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Bob Bertles is an Australian jazz alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist and bandleader. Life and career. A self-taught musician, Bertles in the late 1950s and early 60s was a member of the developing modern jazz scene that grew out of venues like the Mocambo in Newtown and the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Sydney's Kings Cross. [1]
Album released in 1979. All original compositions.1. Valley Of The Tweed (6:57)2. Psychic Surgeon Of Baguio (7:32)3 . Le Tune (7:15)4. Solace (5:30)5. James ...
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Biography. A self taught musician, Bertles began his performing career in 1956. In the late 1950s and early 60s Bertles was a member of the developing modern jazz scene that grew out of venues like the Mocambo in Newtown and the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Sydney's Kings Cross.
7 de fev. de 2015 · Bob Bertles Moontrane - Valley Of The Tweed. Bill Stevens. 476 subscribers. Subscribed. 0. 142 views 8 years ago. Album released in 1979. Song composed by Paul McNamara. Bob Bertles: Tenor...
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Born in 1939 in Newcastle, Bertles took up clarinet aged nine, teaching himself for the first seven years. The impetus was infatuation with his parents’ Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw records. ‘I used to brainwash myself with them,’ he says. ‘From as early as I can remember – probably three or four – I wanted to play the clarinet.’ Discovering Charli...
Bob left O’Keefe in 1963, moved to Melbourne and wrote his first compositions. During the ’60s he forsook the McLean influence for a freer approach. ‘I went through a period after hearing Eric Dolphy of really starting to go out there,’ he says. ‘Then I heard people like Phil Woods again, and he brought me back to the standards, and I found it very...
He and Hayes enjoyed annual New York sojourns, and in 1984 he connected with a childhood hero, Lee Konitz, who was to be a guest teacher at the Conservatorium the following year. Bertles gave two of his LPs to the great saxophonist, beginning an enduring friendship and mutual admiration society. ‘I’d go up to his place and we’d play saxophones at e...
the first band to play at the el rocco in the 60's included legendary altoist BOB BERTLES; KEITH STIRLING, tpt; DAVE LEVY pno; JOHN POCHEE dms; ED GASTON bas...
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15 de mar. de 2021 · Jazz musician Bob Bertles's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.
