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 Jazz Album” in Cadence Magazine by Michael G. Nastos “What an absolute treat this one is. … [A] treasure trove. … Izenzon’s solos are very Read more…
Another Ear-Bending Experience September 29, 2014 With autumn colors blazing the hills that cradle Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY, the CMS Fall 2014 Workshop began auspiciously. As usual, CMS co-founder Karl Berger opened the session, explaining the origins of CMS and talking about the need for creative space is greater than ever. “Who would have thought my Improvisers Orchestra would play more than a few times? Last week we played our 75th concert 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 the Stone. It was a couple of months ago, during a Creative Music Studio Workshop in the Catskills, and it lasted about 20 minutes. The Read more…
Ears Split, Hearts Open, Minds Blown The Creative Music Studio’s Spring 2014 workshop took place between June 9 – 13 at the Full Moon Resort, nestled streamside in a valley 30 minutes west of Woodstock, NY. Twenty-two participants, from Berlin to Warsaw, Tokyo to Los Angeles, interacted day and night with a dozen CMS Guiding Artists, including Henry Threadgill, Joe Lovano, Tyshawn Sorey, Marilyn Crispell, Peter Apfelbaum, Warren Smith, Judi Silvano, and of course Creative Read more…
4 Days of Intensive Workshops and Intimate Concerts The Creative Music Studio’s second 40th anniversary workshop took place between October 7 – 11, 2013 at Full Moon Resort, nestled streamside in a valley 30 minutes west of Woodstock, NY. Twenty participants interacted day and night with 14 Guiding Artists, including Vijay Iyer, Peter Apfelbaum, Steve Gorn, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Tom Buckner, Mark Helias, Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wessel, Harvey Sorgen, Omar Tamez, John Menegon and Read more…
Creative Music Studio’s 40th Anniversary Workshop Recap: Four-day Intensive Features Workshops and Unique Concert Engaging workshops and groundbreaking concerts in a breathtakingly beautiful natural environment. And, the food was great! The Creative Music Studio’s first 40th anniversary workshop took place between May 20 -24, 2013, at Full Moon Resort, nestled streamside in a valley 30 minutes west of Woodstock, NY. Twenty five participants interacted day and night with 15 guiding artists, including Marilyn Crispell, Don 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, and the musicians wanted to be sure they were interpreting the specifics correctly. But Mr. Berger seemed more concerned with telling them something very general.” 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 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 Read more…
The Downbeat interview, that never made it to Downbeat is on a wordpress blog.
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