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| 1. | Cells
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| 2. | Triceratops
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| 3. | Iraq
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| 4. | Stone's Throw
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| 5. | English as a Second Language
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| 6. | Penultimatum
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| 7. | Only Human
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| 8. | Old Forks
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| 9. | Quilt
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| 10. | Mean Things Happening in This World
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Jazz
David Berkman - Liner Notes, Piano
Dick Oatts - Saxophone
Nasheet Waits - Drums
Ugonna Okegwo - Bass
* A.T. Michael MacDonald - Mastering
* Carmen Pujols - Photography
* Ingrid Butterer - Illustrations
* Jimmy Katz - Photography
* Matt Balitsaris - Engineer, Producer
Pianist and composer David Berkman plays and writes in a style that is quite personal and unique, though at times it harks back explicitly to such masters of pianistic impressionism as Bill Evans and early-period Keith Jarrett. Generally, this tendency works very much in his favor: on the aptly titled "Cells," for example, he starts out with disconnected, almost pointillistic snippets of melody and eventually weaves them together into a composition that is both sweetly attractive and quite harmonically complex; on the gorgeous "Quilt," Berkman and his quartet begin with a more straightforward melody and then deconstruct it. Occasionally, though, the ideas seem a bit too stretched out and diffuse, as on the overlong and slightly self-indulgent "Iraq." At moments like these, the album begins to sound like it was made more for other jazz musicians than for civilian listeners. Overall, though, Berkman's compositions are rich and warm and reward repeated listenings. Saxophonist Dick Oatts is a particularly effective foil for Berkman on these performances. Recommended.
--- Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
David Berkman
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
David Berkman is an inventive pianist and composer whose music is full of subtle surprises and adventure yet well grounded in the jazz tradition. His father was an amateur pianist and Berkman, after a short stint on the bass, also switched to piano. Although he gigged locally, he did not become serious about music until he attended college including a period at Berklee. After graduation, Berkman returned to Cleveland, often playing with drummer Greg Bandy and bassist Junie Booth and accompanying visiting all-stars. He moved to New York in 1985 and since then he has performed in many situations including with trumpeter Scott Wendholt, tenor-saxophonist Rich Perry, drummer Eliot Zigmund (with whom the pianist recorded a trio album), the Woody Herman Orchestra (touring in 1989), drummer Matt Wilson, Joe Lovano, Billy Hart and bassist Ray Drummond; he also arranged songs for singers Eden Atwood and Lisa Michel. Berkman's most important and extensive musical associations have been with bassist Cecil McBee (with whom he recorded Unspoken), the Vanguard Orchestra and Tom Harrell. In 1998 Harrell and altoist Steve Wilson were part of David Berkman's quintet album for Palmetto, Handmade. He released Communication Theory in 2000.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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