7090025832642

Baritone

Harald Bergersen

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Format: CD

Cat No: LOS2642

Release Date:  01 April 2022

Label:  Losen Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7090025832642

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    Several known and not so known standards from one of the best-known veterans of the Norwegian jazz scene, saxophonist Harald Bergersen, aged 84 and still going strong. A disciple of fellow saxophonist Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Lars Gullin, Harald Bergersen is featured here on baritone saxophone in a quartet of younger musicians keen to perform with their legendary compatriot.

    Among the great standards featured are "Chelsea Bridge" by Billy Strayhorn, "A Ballad" by Gerry Mulligan, "Summer Serenade" by Benny Carter, "Blues in the Closet" by Oscar Pettiford, "Undecided" by Charlie Shavers and "Freight Trane" by Tommy Flanagan.

    Harald Bergersen: baritone saxophone
    BÃ¥rd Helgerud: guitar
    Fredrik Eide Nilsen: double bass
    Torstein Ellingsen: drums & percussion

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Freight Trane
      • 2. Meus Melhores Momentos
      • 3. Merlin
      • 4. Waltz for You
      • 5. Undecided
      • 6. Chelsea Bridge
      • 7. Three and One
      • 8. Summer Serenade
      • 9. Blues in the Closet
      • 10. Another Time, Another Place
      • 11. A Ballad
      • 12. Observing