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Live at Sips Cafe

"Live at Sips Cafe is a gorgeous collection of standards and truly one of the prettier and more enlightening jazz albums I have heard this year."
Reviewer Paul Barbatono

Track Listing

1. Bernie's Tune
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Birds and the Bees
4. What'll I Do
5. I Hear a Rhapsody
6. Bossa Rocka
7. You and the Night and the Music
8. Choros No. 1
9. Rhythm-A-Ning
10. Shiny Stockings
11. Segment
12. A Nightgale Sang in Berkley Square
13. Blues Walk

Musicians: Tim Berens, guitar. Dan Faehnle, guitar. Mike Sharfe, Bass.

From the Liner Notes:
When Tim Berens wrote that he’d be opening up that Great American Songbook to anchor a live (!) set of dual jazz guitar sessions— with Dan Faehnle no less — it was just the sort of project that promised. But it also promised that awkward task of introducing music that requires no introduction whatsoever played by two musicians requiring little more than that themselves. I needn’t have worried of course. Not only does the musical partnership that’s developed between Berens and Faehnle over their many sessions trump any weedy attempt I might make to describe it... (read more)

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Nortonomy

"Nortonomy reveals Berens an apt pupil of modern composition, one unafraid to fuse the old with the new....He is a meticulous composer, one who wraps structure around improvisation, combining classical music and jazz."
Impact Weekly

Track Listing

1. Tomba Romba
2. Nortonomy
3. Diminished Returns
4. Dr. Now
5. Pavane
6. Grandma's Waltz
7. Statisculatin'
8. Dot Deeyoh
9. BB
10: 11:11 Blues

Musicians: Tim Berens, guitars. Frank Proto, bass. Rusty Burge, vibes. Marc Wolfley, drums/percussion. Steve Barnes, drums/percussion. Al Wittig, sax. Stacey Wooley, violin.
From the Liner Notes: Guitarist Tim Berens sets his music squarely on that apocryphal divide between the idioms of jazz and classical music. After all, throughout the history of jazz, many artists -- think Ellington or Gil Evans -- have provided their bands with meticulous charts, while Beethoven or Liszt were legendary for their impromptu cadenzas. So one of the real pleasures of this album is that its interplay of spontaneity with careful composition... (read more)
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Another Rhumba for Armando

Delivering rhumbas is a lot like playing Bach -- you need to somehow combine musicality and inflexion with extreme precision to bring it off, and Berens' finger work is
just wonderful to listen to.
Tony van Seventer

Track Listing
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1. Another Rhumba for Armando
2. Spain
3. Caravan
4. I Remember You
5. Bagatelle #3
6. Summertime
7. Lullaby of Birdland
8. A Child is Born
9. 'Round Midnight

Musicians: Tim Berens, guitars. Eric Sayer, bass. Marc Wolfley, drums. Doug Morgan, sax.
From a review: This morning's mail brought a welcome treat - Tim Berens' new "Another Rhumba for Armando," and I rushed to my CD player to try it on. Those familiar with Berens know him for his classical performances with major symphony orchestras and his recordings with the Cincinnati Pops, but with "Armando," Tim shows another side - one that confirms that his years of formal classical training hasn't hurt his playing a whit. (read more)
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