Thilo Berg (born 23 April 1959) is a German drummer who led a big band in the 1980s. He has produced more than 700 jazz, classical, R&B, and soul events.Jazzzeitung 2005/09

(accessed 2010-03-09) Besides his own productions, he worked on concerts, meetings, and social events. He founded Mons Records.

Career

Thilo Berg completed studies as a classical percussionist with Herrmann Gschwendtner and was a solo timpanist and percussionist in the '' Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra'' between 1981 and 2007. He also held the same position at the German ''Radio Philharmonic Orchestra'' until 2008. In addition to this, Berg worked in various bands. In 1986 he formed his big band and worked with guest soloists such as

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, Jiggs Whigham,

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, Silvia Droste, Jim Snidero,

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and Bill Ramsey. Together until 1993, the band included musicians such as Till Brönner,

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, Peter Weniger, Ludwig Nuss,

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, Gerald Presencer and Martin Shaw, as well as the pianist

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and Thilo Wagner. The work of the big band was documented on three albums. Berg also worked in smaller groups with musicians such as: Jack van Poll,

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, Heiner Franz, John Gordon, Elaine Delmare and

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. Thilo Berg founded the jazz and classical music label

Mons Records Mons Records is a German independent record label for jazz and classical music founded in 1991 by Thilo Berg in Trippstadt. The label has released music by among others Clark Terry, Jeff Hamilton, Bobby Shew, Tom Harrell, Ray Brown, Benn ...

Trippstadt Trippstadt is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country i ...

in 1991, and has worked as a music producer for

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BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations * Music publishing companies: ** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 *** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...

, Columbia and Universal. Mons Records released around fifteen albums a year.

References

Martin Kunzler Martin Kunzler (born 29 April 1947) is a German jazz bassist and music journalist. He gained particular fame through his ''rororo Jazz-Lexikon'' published by Rowohlt Verlag, which is now considered the standard German-language work on this music ...

, Jazz-Lexikon vol. 1. Reinbek 2002;

External links

Label website ''Mons''

Label portrait ''Mons''
1959 births Living people German drummers German male musicians Male drummers {{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Thilo