Also known as Totti Role Singer Origin Norway Genres Jazz | Occupation(s) Musician, composer Associated acts Kjell Karlsen Name Totti Bergh | |
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Birth name Theodor Christian Frolich Bergh Born 23 April 1930
Oslo ( 1930-04-23 ) Instruments Tenor saxophone, clarinet Died January 4, 2012, Oslo, Norway Albums Remember, I Hear A Rhapsody, Warm Valley Similar People Laila Dalseth, Rowland Greenberg, Ole Jacob Hansen, Bjarne Nerem, Per Borthen | ||
Theodor Christian Frølich Bergh known as Totti Bergh (born 5 December 1935 in Oslo – deceased 4 January 2012 in Oslo) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), the younger brother of the jazz journalist Johannes (Johs.) Bergh (1932–2001), married to jazz singer Laila Dalseth, and known as the bandleader and publisher of several jazz records.
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Career
Bergh started to play clarinet, and picked up the saxophone in 1952. In 1956 he entered the ranks of professional musicians. He was a regular member of Kjell Karlsen Sextet for three years, in addition to collaborating sporadically with Rowland Greenberg and other parts of the Norwegian jazz elite as it once provisioned live dance music of good brand. He also made trips on the Norwegian America Ships with the ships' house orchestra on the voyage to New York. Bergh had mustered the America boat in 1960 and succeeded Harald Bergersen as tenor saxophonist in the Kjell Karlsen new elite big band. In the summer of 1961 the big band's new singer was Laila Dalseth, his wife to be. He also was in the lineup for the bands of Einar Schanke (1955–56), Rowland Greenberg (1960–64, 1974–81), and Per Borthen (1966–). In addition, he played in his wife Laila Dalseth's orchestra. Later he played tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone with 'Christiania Jazzband' (from 1990) and with 'Christiania 12' (from 1992).
He has released several albums, and his music is reminiscent of the world-renowned tenorists Lester Young and Dexter Gordon.