New Age/Contemporary Cool Jazz/Ambient/Pop Piano/Keyboard downtempo chillout Music featuring the music of New Age/Jazz/Pop artist Tracy Berg. A vast selection of New Age/Contemporary Cool Jazz/Pop styled ambient piano/keyboard instrumental downtempo chillout music that is often combined with accompanying instruments that is easy on the ear. A mellow blend of ice chilled New Age, Contemporary Cool Jazz, Pop. This music has a cool, mellow, soothing and ambient in quality to it, and often times is downtempo and relaxing in nature. The perfect chillout music! A very tasty treat!
Tracy Berg's instrumental music is a very colorful mellow blend of New Age, Contemporary Cool Jazz, Ambient and Pop music performed in different settings. From solo acoustic piano to keyboards/synthesizers/pianos with rhythm sections, and/or other accompaniments. One could also classify it as Easy Listening mood music. There is virtually something for everyone. While some of the harmonic vocabulary may seem a bit sophisticated at times, each song possesses great emotion, sensitivity and sincerity. Music that is true and honest! Just as the artist himself is.
Tracy Berg was born to German immigrants in Glendale, California on August 12, 1961. His formative years were also spent in Rochester, Michigan and Houston, Texas. His early music studies focused on classical piano and composition. He earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Houston, studying composition with David White and piano from Bill Chaisson. In one of those wild and wonderful, totally irrational life shifts after college graduation, Tracy became an airline flight attendant, spending the next eight years flying out of New York and Chicago. While living in New York, he began jazz studies at the New School, beginning a new musical evolution in his life. He married a fellow flight attendant and became a father to Jillian, the love of his life. The marriage ran into ...a slight chance of rain... Returning to Houston and to his destiny as a pianist and composer, Tracy studied at Houston Community College with jazz piano artists Joe LoCascio and Bob Henschen, Improvisation with Dennis Dotson, and compostion with Aubrey Tucker.
Pianist/Composer/Guitarist Tracy Berg was classically trained from 7 years of age through college. After graduation he moved to NYC then Chicago and studied Jazz Piano. Now residing in Houston, TX, Tracy is a full time keyboard/piano/guitar instructor, Iceberg Music Lessons of Houston and a Jazz/New Age/Pop pianist, who performs a wide variety of music both in solo and ensemble situations.