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“I’m essentially a bebop player, and beyond. My heroes are anyone from Bud Powell to McCoy Tyner to Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock.” – Bernie Senensky
Three-time Juno nominee, twice voted “Best Acoustic Piani/wp-admin/post.php?post=7539&action=editst” in the Jazz Report awards and winner of a SOCAN award for “Best Jazz Composition”, Bernie Senensky has earned the reputation of being one of Canada’s premier Jazz artists, with 13 recordings under his own name. His playing has been featured internationally in many concerts & festivals. We are delighted with his return to the Jazz Room!
Bernie began occupying the piano chair in The Moe Koffman Quintet in 1979 when the band was the number one small jazz combo in Canada. The list of artists that he has performed with reads like a “who’s who” of jazz, including: Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Joe Williams, Rashied Ali, Eric Alexander, Phil Woods, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ravi Coltrane, Blue Mitchell, Pharoh Sanders, Dave Liebman, Art Blakey, James Moody, Mark Murphy, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones (who called Bernie “one of the finest pianists I have ever played with in my career”), Art Farmer, George Coleman, Joe Farnsworth, Buddy DeFranco (who called Bernie “the best of the best”), Clark Terry, Sonny Stitt, Red Rodney, Barney Kessel, Art Pepper, Terry Gibbs, Chris Potter, Pepper Adams & Zoot Sims
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