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About Me

Since moving to New York in 1985, David Berkman has been an important part of the jazz community. He is an award-winning composer/bandleader (2000 Doris Duke/Chamber Music America New Works Creation and Presentation Grant), a recording artist whose 4 Palmetto recordings have appeared on numerous best records of the year critic's lists (the New York Times, the Village Voice, Downbeat, JazzIz, Jazz Times and others) and an award-winning jazz clinician who has performed and taught at numerous jazz camps, universities and conservatories around the United States, South America and Europe. He has played in countless bands including those of Cecil McBee, Tom Harrell and the Vanguard Orchestra and has performed with and/or recorded and/or arranged for numerous jazz luminaries, including: Sonny Stitt,, Brian Blade, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Ray Drummond, Billy Hart, Dick Oatts, Tony Malaby, Chris Potter, Scott Wendholt, Lenny White, Scott Colley, Craig Handy, Steven Bernstein, Bill Stewart, Dave Stryker, Fathead Newman, Hank Crawford, and Jane Monheit. Now appearing more and more often as a bandleader, David Berkman has performed solo and with his quartet, quintet and sextet at festivals and clubs in the United States, Europe and Japan, most recently at the North Sea Festival, the Edinburgh festival, the Belfast festival and the Cork Festival. Recent tours include: clubs and concert performances in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sao Paulo, Japan and around the United States. Recent projects include piano/trumpet duo performances with Dave Douglas (2005 International Trumpet Guild Convention in Bangkok) and Tom Harrell (around Italy).NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing available from Sher Music Publishing Co. http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5158/goodbookcoverey3.jpg

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Member Since: 1/15/2007
Band Website: davidberkman.com
Band Members: Current quartet is David Berkman piano and compositions, Jimmy Greene-saxes, Ed Howard-bass and Ted Poor-drums.
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Record Label: Palmetto Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HD R.I.P.

After the last month of not having my own computer, my computer issues finally came to an end yesterday when the data recovery specialists failed and declared my hard drive unreadable. So, it's back t...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:30:00 PST

Transitions

I am back in Tokyo now. I want to talk a little bit about something that I think a lot of musicians struggle with. This is one of the most difficult things for me, and it marks a big difference betwee...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:20:00 PST

Sayonara, Korea

One last gig at All that Jazz brought out a lot of my new Korean friends, from Mijung, the woman who works at Cafe Liens where I get my coffee every morning and who made my day by checking with a...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:09:00 PST

Its a small small world...

My Korean adventure is almost over. I have a recording session tomorrow and then one more day of teaching with a gig at night at "All That Jazz", the first club I sat in at way back when on June 24th,...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:44:00 PST

Evans

Another day, another club, another drummer. Last night we played at Evans, a club in the same area as a few of the others, near the University for attractive women, although it probably isn't called t...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:29:00 PST

EBS Space

Last night we did our TV show on EBS Space. This is a great thing for Korean jazz musicians--it's a TV show that appears once or twice a week on the public TV channel and they have a fairly steady die...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:46:00 PST

Sleep Deprivation

Today I went to sleep at 6 and woke up at 10. Traveling sleep patterns are a strange thing for me--every time I go to a different time zone, I have a different experience. Last year when I w...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:58:00 PST

Seoul by night

I've settled into a pattern. Usually, I come back to my guest house room fairly late, although last night was an exception. Still, no matter when I come back, I listen to music, watch T...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:16:00 PST

Everyday Seoul

I am sitting in the guest house that is my new temporary home. I'm out of the love hotel neighborhood and living in a shi shi section of the city that caters to foreigners. It's fi...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:45:00 PST

Seoul Station

I just got back from a club called, "All that Jazz" and after all the difficulties that came with getting here and the last couple of days of inactivity, it was very gratifying to go out and hear some...
Posted by David Berkman Quartet on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:21:00 PST