Bengt Berger

Swedish musician
Bengt Berger
Background information
Born (1942-08-31) 31 August 1942 (age 82)
Stockholm, Sweden
GenresJazz
InstrumentDrums
Musical artist

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

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

  • Lennart Aberg, Green Prints (Caprice, 1986)
  • Don Cherry, Organic Music Society (Carpice, 1973)
  • Don Cherry, Eternal Now (Sonet, 1974)
  • Dag Vag, Almanacka (Silence, 1983)
  • Zia Mohiuddin Dagar & Pandit Taranath, Live In Stockholm 1969 (Country & Eastern, 2015)
  • Eagle-Eye Cherry, Desireless (Polydor, 1998)
  • Mecki Mark Men, Mecki Mark Men (Universal, 2008)
  • Mynta, Short Conversation (Fat & Tapes, 1985)
  • Rena Rama, Jazz I Sverige 73 (Caprice, 1973)
  • Bernt Rosengren, Notes from Underground (Harvest, 1974)

References

  1. ^ Bengt Berger - Beches Brew, review in All About Jazz (2009)
  • http://www.beche.se/ Bengt Berger's site
  • http://www.countryandeastern.se/ Country & Eastern site
  • http://www.myspace.com/bengtberger Bengt Berger's MySpace
  • https://www.youtube.com/bengtberger Bengt Bergers YouTube
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