Each night during the CMS 40th Anniversary Workshop, May 20-23, a different group of musicians will perform from 8-11pm. The concerts will take place at the Full Moon Resort, Big Indian, NY, about 30 minutes west of Woodstock, in the Cafe, and will feature workshop Guiding Artists such as Oliver Lake, Dave Douglas, John Medeski and many others. The concerts are open to the public.
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The Jazz Journalists Association named CMF co-founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as two of its 2013 ‘Jazz Heroes.’ Based on nominations from local communities and jazz journalists, Berger and Sertso were named for their ‘dedication to local efforts that nurture the spirit of jazz and ensure its transmission to new generations of jazz lovers.’
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John Medeski is joining with Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Dave Douglas, Oliver Lake, Steven Bernstein, Don Byron, Marilyn Crispell, Mark Helias, Tani Tabbal, Ken Wessel, Ken Filiano and Thomas Buckner as Guiding Artists for the Creative Music Studio’s 40th Anniversary Workshop. The four-day workshop offers musicians and listeners a chance to participate in a variety of intensive master classes, presentations, performances and jams.
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8 PM each Tuesday, April 9-29, at Photosensualis, 15 Rock City Road. This month only, Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso offer a series of 4 MUSIC MIND Workshops in Woodstock. The workshops are open to everyone who wants to get more out of listening to music; or wants to play with more ease and fluidity. At the core of the workshop is GaMaLa Taki, a method of rhythm training that does not require instruments or previous musical training. GaMaLa TaKi brings one into an intimate relationship with rhythm, transforming their experience of music. This shift in perception also helps to adjust and ground the many rhythms of everyday life.
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Ben Ratliff, begins his April 19 NY Times article on the KBIO: "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. “Hear your sound as if you’re playing the sound of the whole group,” he told them."
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The history of the Creative Music Studio, the Woodstock Utopia where Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso channelled Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz philosophies into radical musical education, by Howard Mandel
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El Taller-4/4, 5/2, 5/30---7:30 PM KBIO Open Rehearsal / 9:00 PM Performance, at 2710 Broadway (at 104th Street) NYC. The new season opens April 4th for Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra. The 25+ players’ ensemble of extraordinary professional improvisers explores original themes, melodies from the world’s folk traditions, compositions by Don Cherry or Ornette Coleman, as well as musical ideas that arise spontaneously in solo/duo/trio contributions by the players. Visit Karl Berger's “Blog”, where he goes into more detail about his Music Mind work with the Improvisers Orchestra.
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ShapeShifter Lab-4/18, 5/16, 6/13---7:00 PM KBIO Open Rehearsal / 8:30 Performance- ShapeShifter Lab is located at 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY. Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra has a rotating cast of soloists, with a solid core of regulars. The performance ensemble of of 20+ extraordinary professional improvisers continues to turn improvisational ideas developed in the 7:00 pm workshop/ open rehearsal into a fully formed 8:30 pm performance.
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Creative Music Foundation launches fund drive to support the Creative Music Studio 40th Anniversary. Never before has a need been so urgent: to offer musicians creative space to expand, experiment and deepen their connection to the transformative power of music. CMF has an array of exciting programs - workshops, fellowships, scholarships, reunions, benefit concerts and retreats -- all of which require funding for success. Please help. We cannot do it without your financial support. (SEE our Support page)
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The latest batch of tapes digitized for the CMS Archive Project uncovered gems from 1978 with the following CMS Guiding Artists: Karl Berger, Jimmy Giuffre, David Izenson, Ingrid Sertso, James Harvey, and the CMS Orchestra; CMS at Carnegie Recital Hall; Colin Walcott; Eugene Chadbourne & Andrea Centazzo; Famadou Don Moye; Garrett List A-1 Art Band; Julius Hemphill; Marion Brown; Michael Lytle & George Cartwright; Oliver Lake & Michael Gregory; Wadada Leo Smith; Marlyn Crispell; Steve Lacy, Jeanne Lee and the CMS Orchestra, and the New Years Intensive with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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