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| Ken Berman (2008) | |
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| Pianist Ken Berman has played stages from Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he was born, to Yoshi’s in San Francisco, where he now lives. He has been compared with both Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, and Le Monde of Paris (another city where he’s played) has called his style “fluid and erudite”.
Like Evans and Jarrett, he favors the piano trio, for which format he’s adept at composing as well as playing: almost half of his first recording and the entirety of his second consisted of originals, and expectations are that his third will, likewise. Educationally, he continues to be bi-coastal: he’s studied at Berklee School of Music in Boston, and in California has taught at Stanford and at UC Berkeley, where he’s on the music faculty. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Duke Ellington | Piano Reflections | Reflections in D | (Capitol) |
| # 2 | Miles Davis | Kind of Blue | Flamenco Sketches | (Columbia) |
| # 3 | John Coltrane | Giant Steps | Naima | (Atlantic) |
| # 4 | Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong | Ella and Louis Again | Let's Call the Whole Thing Off | (Verve) |
| # 5 | Miles Davis | The Complete Concert: 1964 (My Funny Valentine and "Four" & More) | Stella by Starlight | (Columbia) |
| # 6 | Miles Davis | Nefertiti | Pinocchio | (Columbia) |
| # 7 | Pat Metheny | Rejoicing | Lonely Woman | (ECM) |
| # 8 | Keith Jarrrett | Still Live | My Funny Valentine | (ECM) |
| # 9 | Bill Evans | Waltz for Debby | My Foolish Heart | (Riverside) |
| Book | Thich Nhat Hanh, "Present Moment, Wonderful Moment" | |||
| Luxury Item | A Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano | |||
| Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast | ||||
| Alt 1. | The Beatles | Abbey Road | (EMI) | |
| Alt 2. | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme | (Impulse) | |
| Alt 3. | John Coltrane | Crescent | (Impulse) | |
| Alt 4. | Chick Corea | Now He Sings, Now He Sobs | (Blue Note) | |
| Alt 5. | Miles Davis | Sketches of Spain | (Columbia) | |
| Alt 6. | Miles Davis | Miles Ahead | My Ship | (Columbia) |
| Alt 7. | Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks | (Columbia) | |
| Alt 8. | Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove | Directions in Music | (Verve) | |
| Alt 9. | Herbie Hancock | Maiden Voyage | (Blue Note) | |
| Alt 10. | Keith Jarrett | At the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings | (ECM) | |
| Alt 11. | Brad Mehldau | Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs | (Warner Bros) | |
| Alt 12. | Brad Mehldau | Day Is Done | (Nonesuch) | |
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29 Aug Laurie Antonioli 29 Feb Jeff Ballard 08 Aug David Belove 20 Jun Ken Berman 15 Aug Lee Bloom 14 Mar Maxwell Chandler 05 Dec Jeff Cressman 04 Jan Sylvia Cuenca 01 Aug | Terry Disley
02 May Taylor Eigsti 18 Jan Kathleen Grace 21 Nov Craig Handy 18 Apr Tootie Heath 25 Jul John Lee 17 Oct Seward McCain 24 Oct Myra Melford 04 Apr Brian Melvin 27 Jun | Debbie Poryes
19 Sep Ali Ryerson 08 Feb Antonio Sanchez 14 Nov Jaz Sawyer 10 Oct Wally Schnalle 11 Apr Dred Scott 21 Mar Scott Sorkin 08 Nov Dayna Stephens 18 Jul Al Young 26 Sep |