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Borah Bergman / Conny Bauer

Borah Bergman / Conny Bauer - Conny Bauer - Posaune (trombone)
Borah Bergman / Conny Bauer - Borah Bergman - Piano

Gary Giddins for the Village Voice 'Choice' blurb (4/27/99) on a recent duo gig with drummer Rashid Ali at New York's Dharma club: '…pianist Borah Bergman, who attacks the keyboard like a hurricane with one hand while exploring its center with the other…'

Chris Kelsey for Jazziz: 'Name your criteria, no one's more intense, no one has more chops, no one possesses a greater abundance of ideas…'

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Jazz gives four of Bergman's CDs its highest review rating, along with these words: 'Record companies insist that no overdubs, multi-tracking or tape-speeding have been used on their records only when something rather special is going on inside. That is certainly the case with Borah Bergman, whose initial impact as a player can be likened--however lame a cliché this has become--only to that of Cecil Taylor…What he has done is to break down any residual distinction between left- and right-hand functions in piano playing…[his] 'Webs and Whirlpools' must be one of the most purely astonishing piano performances of all time.'