Shelly Berg Credit: Photo via shellyberg.music/Facebook
Chick Corea has been gone for almost two years at this point, so it’s much harder to take the jazz pianists we still have for granted. Shelly Berg—who once sat in for the Woody Herman Band—is the dean of the Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and a Steinway pianist.
Laurence Hobgood—a 2010 Grammy winner from New York— has maintained a long partnership with Chicago jazzman Kurt Elling, and while the latter won’t be present, we won’t be too shocked if he throws a few pieces he has done with Elling into his gig with Mr. Berg at the Side Door. Bassist Joe Porter and drummer Jean Bolduc back the pianists up.
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...
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