Jay Berliner

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Jay Berliner
Brooklyn, New York, US
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Guitarist
Instrument(s)Acoustic guitar
Years active1960s—present

Jay Berliner (born May 24, 1940) is an American guitarist who has worked with Harry Belafonte, Ron Carter, Charles Mingus, and Van Morrison, among others.

Career

Berliner had his first television experience at age seven with his sister Eve on The Children's Hour on NBC. He was the guitarist for

The White House, and at the Metropolitan Opera with Barbara Cook, Audra McDonald, Josh Groban, and Elaine Stritch
, which was recorded live for DRG Records. His solo albums include Bananas Are Not Created Equal, Romantic Guitars, Erotic Guitars, three classical albums for Nippon-Columbia, and three classical albums for Spanish Music Center Records. He can be heard on Romantic Sea of Tranquility under the pseudonym "Chris Valentino."

Berliner began playing as a studio musician in the early 1960s. Since then he has made more than 13,000 recording sessions for records, commercials and films. He has played on albums by Charles Mingus (including The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady) and Ron Carter, George Benson's White Rabbit, Stephane Grappeli's Uptown Dance, Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Milt Jackson's Sunflower. He recorded with singers Andrea Bocelli, Debby Boone, Kristin Chenoweth, Perry Como, Harry Connick Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., Blossom Dearie, Sergio Franchi, Astrud Gilberto, Rupert Holmes, Bernadette Peters, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Vale, Frankie Valli, and Russell Watson.[1]

He played on Van Morrison's 1968 album Astral Weeks. In November 2008 he joined Morrison to play Astral Weeks in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. A vinyl LP and CD from these concerts entitled Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl were released in February 2009.[2]

Berliner is an original member of

Ambassador Theatre
.

Awards

Berliner has won seven

NARAS
Most Valuable Player awards as well as the NARAS MVP Virtuoso Award in 1986.

Discography

As leader

  • Bananas Are Not Created Equal (Mainstream, 1972)
  • The Guitar Session with Gene Bertoncini (Philips, 1977)
  • Erotic Guitars (Jonella, 1984)
  • Romantic Guitars (Special Music Company, 1987)

As sideman

With Harry Belafonte

With Ron Carter

With Cynthia Crane

  • Smoky Bar Songs for the No Smoking Section (Lookoutjazz, 1994)
  • Blue Rendezvous (Lookoutjazz, 1995)
  • Cynthia's in Love (Lookoutjazz, 1997)

With Blossom Dearie

  • My New Celebrity Is You (Daffodil, 1976)
  • Positively (Daffodil, 1983)
  • Songs of Chelsea (Daffodil, 1987)
  • Christmas Spice So Very Nice (Daffodil, 1991)
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Daffodil, 1991)

With Nellie McKay

  • Get Away from Me (Columbia, 2004)
  • Pretty Little Head (Hungry Mouse, 2006)
  • Normal as Blueberry Pie (Verve, 2009)

With Charles Mingus

With Van Morrison

With others

References

  1. ^ "Jay Berliner | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl". vanmorrison.com. Retrieved 2008-10-02.

External links

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