Composer/Arranger/Conductor Karl Berger: A Zen Master Relishes the Here and Now, Jazz Times
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 eccentric visionary behind the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio, and now as mastermind and conductor of the Stone Workshop Orchestra, Berger has practiced and encouraged the art of opening oneself to the immediate, shrugging off preconceptions in order to hear the options inherent in the here and now.”
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