Albert Beger
Israeli flutist and saxophonist in free-jazz and avant-garde.
Albert Beger is an Israeli saxophonist, flutist, composer, and academy lecturer. He works in post-bop, hard-bop, free-jazz, and avant-garde music.
Quick Facts
- Born
- 1959
- Birthplace
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Origin
- Dor, Israel
- Genre
- Jazz
- Free-Jazz
- Avant-Garde
- Occupation
- Saxophonist, Lecturer
- Instrument
- Tenor saxophone
- Alto saxophone
- Flute
- Label
- NMC Records
- Earsay's Jazz
- Anova Music
- Associated acts
- Lester Young
- Albert Ayler
- Pharoah Sanders
- John Coltrane
- Cecil Taylor
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Biography
Albert Beger was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1959 and moved to Israel with his parents at age three. Growing up in the new state, he experienced a blend of Eastern-European, Western-European, and Arabic culture. As a youth he listened to 1960s pop and rock, then became absorbed in early-1970s progressive rock. After the army, he studied classical flute with Uri Teplitz and took up the tenor saxophone around age 25–26, feeling the flute could not produce the energy he wanted. His debut album, The Primitive, appeared in 1995, followed by This Life in 1997 on NMC records with distribution from Columbia Records. Art Of The Moment came in 2000, featuring Menachem Zibziner, Gabi Meir, and Amir David. In 2003 he signed with Earsay's Jazz, releasing Hevel Havalim that year with a trio including Gabriel Meyer and Hagai Fershtman, and Listening in 2004 with a quintet adding Yoni Silver and Yiftach Kadan. He received the Landau Award for Performing Arts in 2005. That year at a Tel Aviv jazz festival, he performed with Hamid Drake and William Parker.
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