Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Music Is Love: The Manhattan Sessions

  MUSIC IS LOVE: THE MANHATTAN SESSIONS is the second record date that Sangeeta did for Bruce Calabrese’s Beat City record label as a follow up to Divine Song. It was originally titled Inside The Outside but was never released. The session represents a meeting of the minds between Sangeeta and guitarist Joe Diorio who Sangeeta played with in Chicago in 1963 where he was featured on Diorio’s Saturday morning club jam session with players that included Scotty Holt, Gerald Donovan, Gene (Clarence) Shaw, Eddie Harris, and Jack DeJohnette.

  In 1980 Sangeeta was making the transition from his eight year stay in San Francisco to the East Coast and was shuttling between the New Paltz / Woodstock area and NYC. Sangeeta has maintained the East / West bicoastal connection to this day. He is currently living in California making drawings, writing poems, collaborating on music projects with Sunjump Records and inspiring everyone around him.

– John Esposito 2018

  Thanks to Cobi Narita for her generous support of my work and for a lifetime of making Jazz available to the public and making Jazz musicians’ lives better. Her contributions beyond the Universal Jazz Coalition are too vast to list here but you should find out about her.

  Thanks to Joe St. George, truly a saint to many musicians. He’s been there helping make the music happen for many years. He put body and soul into the sessions for all my cds, especially Divine Song and Music Is Love, driving Archie Shepp all over Manhattan to get his horn fixed as the Divine Song studio clock ticked away the dollars.

  Thanks to Lou Curri, a true paisan. We met at Linda Mar Rehab when he was there visiting an old friend. We chatted a moment and he remembered hearing me at the Keystone Corner forty years ago. He’s been a regular visitor and good friend ever since.

Blessings and thanks to to all supporters who gave so generously directly and through Go Fund Me to make this project possible.

  Finally thanks to Laura Steele for her patience and dedication to making the cover art so good and to my long time friend and comrade in arms John Esposito.

– Sangeeta