Bengt Berger (born 31 August 1942) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

jazz musician (drummer), composer and producer.Bengt Berger - Beches Brew
review in All About Jazz (2009) Berger has studied north and south Indian music since the 1960s with Pandit Taranath Rama Rao and Mridangam Vidwan P.S. Devarajan and plays the

tabla A ''tabla'' is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, it has been the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, where it may be played solo, as an accompaniment with other instruments a ...

and

mridangam The ''mridangam'' is an ancient percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is the primary rhythmic accompaniment in a Carnatic music ensemble. In Dhrupad, a modified version, the pakhawaj, is the primary percussion in ...

Discography

* ''Spelar'' (1978) * '' Bitter Funeral Beer'' (ECM, 1981) * ''Praise Drumming'' (Dragon, 1987) * ''Tarang'' (Rub-a-Dub, 1995) * ''All Time High'' (Amigo, 1999) * ''Live in Frankfurt 82'' (Country & Eastern, 2007) * ''Beches Brew'' (Country & Eastern, 2009) * ''Blues for E.D'' (Gazell, 2012) * ''The Vedbod Tapes'' (Country & Eastern, 2012) * ''Beches Brew Big'' (Country & Eastern, 2013) * ''Blue Blue '' With Knutsson, Spering, Schultz (2015) * ''Gothenburg'' (Country & Eastern, 2018)

As sideman

* Lennart Aberg, ''Green Prints'' (Caprice, 1986) *

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, '' Organic Music Society'' (Carpice, 1973) * Don Cherry, '' Eternal Now'' (Sonet, 1974) *

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, ''Almanacka'' (Silence, 1983) *

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (14 March 1929 – 28 September 1990), (Popularly known as Z. M. Dagar), was a North Indian (Hindustani music, Hindustani) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagarvani, Dagar family dhrupad musicians. He ...

& Pandit Taranath, ''Live In Stockholm 1969'' (Country & Eastern, 2015) *

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, ''

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'' (Polydor, 1998) *

Mecki Mark Men Mecki Mark Men (MMM for short) were a Swedish rock band fronted by keyboardist Claes "Mecki" Bodemark. The group originally formed as a ''dansband'' in the mid-1960s, then called Mecki Mark Five, before adopting elements of psychedelic rock, jaz ...

, ''Mecki Mark Men'' (Universal, 2008) *

Mynta Mynta is an Indo- Swedish fusion jazz band which uses Indian vocal, African and Latin-American rhythms, Arabic sounds, Swedish Folkmusic and Cuban violin, together with Indian traditional instruments as tabla, kanjira, ghatam and tampura. It con ...

, ''Short Conversation'' (Fat & Tapes, 1985) * Rena Rama, ''Jazz I Sverige 73'' (Caprice, 1973) *

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, ''Notes from Underground'' (Harvest, 1974)

References

External links

* http://www.beche.se/ Bengt Berger's site * http://www.countryandeastern.se/ Country & Eastern site * http://www.myspace.com/bengtberger Bengt Berger's MySpace * https://www.youtube.com/bengtberger Bengt Bergers YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Berger, Bengt 1942 births Living people Swedish male musicians Musicians from Stockholm ECM Records artists Swedish jazz drummers Rena Rama members