East River Blues Chris Bergson

• 1 Mean Disposition 05:55
• 2 Little Girl Blue 06:20
• 3 East River Blues 05:23
• 4 Sad Strains 05:18
• 5 Kindless Villain 03:28
• 6 What Would I Do Without You 04:22
• 7 Driftin' 04:45
• Total Runtime 35:31

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Chris Bergson ist eine Wanderer zwischen den Stilen. Bestens beschlagen zeigt er sich als Gitarrist und Sänger sowohl im traditionellen, elektrischen Blues wie auch in diversen Jazz-Ausdrucksweisen. Überzeugend, da respekt- und gefühlvoll interpretiert, startet der New Yorker mit Muddy Waters’ «Mean Disposition». Ebenso pudelwohl zeigt er sich aber auch, wenn er gleich anschliessend «Little Girl Blue» des Songwriter-Duos Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart oder dann Herbie Hancock’s «Driftin’» anstimmt. Auch Soul ist ihm nicht fremd: Seelenvoll kommt Bergson in der Ray Charles-Nummer «What Would I Do Without You» rüber.

Zwei Eigenkompositionen von Chris Bergson, der unter anderem auch am Berklee College of Music in Boston unterrichtet, tendieren in Richtung ruhigem, leicht funkigem Jazz und sind herrliche Showcases für seinen virtuosen Griffbrett-Ausflüge, während das swingende, zusammen mit Kate Ross geschriebene «Kindless Villain» mit seinem von B.B. King inspirierten Gitarrenspiel wieder in die Blues-Ecke führt. Bergson’s Gesang ist emotional, doch nie überbordend, sein Gitarrenton warm und rund, seine Soli geschmackvoll und innovativ. Aufgenommen im Trio – bei drei Stücken zudem ergänzt durch Jay Collins’ Tenor Sax – gefällt der Sound als kristallklar und griffig.

Chris Bergson, Gesang, Gitarre
Larry Grenadier, Bass
Herlin Riley, Schlagzeug
Jay Collins, Saxophon (Tracks 3, 6, 7)

Aufgenommen, abgemischt und gemastert von Scott Petito im NRS Recording, Catskill, NY
Produziert von Chris Bergson & Scott Petito

Chris Bergson
is an internationally acclaimed American born guitarist, singer, and songwriter. “Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on – it’s B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield.” (ROLL Magazine) Hailed as “the New York street poet with a blues soul” (MOJO) and “one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music,” (All Music Guide) Bergson is best known as the leader of the Chris Bergson Band. Elmore Magazine calls the Chris Bergson Band “one of the most talented bands playing today,” whose soulful blend of American Roots music encompasses “blazing rock to funk to soul to Delta blues and all that’s in between.” Bergson is also an accomplished sideman who has performed with luminaries across a wide range of genres including including pop and rock (Norah Jones, Levon Helm), blues and soul (Hubert Sumlin, Bernard Purdie) and jazz (Annie Ross, Al Foster and Larry Grenadier.) The Chris Bergson Band’s 2007 album Fall Changes, recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, was named MOJO Magazine’s Number One Blues Album of the Year in 2008. Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015. Bergson is also an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he teaches guitar and songwriting. Chris Bergson plays D’Addario Strings, McCurdy Guitars and uses MONO cases.

On his latest record, Comforts of Home, (2 Shirts/CRS), Chris Bergson celebrates family, both biological and chosen. Bergson’s “chosen” family is the extended musical family he has been a part of for the last 20 years, the band MOJO Magazine has described as “gut-busting, horn bedecked NY blues.” Named one of Soul Bag magazine’s Best Albums of 2024 and garnering Four Stars in MOJO, Comforts of Home captures the Chris Bergson Band with Moses Patrou on keyboards/vocals, longtime bassist Matt Clohesy, groovemaster drummer Diego Voglino, and Jay Collins playing and arranging the horns. Recorded live at Brooklyn’s Grand Street Recording, most of Bergson’s vocals and blazing guitar were done in complete live takes.

“Bergson’s guitar work is a masterclass in subtlety and sophistication.” – Colin Campbell, Blues Matters (UK)

“The music sits right at the intersection of blues and soul…This is Bergson’s most well-crafted, fully realized album to date.” – Jim Hynes, Rock and Blues Muse

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