Bengt Berger (photo Anna Intemann)
Beche, 2012
20181021 Jayachandra Rao, Sopandev, Shreesundarkumar, Subhalakshmi Akkarai, Sornalatha Akkarai at Curious Classics in Uppsala, Sweden
Kjell Westling - Bengt Berger by Gunnar Smoliansky
Beche and Roland at Gerlesvik
Beche and Roland at Gerlesvik
Beche and Roland at Gerlesvik
Beche, kogyil
Beche, kogyil
Frankfurt -82
Bengt Berger, 2014 (Photo Viktor Gårdsäter)
Ustad and Taranath at Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden 1969
Ustad and Taranath at Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden 1969
Sridhar and Sopan Dev
w K. Sridhar and Don in Tågarp
Bombay 2016
In Chennai 2016
Berger Knutsson Spering 2015
Pandit Taranath with shishyas at departure for U.S. in 1967
A game of crocket in Sweden 1969
Teaching Bengt Berger of Sweden - 1964
Jonas Knutsson, Bengt Berger and Thomas Tidholm making plans
Berger Knutsson Spering (photo Thomas Gidén)
Berger Knutsson Spering (photo Thomas Gidén)
Berger Knutsson Spering (photo Thomas Gidén)
Berger Knutsson Spering + Niklas Rådström 2011
Beche, Adam Rudolph w Beches Brew BIG in Lund October 4, 2014 (photo Christer Männikus)
Beche, Jonas Knutsson, Thomas Gustafsson, Sir Thomas Jäderlund w Beches Brew BIG in Lund October 4, 2014 (photo Christer Männikus)
Spjärnsvallet 1975
Nikke and Beche, 1975
Bengt Berger & Adam Rudolph in Copenhagen june 2005. photo Torben Huss
Beches Brew - First Edition
Beches Brew with Shantala and her group
20161029 Beches Indian Brew Umeå
20161029 Beches Indian Brew Umeå
2012 Bucky Dome - The Organic Music Band med Eagle-Eye Cherry och Neneh Cherry
The Dome, 1971
Beches Indian Brew album arrival
Spjarnsvallet 2014 (photo Viktor Gårdsäter)

Bengt Berger

Posted 2013-08-12

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Drummer, composer, leader in the jazz & world genres. Long studies in India since 1965 and in Ghana during the seventies.  Some of the bands: Arbete & Fritid, Rena Rama, Don Cherry, Spjärnsvallet, Arkimedes,Bitter Funeral Beer Band, Enteli, Berger Knutsson Spering, Old School, Beches Brew.

Started Country & Eastern and is manager/artistic leader/errand boy. Plays on:

CE03 Berger Knutsson Spering & Friends: See You in a Minute – memories of Don Cherry.
CE04 Berger Knutsson Spering: Up Close
CE11 Bengt Berger & Kjell Westling: Live – Stockholm 1977
CE12 The Party Band: Country & Eastern Christmas
CE13: Bengt Berger: Beches Brew
CE18: Per Tjernberg: Music Is My Salvation
CE20: Bengt Berger-Roland Keijser-Kjell Westling: The Vedbod Tapes
GAFCD_1114: BeFive
CE27: Bengt Berger: Beches Brew BIG
CE31: Spjärnsvallet: Again and Again
CE34:Berger Knutsson Spering Schultz: Blue Blue
CE38: Beches Indian Brew
CE41: Bengt Berger / Beches Brew: Gothenburg

Digital-only albums:

CEX01 See You In A Minute –  The Extra Takes
CEX04 K. Sridhar: Raag Charukesi
CEX05 Up Close – Extra Takes
CEX12 K. Sridhar: Rare Ragas and Talas
CEX15: Bengt Berger-Roland Keijser-Kjell Westling: More Vedbod Tapes
CEX17: Bengt Berger: Beches Brew BAG
CEX23: Bengt Berger / Beches Brew: Gothenburg Live
CEX33 Viltvarning – Live at Fasching 2002
CEX35 Kummelholmen Sustain Session
CEX37 COOL FUNERAL BEER – DAY 1 – The Final Ancestor Shrine

Have recorded and produced all albums from India and Ghana.
Indian name: Sopan Dev, given by Swamy Haridhos in 1968

Here is a flattering essay on me and my work by Raul da Gama, if you care to read it, Bengt Berger: Percussion – Communion

and here one from Jazz Journal by Michael Tucker from October 2021, Bengt Berger: folk-jazz pioneer.


all records with Bengt Berger