{"product_id":"bergamo-totally-hip-sp-4v-p-cb","title":"Bergamo-Totally Hip (SP)-4V\/P\/CB","description":"This composition features vibraphones in many hip ways.  The beginning section is disjunct n nature and featured melodic concepts that are split through  all of the vibraphone players.  The middle section of the composition features a repetitive driving texture in tutti treatment from the whole ensemble. An open section is provided for solos over a provided chord change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Players: 6\u003cbr\u003eDifficulty: Grade 4\u003cbr\u003eInstrumentation:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player I: Vibraphone 1\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player II: Vibraphone 2\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player III: Vibraphone 3\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player IV: Vibraphone 4\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player V: Percussion (Gong or Large Cymbal, Bells, Drum)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e Player VI: Any Bass Instrument\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43804997189686,"sku":"OS 12","price":7.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/3055\/1350\/files\/bergamo-totally-hip-sp-4v-p-cb.jpg?v=1773457628","url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.mom\/products\/bergamo-totally-hip-sp-4v-p-cb","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}