bergonzi has performed worldwide at the Red Sea, San Remo, Moomba, and North Sea Jazz festivals, to name a few. He has appeared at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Canada and Valencia, Spain with fellow saxophonist Philippe Geiss. Bergonzi's performance at the Subway in Cologne has been featured on the German TV series, Round Midnight. His quartet performs at Duc de Lombarde in Paris, the Fasching in Stockholm, the Jazz House in Copenhagan, and the Bird's Eye in Basel, and many others.
Today, Bergonzi makes his home in Boston area with his wife and two children. He continues to teach and perform worldwide. He endorses Selmer Saxophones, Rico Reeds and Zildjian Cymbals.
"This guy is the real tower of power.....His bold penetrating tone and furiously paced streams of notes make for a commanding voice indeed. His passionate improvisations are marked by a consistency of strength in every register and a penchant for harmonic development." Bill Milkowski Downbeat Review
Hope you enjoyed this lesson on how to practice jazz
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I love how he speaks about raj - yoga at 2:30. A little elaboration
Raj yoga or the yoga for kings consists of ashtanga or 8 stages :
1. Yama : self control
2. Niyama : discipline
3. Asana : practice
4. Pranayama : breathing control/ excercise
5. Pratyahara : withdrawal of senses from external objects
6. Dharna : concentration
7. Dhyana : meditation
8. Samadhi : complete realization
a great man with agreat message for all improvisers....thank you
LOL...White Light! Jerry is the best!
Advice from a master musician.👍🎷🎶
i love you master!
...man - 'always appreciate your info and the vibe. THANKS!
Thanks again Jerry! As always, this was interesting an extremely useful. There's an old piano technique book by Walter Geiseking where much of the material is based on visualization techniques. There have been studies of basketball players improving their technique by visualizing making free throws. Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge and expertise.
Very well said. True....
I love this excerpt. I'd like to get hold of the full lesson.
See link at beginning of description. ;) Or here: JazzHeaven.com/jerry1
As usuaL with Jerry interesting, useful and encouraging
Genius!!!! :D
Im a guitar player, thank you for your insight.!
I know what you mean! In my case I find that practicing something on one instrument transferrs to another instrument very easily and I think it has do with the brain. I think one of the largest aspects of practicing is training your BRAIN to think ahead, order things correctly and understand the patterns involved. The fingers are just obeying the brain's command. Mental practicing also illuminates this as you can practice without an instrument ALMOST as effectively becasue you've thought it thru
Great Musician, Person , right words ...that's it..
just calm down and vibrate high
You MUST have the changes absorbed before you can work on them!
Has anyone noticed this : when I practise a piano scale, chord, passage or whatever, in one hand, the other hand seems to pick it up also. Not to the same degree, but certainly as if I had practised it in that hand. The most peculiar aspect of this is that the fingerings may be very different in the unpractised and but that doesn't seem to matter
Don Byas (no slouch he) did the same in his later years.
With other words: Let it flow
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