Nearly Blue

Check out Bergonzi’s latest recording for Savant Records entitled “Nearly Blue”.  Revisiting the swinging sound of organ trio, Jerry Bergonzi (tenor), Renato Chicco (organ) and Andrea Michelutti (drums) play standards from the great American songbook along with a couple of original compositions.

Tunes: It Might as well Be Spring, countdown, How About You?, Tectonic Plates, Nearly Blue, On Green Dolphin Street, We’ll Be Together Again, While You Were Out, Nice Work if You can get It, Laura, and bonus track Higgsboson

 

Nearly Blue Reviews

 
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The Sunday Times

“A gifted composer, he tackles standards only sporadically, yet it’s always a treat to hear him do so for he transforms these overfamiliar pieces in strange and compelling ways.”

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Staccatofy

“Bergonzi’s Nearly Blue is ten tracks of tenor saxophone heaven. Bergonzi is a significant influence on many of today’s jazz players, and here he shows off his command of medium-tempo songs with a stunning modern straight-ahead vocabulary.”

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Jazz Blues News

“A fount of harmonic ingenuity, melodic integrity, and rhythmic authority, Jerry Bergonzi has long been a standard-bearer of sorts for the jazz community. A prolific composer prone to taking deep dives that put serious theory into profound practice, his discography is filled with smart and imaginative originals that twist and turn in unexpected fashion.”

 

Jerry Bergonzi Organ Trio - Nearly Blue

Recorded live at ArteSuono Studio, Udine, Italy

 
 

Discography

  • Con Brio (1983)

  • Featuring Bruce Gertz (1985)

  • Uranian Undertow (1986)

  • Caught in the Act (Not Fat, 1988)

  • On Red (1988)

  • Lineage (1989)

  • Inside Out (1989)

  • Etc Plus One (1991)

  • Standard Gonz (Blue Note, 1991)

  • Tilt (1991)

  • Peek a Boo (Evidence, 1993)

  • Vertical Reality (Musidisc, 1995)

  • Just Within (Double Time, 1997)

  • Together for the First Time (1998)

  • On Again (Ram, 1998)

  • Fast Company (Blue Jackel, 1998)

  • Lost in the Shuffle (Double-Time, 1998)

  • Wiggy (Double-Time, 2000)

  • A Different Look (Double-Time, 2001)

  • Live Gonzi (Double-Time, 2002)

  • Intuition (SteepleChase, 2004)

  • Live Gonzi II (Double-Time, 2005)

  • Tenor of the Times (Savant, 2006)

  • Tenorist (Savant, 2007)

  • Tenor Talk (Savant, 2008)

  • Saxology (SteepleChase, 2009)

  • Simply Put (Savant, 2009)

  • Three Point Shot (Double Moon/Intuition, 2010)

  • Three for All (Savant, 2010)

  • Convergence (Savant, 2011)

  • 4+1 with Jerry Bergonzi (Effendi, 2011)

  • Sonic Shapes (Stunt, 2011)

  • Shifting Gears (Savant, 2012)

  • Tetragonz (Stunt, 2013)

  • By Any Other Name

  • Sonora No. 2 Meet Jerry Bergonzi

  • Intersecting Lines (Savant, 2014)

  • Quintonic (Stunt, 2014)

  • Rigamaroll (Savant, 2015)

  • Spotlight on Standards (Savant, 2016)

  • Inner Journey

  • Dog Star (Savant, 2017)[5]

  • Seven Rays (Savant 2019)

Recording With Others

With Dave Brubeck

With Joey Calderazzo

  • 1991 In the Door

  • 1991 To Know One

With Miles Donahue

  • 1995 Good Listener

  • 2003 Standards Vol. 1

  • 2003 Standards Vol. 2

  • 2006 In the Pocket

With Daniel Humair

  • 1991 Edges

  • 1993 Open Architecture

With Hal Galper

  • 1993 Just Us

  • 1995 Rebop

  • 1999 Let's Call This That

  • 2018 Cubist

With Bruce Gertz

  • 1992 Third Eye

  • 1995 Blueprint

  • 1996 Discovery Zone

  • 1998 Shut Wide Open

  • 1999 Red Handed

With George Gruntz

  • 1992 Blues 'n Dues Et Cetera

  • 1996 Sins 'n Wins 'n Funs

With Bob Kaufman

  • 2001 The Line Between

  • 2003 Dreaming Out Loud

With Eartha Kitt

  • 1991 Thinking Jazz

  • 1995 Standards: Live

With Andy LaVerne

  • 1994 Spirit of '76

  • 2001 True Colors

With Nando Michelin

  • 1996 Facing South

  • 1997 Common Grounds

  • 1999 Art

  • 2000 Chants

  • 2006 When Einstein Dreams

With Alex Riel

  • 1994 Emergence

  • 1998 Unriel

  • 2000 Rielatin '

  • 2002 The Riel Deal

With Dave Santoro

  • 1999 Dave Santoro Standards

  • 2000 Standards Band II

  • 2001 The New Standard

With Brooke Sofferman

  • 1999 Modesty's Odyssey

  • 2002 The Green Between

  • 2004 One Stone Two Birds

  • 2007 Fine Whines

With Richard Sussman

  • 1978 Free Fall

  • 2003 Live at Sweet Rhythm

  • 2012 Continuum

With others