A top-notch teacher and the past president of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Shelly Berg was accepted at the Cleveland Institute of Music at the tender age of six, and began his professional career at 13. This CD captures his powerful hard bop piano playing on 10 songs: Blackbird • Blame It on the Sun • For Mo • Hot It Up • Julia • Killing Me Softly • Midnight at the Oasis • Peg • She's Always a Woman • Your Smiling Face.