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A woldpremier: For the first time you can hear Brazilian music with violin as lead instrument played in this unique way. Rudi Berger who has worked with Toninho Horta and Yuri Popoff for many years has developed a special relation with the Music of Minas Gerais and adds new colours to this unique brazilian music style.
Recommended if you like: Joe Zawinul, Toninho Horta, Eddie Harris, Chet Baker, Ray Charles
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Album Info available in: deutsch english |
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Recognized for his unparalleled jazz violin approach and rare talent as a songwriter
Rudi Berger has regularly toured as a bandleader and guest artist throughout Europe,
South America, Japan and the USA since 1990.
His formations have been represented at festivals alongside the groups of Brian Auger,
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Les Mc Cann, Herbie Hancock, Michel Petrucciani, Marcus Roberts,
John Scofield, Cedar Walton the Tokyo Strings Quartett or Gidon Kremer just to name a few.
Before moving to New York in 1986 he released his debut album “First Step”, was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra and made his first international appearance as a bandleader at “Jazz in Athens”.
In his New York time he performed and recorded with Artt Frank, Billy Kilson, Cyro Baptista, Joe Calderazzo, Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt, Mike Clark and Victor Bailey among others and worked with Astor Piazzolla at the American Music Theater Festival in 1989.
Rudi has performed with legendary guitar composer Toninho Horta for almost two decades and has become Brazil’s most recorded violinist in recent years.
Since 2001 the Viennese Jazz violinist & contemporary songwriter has lived in Brazil. |
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