Larry Berkovitz - Piano / Vocal
With little formal training, Larry’s playing style can best be described as “unorthodox”. Equipped with a very early Farfisa organ, he survived the underground rock years of the late sixties/early seventies as one half of “TWO” – playing support to the likes of URIAH HEEP, OSIBISA, and even SLADE (what a racket!).
He doesn’t remember very much.
Back in the UK from the mid-eighties, and some years older and returning to his original passion of Jazz, Larry became a popular performer on the local Essex and London Jazz scene, leading his own band E-MAIL SPECIAL for some 12 years until 2011, amassing a strong following and enchanting concert audiences at home (Chelmsford) and in Southend, Bury St Edmunds, London’s VORTEX Jazz Bar, Knightsbridge’s much-lamented prestigious PIZZA ON THE PARK, etc. In recent years, however, Larry has concentrated on the arranging and developing of much of the Spring, Summer and Xmas Jazz repertoires and on performing these in concert (co-presented with Zak Barrett) to much acclaim.
But with much of his time now spent abroad, public appearances in the UK are now more of a rarity.