In 1959 Bergamo attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox, Massachusetts, near Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. Under a scholarship, he studied drums with Max Roach; had Percy Heath and Kenny Dorham as jazz band instructors; studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns, and George Russell; and was classmates with Ornette Coleman, and Don Cherry.
In 1959, Bergamo attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox, Massachusetts, near Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He received a scholarship to study drums under Max Roach, while also learning from Percy Heath and Kenny Dorham in jazz band.  He studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns, and George Russell, and was in class with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry.