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Sangeeta Michael Berardi

Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Guitarist/Composer [email protected] (510) 528-7417 1960-1963: Connecticut: Gigs with own band in clubs, at Providence College, Univ. of Conn. Appearances with pianist Count Steadwell. 1963: Chicago: Gigs with organist Baby Face Willette and organist Bobby Buster Featured with guitarist Joe Diorio's Saturday morning jam session w/ Scotty Holt, bass; Gerald Donovan, drums, Gene (Clarence) Shaw, Eddie Harris, Jack DeJohnette, and others. 1964: Connecticut: Club gigs, also bass lessons with jazz and avant-garde classical virtuoso Bert Turetzky. 1965-1968: Manhattan: performances in lofts and other venues with saxophonist Frank Smith, Steve Tintweiss , clarinetist Perry Robinson, trumpeter Dewey Johnson , alto saxophonist Noah Howard, trumpeter Johnnie Salgado, bassist David Izenson, drummer Muhammad Ali, and others/duo gig with bassist Scotty Holt at Louie's Tavern in Greenwich Village/CT gigs with bassist Mario Pavone and saxophonist Mark Whitecage. Studies with pianist Ronnie Ball. 1968-1969: Woodstock, NY/New Paltz, NY/Manhattan: Concerts as leader with bands featuring Mark Whitecage, sax; Mario Pavone, bass; Richard Youngstein , bass; Perry Robinson, clarinet; Earl Cross, trumpet; Juma Santos, bass/ percussion; Steve Tintweiss, bass; Ollie Anderson, flute/bassoon/percussion; David Shaw (aka Dahoud Shaar) and others at St. Gregory's Church, Father Francis' Church-on-the-Mountain, the Academy Theater, Bennett College and other venues. Also co-leading band with altoist Sonny Simmons featuring trumpeter Barbara Donald, drummer Paul Smith, bassist Juma Santos, trumpeter Earl Cross, and Ollie Anderson, flute/bassoon/percussion. Gigs with this band at Marist College, and at the Annual Sound Out Folk Festival which for the first time included Jazz (and Rock)groups. Appeared with pianist Burton Greene's group at Sound Out Festival. Appeared with altoist Noah Howard's group in concert in Woodstock. Co-leading group with drummer Sunny Murray featuring Dave Burrell, piano; Juma Santos, bass/percussion; Ollie Anderson, bassoon/flute/percussion; the late Rev. Frank Wright, saxophone; the late Earl Cross, trumpet; Jack Cross, trumpet. Performance at the Woodstock Town Hall. Spring to Fall of 1968: Music Director at Group 212, a multimedia arts cooperative located near Woodstock, NY, that included a theater group, painters, a rock and roll power trio and dancers in both the folk and modern traditions. The previous director had brought avant-garde classical performers such as John Cage, Nam June Paik, and others to the area. Sangeeta brought jazz, especially cutting edge "free jazz", to Woodstock, nearby towns and schools. He organized two Openhouse/Festivals on Group 212 land. Sixty musicians from New York City, Boston, Connecticut and the upstate New York area came to the first one and participated in spontaneous performances and workshops including Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, Sunny Murray, Noah Howard, Mark Whitecage, Mario Pavone, and others.

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Sangeeta Michael Berardi: The Mr. P Sessions

Read "Sangeeta Michael Berardi: The Mr. P Sessions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


In October of 1996, guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi went into Nevessa Studio in Woodstock, New York, and laid down the tracks for what would become two monumental recordings, Earthship (Sunjump Records, 2008) and Calling Coltrane (Sunjump Records, 2011). This is stunning music from a man who played with Alice Coltrane, Roswell Rudd, Rashied Ali, Archie Shepp--a resume that correctly suggests a free approach to music. Call the seventeen tunes from that session the new Testament of John Coltrane, circa 1965 ...

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Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Earthship

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There's a lot of talent vying for our ears in jazz, which translates to many top rate artists falling into the underappreciated category. Guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi (b. Sept. 2, 1939, in Waterbury, Conn.) is one of those singular musicians who hasn't gotten his due. Berardi, who was primarily based in Woodstock, N.Y. during his most productive years, has worked with Archie Shepp, Joe Diorio, Sonny Simmons, Perry Robinson and Roswell Rudd--something of a who's who in the ...

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Sunjump Records Announces New CD Release By Sangeeta Michael Berardi

Sunjump Records Announces New CD Release By Sangeeta Michael Berardi

Source: John Esposito

SUNJUMP RECORDS ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE FOR 2012 Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Calling Coltrane Sangeeta Michael Berardi, Guitar James Finn, Tenor Sax, Flute John Esposito, Piano Hilliard Greene, Bass Peter O'Brien, Drums The second part of the 1996 Studio session that yielded Sangeeta Michael Berardi's Earthship reveals more of this under-recorded, highly original guitarist. Recorded at Nevessa Studio, Woostock, NY by Ted Orr and remastered by Scott Petito at NRS Studio, Catskill, ...

Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Earthship “Sangeeta Michael Berardi....crafted his own vision of that Far Eastern spiritual sound into dreamlike soundscapes that are truly phenomenal......weaves a nice thread between mood setting groove and electric firestorm.......needs to be recognized as completely different take that is rich, inventive and stellar in its execution. It's pulsating, passionate and modern while all wrapped in a divine layer spirituality.....A real treasure. - Vern JazzWrap “Berardi's guitar is a soaring, swooping, melodious jet turbine of an instrument, owing as much perhaps to Jimi Hendrix as to any jazz guitarist

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Divine Song

Sunjump Records
2020

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Music Is Love: The...

Sunjump Records
2018

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Sangeeta Michael...

Sunjump Records
2014

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Calling Coltrane

Sunjump Records
2011

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Earthship

Sunjump Records
2008

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