The 12 1/2 % Solution

Tim Berne

Just Jazz presents Tim Berne, with Gordon Grdina and Gregg Belisle-Chi!

Since learning at the elbow of St. Louis master Julius Hemphill in the ’70s, the Syracuse, New York-born **Tim Berne** has built an expansive discography as a leader. In his pace-setting ensembles over the past few decades, he has worked with a who’s who of improvisers, including Joey Baron, Django Bates, Jim Black, Nels Cline. Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Ethan Iverson, Dave King, Herb Robertson, Chris Speed, Steve Swell, Bobby Previte, Hank Roberts, Tom Rainey and Craig Taborn. As a sideman, Berne has made ECM appearances on recent albums by Formanek (The Rub and Spare Change; Small Places) and David Torn (prezens). The New York Times summed him up by saying: “Few musicians working in or around jazz over the last 30 years have developed an idiomatic signature more distinctive than Tim Berne.”

**Gordon Grdina** is a Juno award winning oud player and guitarist with a unique sound combining free/improv, mainstream jazz and Arabic music. A protégé of jazz great Gary Peacock, he is a well-respected contributor to the jazz and world music scenes constantly being sought out for projects that need a fresh sound.

**Gregg Belisle-Chi** is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York. Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, Eyvind Kang, Ben Goldberg, Wayne Horvitz, and many more in the jazz, improvised, rock, and chamber music worlds.



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