New Blood Revitalizes Creative Music Studio It hardly seems possible but Woodstock’s own Creative Music Studio, that ethereal prodigy of a golden era, has been sent to the gym and returned rippling with muscle. Like the town’s original experiment in freedom (known since 1905 simply as “The Maverick”) CMS remains, Read more…
Creative Music Studio Changes Hands at a Critical Moment in Jazz CMS Spring 2017 Workshop. photo by karin wolfe New York Times music critic Giovanni Russonello profiles CMS in a feature article, ‘Creative Music Studio Changes Hands at a Critical Moment in Jazz‘, which was published today. The article was Read more…
When German musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso established the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock in 1973, they were inspired by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, and encouraged by John Cage and Buckminster Fuller. Howard Mandel tells the story of a utopian educational outpost which has risen from the ashes Read more…
Woodstock, NY, March 16, 2016 – Music critics are enthusiastically praising the second three-CD set from the Creative Music Studio Archive Project. “Delicious,” “wide-ranging,” “fertile explorations, genuine adventures” and “outstanding” are just a few of the phrases that capture their impressions of this important new release. “Creative Music Studio Archive Read more…
JAZZIZ (November 2014 feature story) – PDF DOWNBEAT (December 2015) – PDF NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD (December 2014) – PDF WOODSTOCK TIMES (May 2014) JAZZ WEEKLY (July 2014) CHRONOGRAM (December 2014) POINT OF DEPARTURE BLOG FREE JAZZ BLOG (May 2014) CADENCE (Jan. 2015) – PDF Named “Best of 2014, Historical Read more…
Tyshawn Sorey, the drummer, was joined by the pianist Marilyn Crispell for a performance at the Stone. This was only the second time the two had played together. ruby washington/the new york times “The drummer Tyshawn Sorey and the pianist Marilyn Crispell played together as a duo only once before Tuesday night at Read more…
Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra Mr. Berger at ShapeShifter Lab on Thursday night. fortuna sung “Karl Berger, the jazz pianist, vibraphonist and conductor of improvisers, ran a workshop for his orchestra before its performance at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn on Thursday night. He uses a few simple hand signals for duration, attack and pitch, Read more…
“Karl Berger has been a pioneer in large-scale jazz improvisation longer than just about anybody, which explains why his Improvisers Orchestra swings as hard, and interestingly, and often hauntingly as they do…” Read more…
Composer/Arranger/Conductor Karl Berger: A Zen master relishes the here and now “…in a sense any project in which Berger takes the helm involves playing naked. As a disciple of Ornette Coleman’s harmolodics, as a sideman for Don Cherry’s early ventures into the fusion of jazz and world music, as the Read more…
The Downbeat interview, that never made it to Downbeat is on a wordpress blog.
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