This All Star cast, promises to deliver an evening of extraordinary music - through their deep connection with one another and their involvement in the legendary Creative Music Studio workshops, where the spirit of music reaches for the sky!
Instant compositions will be performed, based on melodies by Karl Berger, Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. A studio recording of "Together" (to be released Fall 2017) will be available for everyone in the audience.
Award-winning composer/arranger/conductor,Karl Berger, wrote and recorded over 200 compositions and arrangements for classical ensembles, jazz groups, song-writers and performers, big bands, symphony and crossover projects. He has gained critical acclaim for his original scores for live orchestras and ensembles and for numerous recordings....
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This All Star cast, promises to deliver an evening of extraordinary music - through their deep connection with one another and their involvement in the legendary Creative Music Studio workshops, where the spirit of music reaches for the sky!
Instant compositions will be performed, based on melodies by Karl Berger, Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. A studio recording of "Together" (to be released Fall 2017) will be available for everyone in the audience.
Award-winning composer/arranger/conductor,Karl Berger, wrote and recorded over 200 compositions and arrangements for classical ensembles, jazz groups, song-writers and performers, big bands, symphony and crossover projects. He has gained critical acclaim for his original scores for live orchestras and ensembles and for numerous recordings.
Berger founded the legendary Creative Music Studio, which has maintained a year-round program and campus in Woodstock NY, attracting world-renowned composers and improvising artists from around the world. At CMS Berger developed his Music Mind approach, with the universal Gamala Taki Rhythmic Training at its center.
Through her work with such avant-jazz musicians as Don Cherry and Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso established herself as a captivating, adventurous vocalist, capable of blending jazz, African, South American, and other worldbeat influences into a distinctive, hypnotic sound. During the late '60s, she lived in Europe, Serts led her own trios and performed with Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Karl Berger, and Leo Wright. In 1972, as a permanent resident of the US, she released her first album, "We Are You".
Bassist, composer, improviser, Ken Filiano, has been performing around the world for thirty years, collaborating with leading artists in multiple genres, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his limitless imagination. Ken leads two quartets - Quantum Entanglements (with Michael Attias, Tony Malaby, and Michael TA Thompson), and Baudolino's Dilemma (with Vinny Golia, Warren Smith, and Michael TA Thompson). He is a co-leader of The Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo and of TranceFormation (Connie Crothers, Andrea Wolper)
Cornetist and composer, Kirk Knuffke, is the winner of Downbeat Magazine's "Rising Star" critics poll 2015. A recipient of the Jerome Foundation composers grant, Kirk has released 15 recordings as a leader or co-leader. One of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside, freedom and swing, he has "full command of his most demanding instrument” – All About Jazz. He has been called "One of New York City's busiest musicians".
After touring with Chuck Mangione, Billy Martin returned to NYC where he played with John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, a Downtown experimental jazz band, best known for their contributions to the "Get Shorty" soundtrack. He joined with John Medeski and Chris Wood in '91 to form Medeski Martin and Wood. Two decades later, the trio continues to record and perform, recently releasing "Juice" (September 2014) with the addition of guitarist John Scofield. Throughout his tenure with MMW, Martin has pursued outside projects, with both notable musicians and up-and-comers.
Kenny Wessel is a vital and personal voice in jazz, and has performed in 27 countries at major jazz festivals, concert halls and in radio and television appearances. Wessel worked with revolutionary jazz artist Ornette Coleman from 1988-2000, as a member of Coleman's Prime Time. Ken has appeared with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic and the London Philharmonia Orchestra. He can be heard on Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen’s album, "Morph the Cat" as a featured soloist.
Special Guest: Peter Apfelbaum's music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, the National Swedish Radio Orchestra of Stockholm, the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra, Harry Belafonte, Kamikaze Ground Crew and the Trey Anastasio Band. Apfelbaum's compositions have been recorded by numerous artists. Peter has also worked with Cecil Taylor, Charlie Hunter, the Chicago Children's Choir, the Jazz Mandolin Project and the Levon Helm and Jim Pepper.
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