Upcoming Dates - European Tour 2020
Fri, March 6-7
Sunset
Paris, France
8pm
Sat, March 8
Utopia Beach House Hotel
Barcelona, Spain
7:30pm
Tue, March 10
Dexter Live
Indspilning
9pm
Wed, March 11
Fat Jazz
Hamburg, Germany
8pm
Nearly Blue
Check out Bergonzi’s latest recording for Savant Records entitled “Nearly Blue”. Revisiting the swinging sound of organ trio, Jerry Bergonzi (tenor), Renato Chicco (organ) and Andrea Michelutti (drums) play standards from the great American songbook along with a couple of original compositions.
Tunes: It Might as well Be Spring, countdown, How About You?, Tectonic Plates, Nearly Blue, On Green Dolphin Street, We’ll Be Together Again, While You Were Out, Nice Work if You can get It, Laura, and bonus track Higgsboson
Instructional Content
My Music Masterclass
Musician, Adam Small, created mymusicmasterclass.com “in order to help ‘hungry’ musicians get the advice, tips and tricks of the world’s top professionals without the high cost of private lessons”.
Download Jerry’s videos including: Improvising with Melodic Shapes, Improvising with Triad Pairs, Bebop Scale Concepts and Pentatonic Improvisation
Jazz Heaven
Join Jerry at Jazzheaven.com for interactive live webinars and master classes targeted to all instruments and levels. Titles include: Creating a Jazz Vocabulary Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 and Saxophone Mastery
Compositions
Visit jeffellwood.com for free downloads of Bergonzi’s original compositions and re-harmonizations. Compiled by Jeff Ellwood: “The Music of Jerry Bergonzi Volumes 1 and 2” and “Re-Harmonization of Standards” “This project was a labor of love”, says Jeff. After learning that Jerry’s tunes were all handwritten, Jeff took on the challenge of making almost 200 tunes legible! They are all available on his website for free.
Master Your Mouthpiece
"What I look for in a mouthpiece is the ability to shape the sound that I hear in my head, along with ease of articulation. Drake mouthpieces do that for me."
Jerry Bergonzi
Known worldwide for its high quality, innovative design and unique material make up, Drake Mouthpieces, is the leading source for handcrafted saxophone mouthpieces. Aaron Drake personally hand faces and finishes every piece. He fashioned the Drake Jerry Bergonzi "EB" Masters Series Mouthpiece borrowing the most desirable aspects of Jerry’s Early Babbitt model.
“The design process was over two years in the making, with extensive input and feedback from Bergonzi at every stage. The result is a mouthpiece that generates a lustrous, lush, fat sound, in line with the best vintage mouthpieces of the era. The EB is a large, round chamber mouthpiece that incorporates the classic "crescent" shaped baffle, which transitions to a recalibrated floor contour. The tip and side rails are finished to Jerry's exact specifications. He prefers a slightly wider contour that facilitates a fat sound and stabilizes the attack.” Aaron Drake
Inside Improvisation Series
Published by Schott Music (available in multiple languages)
The seven book Inside Improvisation Series (for all instruments with book & audio play-along CD’s) describes a simple and pragmatic approach to improvisation. While focusing on the jazz idiom, the techniques discussed are applicable to many styles of music and all instruments, be it rock guitar, jazz saxophone, or the solos of the fusion keyboardist. The system created by Bergonzi offers a tangible pathway to inside the creative imagination by getting inside harmony, inside the changes. Chord changes are included for C concert, B-flat and E-flat instruments and examples are also transposed for all instruments. The accompanying recordings have been designed for use in conjunction with each of the chapter assignments.
Volume 1 - Melodic Structures
Volume 2 - Pentatonics
Volume 3 - Jazz Line
Volume 4 - Melodic Rhythms
Volume 5 - Thesaurus Melodies
Volume 6 - Developing A Jazz Language
Volume 7 – Hexatonics
Press
European Tour 2020
World-Renowned Tenor saxophonist and Drake Artist Jerry Bergonzi is on his way to Europe for a concert / clinic tour for the month of March. Please see schedule for performance dates. We hope you will be able to attend!
NEC Events
Visit Jerry’s faculty page for upcoming New England Conservatory Events.
New Video Series
Jerry is announcing a new video series ….
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