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Mili Bermejo, R.I.P.






Mili Bermejo, R.I.P.


From The Jazz Research Group
 
From: <jazz-research@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of "Bob Blumenthal rhblumenthal@comcast.net [jazz-research]" <jazz-research@yahoogroups.com>
Forward from Ann Braithwaite <ann@bkmusicpr.com>


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It is with great sorrow and a profound sense of loss that we announce the passing of Mili Bermejo on February 21 after a nine-month battle with cancer. She was 65.

A beloved fixture on the Boston music scene for more than three decades, Mili was a prolific vocalist, composer and educator. Her singular sound was defined by its unique combination of the emotionally resonant poetry and musical traditions of her Latin American heritage with the language of jazz, which she studied with such well-known masters as Jerry Bergonzi, Ran Blake, and Mick Goodrick.

Throughout her long career, she worked extensively as a bandleader and recording artist, joined by such frequent collaborators as Bruce Barth, Gary Chaffee, Eugene Friesen, Bertram Lehman, Vardan Ovsepian, Claudio Ragazzi, Tim Ray, Bert Seager, and George Schuller, among many others. Her final recording, Arte del Dúo (Ediciones Pentagrama), celebrates her 35-year musical partnership with her husband, bassist Dan Greenspan, and was included on Jon Garelick's best jazz releases of 2016 list in the Boston Globe.

During her 32 years as a Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Mili lovingly passed on her experiences as a third-generation musician, as well as the lessons of her mentors, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, to such next-generation talents as Chiara Civello, Laureen Kinhan (NY Voices), Alex Panayi, Sara Serpa, Luciana Souza, Esperanza Spaulding, and Tierney Sutton. Her long-awaited first book, Jazz Vocal Improvisation: An Instrumental Approach, will be published by Berklee Press this Spring.

More information is available on her web site at https://milibermejomusic.com

Donations in her memory may be made to the Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice Home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Downloadable photos available at https://www.milibermejomusic.com/media/

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Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan in Concert 2014

Bo
Posted by: Bob Blumenthal <rhblumenthal@comcast.net
 
 


Let us also recall that she was from one of the great Mexican musical families — her father and uncle were members of the Trio Calaveras, one of the defining Mexican ranchera trios — their performance of "La Malagena" in the film "Enamorada" was one of the most famous musical moments in the golden age of Mexican cinema, making the song famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Mili and her sister Margie grew up between Mexico and Argentina, as part of the Mexican musical aristocracy, and she continued to be a wonderful bolero singer, though better known for her jazz work.
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TRIO CALAVERAS "EL CRUCIFIJO DE PIEDRA" (1956)

 

 
 

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