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Jazzin' up the town Teen to study bass guitar in Big Apple
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by Donna Eades Kansan staff writer
The trio of jazz musicians playing in the park outside the Eldridge Hotel took no notice of their car on Massachusetts Street.
If his life had gone according to a normal schedule, Natha Berg would have been a senior this fall at Lawrence High School. He might have been out there roaring around the summer streets.
Although occasionally obscured by the noise, the musicians were intent on their music, and the audience was intent on enjoying the warm midsummer evening's presence of Chuck Berg and Friends.
Acoustic bass player, 17-year old Nathan Berg, bent intently over his instrument and bit his lip in concentration, the wood stain on the neck of his bass worn away by years of practice.
Leader of the group, Chuck Berg. Nathan's father, smiled approvingly as his son improvised on a tune.
Berg, having completed two years of the North Texas State University jazz program, in Denton, Tex., will move to New York City next month to study at the Manhattan School of Music.
Instead he is getting ready to begin his third year of college as a jazz performance major, prepare for a career as a professional musician.
"Weighing both sides of the issue, I feel that I made the right decision to skip high school," Berg said. He went to directly to North Texas State after finishing the ninth grade.
His parents were not surprised when, at age 14, he began writing letters to universities known for their music programs about the possibility of early enrollment, his father said.
But when boy and son made a trip to Denton to hear a performance by bass player Eddie Gomez, Berg auditioned for faculty members. A few months later he moved to Texas and became the youngest full-time student ever accepted into the program.
"The response was overwhelm
ingly negative," Nathan Berg said. "They wrote back to tell me that I was on their 1991 mailing lists."
"Socially, I was a lot happier down there," he said. "If I was singled out it was flattering, or intended to be flattering. People seemed to accept me as much as anyone gets accepted in life."
A college freshman at 15. Berg made the dean's honor roll his first semester.
During his first year in Denton, he was accepted to play in the 1 O'Clock Lab Band, the most prestigious of nine student bands at the
"It is arguably one of the finest big bands in the world," said Al Berman, producer of the Thursday night jazz performances.
Home for the summer, Berg performs with his father and other musicians in the park next to the Eldridge Hotel, at Seventh and Massachusetts streets, from 6 to 8 p.m. The group will perform downstairs two more times, on July 20 and 27, before Berg leaves for New York.
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"If anyone has a chance to make it as a professional musician in New York, Nathan does." "Herman he." "He's professional quality now."
Musicians seem to run in the Berg family. His father, Chuck Berg, associate professor of theatre and film, has played professionally around the area for several years. He plays several reed gigs, and he has played g. Nathan's grandfather, played in big bands in Oregon.
Nathan Berg plays his bass.
As a young child, he went
to the jazz clubs in New York with his father, who was teaching at Queens College and reviewing jazz balances for Downbeat magazine.
"My memories of that time aren't too clear, but frequent exposure undoubtedly had a strong effect on me." Nathan Berg said,
Listening to the hundreds of jazz albums in his father's collection and accompanying his mother, who plays piano, and playing guitar in his father, also helped to direct his life toward professional music.
Charles Hoag, one of Nathan
"Nathan had an extremely supportive family environment," Hoag said. "His father got him started playing gigs, and Nathan just picked up the ball and carried on once he got started."
Berg's early classical bass teachers, said that his family environment had been a tremendous advantage to Berg.
"It makes it really special that we can share music as father and son, Nathan Berg said "Being naked of sorrow" frantically about aesthetic goals and tastes. And of course he's still Dad."
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