Rik van den Bergh, Baritone Sax - "Brothers" ["Four Brothers"/Woody Herman Tribute] ("Reserge" 2007)

Rik van den Bergh, Baritone Sax, makes a special featured guest appearance on the Pepper Adams Jazz Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PepperAdamsJazz#p/u/12/rUk6ecSYarI

Solo starts at 1:52 minutes.

"....the Dutch Pepper Adams..."
-- Jaap Ludeke / ConcertZender, Down Beat, JazzFlits

RESERGE - a tribute to Serge Chaloff

In June 2007 Rik van den Bergh - together with The Reeds - recorded a new CD at Studio de Smederij in The Netherlands. The CD, titled "RESERGE," is a tribute to the great baritone sax player Serge Chaloff.

Serge Chaloff was a key player in the development of the baritone saxophone in jazz. He was inspired by the playing of Charlie Parker and one of the first beboppers on baritone. Both as a leader and a sideman, Chaloff made several interesting recordings for jazz labels like Savoy, Storyville and Capitol. Blue Serge on the latter label is generally thought to be his best record. He was also a member of the famous "Four Brothers" sax section of the Woody Herman Band (1947-1949). Serge died in 1957 ... so it's time for a tribute to this great but unfortunately underrated baritone saxophonist.

http://www.rikvandenbergh.com/

http://www.myspace.com/rikvandenbergh

http://www.rikvandenbergh.com/discography.html

http://www.rikvandenbergh.com/bands%26projects.html

Rik was 10 years old when he started playing clarinet. As a teenager growing up in Breda, The Netherlands, he had the opportunity to perform with Dan Barrett and Tom Baker.

1990 - 1994: After studying Medicine for two years he went to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague to study alto saxophone. He took lessons from John Ruocco, Frans Elsen, Jan Menu and Ack van Rooijen. Fellow students were Simon Rigter, Erik Kooger, Michael Varekamp, Raymond Nijenhuis and Peter Beets to name just a few. During this period he played in clubs and on jazz festivals in Holland, Scotland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Spain, England and Syria.

1995 - 1999: He was playing alto saxophone in 'The New Thundering Swingmates' with whom he recorded the CD 'Good Enough To Keep'. In 1997 Rik formed with Raymond Nijenhuis (guitar), René Rooimans (organ) and Erik Kooger (drums) a quartet: SWINGMATISM. With them he makes his first CD under his own name ('Swingmatism' - 1999) . Rik switched to baritone saxophone a year later and won the Japanese Kobe Jazz Award. He performed on the Kobe Jazz Festival and in Tokyo. His quartet swingmatism toured with saxophonist Teddy Edwards (Clifford Brown/Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon).

2000 - 2004: Rik performed on the Kobe Jazz Festival again - he played with Bill Berry (Duke Ellington, Mel Lewis/Thad Jones) - and made a tour through Japan. The second and last (live) recording of swingmatism is released in 2002 - "Live Update" - at A-records (a division of Challenge Records). In April 2002 they were playing with 'Sax' Gordon Beadle and in July the quartet performed on the famous North Sea Jazz Festival. He was asked to join Peter Ypma and his eleven and the Frits Landesbergen's Baileo Big Band (with Ruud Breuls, Simon Rigter and Ferdinand Povel, among others). Regularly Rik plays with the Young Sinatras. After seven years of joy Swingmatism splits up for musical reasons in 2004. Every now and then the musicians are still playing with each other in various combinations.

2005 - 2009: Rik played with the Young Sinatras Theater Tour 2005/2006 - this time with the upcoming vocalist Wouter Hamel. In Januari 2005 he joined the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra conducted by Johan Plomp. They recorded their first album Introducing Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra the same year. Their second CD "Suite to a T" was released in 2009. In 2007 Rik came up with a tribute to Serge Chaloff: with his new octet "The Reeds" he recorded the album "Reserge" for Maxanter Records. So far the CD has gotten great response from the press and audiences alike.

http://www.rikvandenbergh.com/reviews.html

"....great to hear how much nuance and feeling Van den Bergh can put into his baritone..."
-- Music Planet

".....it's cooking with a lovely dirty sound....."
-- Bert Jansma / Haagsche Courant

"....after a timid opening, Van den Bergh blew, with an unexpected fluidity, expressive and free into his baritone....."
Jacob Haagsma / Leeuwarder Courant

"...he was gliding through the theme with a clear sound and soloing beautiful...."
-- Hessel Fluitman / Friesch Dagblad

About SWINGMATISM'S cd 'LIVE UPDATE' :

"...these four guys were beloved because of their tour with tenor-legend Teddy Edwards. But they have enough to tell on their own: great!..."
-- Ton Ouwehand / Jazz Nu ****

".... it is almost impossible to feel uncomfortable with this album..."
-- Music Planet

"....this album will do it in the dance-scene as easy as in the world of jazz...."
-- Tubantia****

"Swingmatism swings in Hammondtradition"
-- Jacob Haagsma / Leeuwarder Courant

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