Bergamo-Like Be-Bop(SP)-M/V/P/-CB

Like Be-Bop combines rock and jazz into one hybrid genre. The drum set part has a jazz style in the right side of the body while the left side is emulating a rock style. The keyboard parts vary from split line to ensemble figures.

Number of Players: 4
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:

Player I: Xylophone, Marimba

Player II: Vibraphone, Marimba

Player III: Drum Set

Player IV: Electric bass

From his early days as a drummer in New Jersey, John Bergamo has never lost his desire to expand his interest in percussion. In 1959 John attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox Mass. next door to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. Under a scholarship, John studied drumset with Max Roach; had Percy Heath and Kenny Dorham as jazz band instructors; studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns and George Russell; and was classmates with Ornette Coleman, and Don Cherry. In 1962 John earned an M.M. degree from Manhattan School of Music, followed by three summers in Tanglewood and time in New York City as a freelance musician.