Albert Beger

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Albert Beger (* 1959 in Istanbul ) is an Israeli jazz and improvisation musician ( soprano saxophone , tenor saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Beger grew up in Israel, where his parents immigrated when he was three years old. After completing his military service, he studied classical music with the flutist Uri Teplitz ; before switching to the tenor saxophone in his mid-twenties. At the age of 27, he received a scholarship to study at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. During this time he worked on the music of Albert Ayler , John Coltrane , Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago . He played from the early 1990s in the formation Changes , with which the first recordings were made; In 1997 he recorded his debut album This Life , with John Bostock (keyboards), Gabriel Meir (bass) and Asaf Sirkis (drums). Hevel Havalim (Earsay) followed in 2002 , with Gabriel Meyer (bass) and Hagai Fershtman (drums). He also worked from the 2000s a. a. with Joëlle Léandre ( Live in Israel ), Hamid Drake , William Parker or Gerry Hemingway . In 2010 Beger and his electroacoustic band presented the production Peacemaker ; In 2014 the album The Way to Go followed under his own name , with Asaf Hakimi (bass) and Yoav Zohar (drums).

In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists twelve recording sessions between 1993 and 2011 in which he was involved.

Discographic notes

  • Albert Beger's 5 (Earsay, 2004), with Yoni Silver , Yiftach Kadan , Gabriel Meyer, Hagai Fershtman
  • Albert Beger / Ehran Elisha / Dave Phillips : Heads ( CIMP )
  • Hamid Drake, Albert Beger, William Parker: Evolving Silence Vol. 1 (Earsay, 2005)
  • Hamid Drake, Albert Beger, William Parker: Evolving Silence Vol. 2 (Earsay, 2006)
  • The New Albert Beger Quartet: Big Mother (Earsay, 2007), with Aviran Ben Naim , Gabriel Mayer, Yoav Zohar
  • Albert Beger, Gerry Hemingway :; There's Nothing Better to Do (OutNow Recordings, 2012)
  • The Way to Go (Jazzis Records, 2014)
  • Freedom Is an Option (Jazzis Records, 2016), with Milton Michaeli, Shay Hazan, Adam Cohen
  • Albert Beger & Shay Hazan: Black Mynah (Creative Sources, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 14, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Beger, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul