Requited

Requited

Bert Seager - Piano | Rebecca Shrimpton - Voice | Rick DiMuzio - Tenor/Saxaphone | Jorge Roeder - Bass | Richie Barshay - Drums | Dan Greenspan - Bass | Jorge Pérez-Albela - Drums

REQUITED is the debut of a new collaboration between composer Bert Seager and novelist Anita Diamant with ten songs that celebrate the persistence of love and hope.

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Beat Greens

Beat Greens

2007 Invisible Music Records # IM2038
Bert Seager - Piano | Jorge Roeder - Bass | Richie Barshay - Drums

"The CD features musicians that Seager been playing with regularly for the past two years, Jorge Roeder on bass and Richie Barshay on drums. Impelled by the rhythmic imagination of these two players, who are half his age, the trio music has a new sense of drama, color possibilities and power."

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A Closer Look

A Closer Look

2006 Invisible Music Records #IM2036
Bert Seager - Piano | John Lockwood - Bass | Kazumi Ikenaga - Drums

"The quality of the listening is what draws one into the space of the music on this recording. This music, though based in the traditions of jazzpiano trio, has a breathing conversant quality where interaction rather than role-playing is emphasized."

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Openings

2004 Invisible Music Records #IM2033
Bert Seager - Piano | John Lockwood - Bass | Kazumi Ikenaga - Drums

"Seager and his musical partners bring a graceful ballad program to their audience, while subtly filling each piece with effervescent optimism." Cadence Magazine

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Pioneer

2002 Invisible Music Records #IM2026
Bert Seager - Piano | Masa Kamaguchi - Bass | Také Toriyama - Drums

"Seager has distilled his lyrical approach into perfectly balanced and unfailingly beautiful music full of quiet subtleties." Boston Phoenix

 

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Freedom of Assembly

1999 Buzz Records #ZZ76009
Bert Seager - Piano | George Donchev - Bass | Nat Mugavero - Drums

"Together, they venture with depth and sensitivity into the realm of unmediated impulse and sound." Boston Globe

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Resonance

1997 Accurate Records #AC-5021
Bert Seager - piano | Dan Greenspan - bass | Dan Rieser - drums

"The Bert Seager Trio has created light and airy music on this recording, but by no means is it lightweight - these guys play forcefully with some tasty dissonant touches." JazzTimes

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Second Spring

1993 Dental Records #1003
Bert Seager - piano | Dan Greenspan - bass | Joe Hunt - drums

"Seager's writing incorporates quirky structures without forfeiting melodic elegance and swing." Boston Phoenix

     
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Live At The Yardbird Suite

1990 Bellaphon #CDLR 45023
Bert Seager - piano | Billy Drewes - tenor saxophone
Tim Hagans - trumpet | Dan Greenspan - bass | Ian Froman - drums

"This kind of exuberance makes the jazz world go round" Boston Globe

     
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Because They Can

1988 Antilles # 422 848 823 2
Bert Seager - piano | George Garzone - tenor saxophone
Tim Hagans - trumpet | Dan Greenspan - bass | Joe Hunt - drums

"Best of all, every track has a present-tense passion and commitment to it - reminding one that music that takes account of the jazz past need not be placed within quotation marks." Chicago Tribune

     
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Time To Burn

1987 Antilles #422 848 824 2
Bert Seager - piano | Jimmy Mosher - alto saxophone
Tim Hagans - trumpet | Dan Greenspan - bass | Joe Hunt - drums

"The group balances fresh immediacy and a whiff of nostalgia" New York Times