![]() ![]() ![]() He began studying classical piano at 10, but at 14 he heard a jazz jam session that made him decide to play his own music. Berger was born on March 30, 1935, in Heidelberg, Germany. There, internationally known musicians from jazz and other traditions worked with musicians at all levels of skill, from amateur to virtuoso. Berger and other artists performed and taught. The foundation ran the Creative Music Studio, in various locations in and near Woodstock, where Mr. ![]() Berger and his wife, the singer Ingrid Sertso, founded the Creative Music Foundation in the early 1970s, to focus on improvisation and musical cross-pollination. Berger was a pianist and vibraphonist who performed and recorded with leading jazz musicians including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Pharoah Sanders, Dave Brubeck and Lee Konitz, among many others. ![]() He was 88.īilly Martin, the studio’s executive director, said the death, at Albany Medical Center, was caused by complications following gastrointestinal surgery. Karl Berger, a musician, composer, educator and author who taught improvisation and his concept of an attentive, collaborative “music mind” to generations of musicians and artists at his Creative Music Studio near Woodstock, N.Y., died on April 9 in Albany, N.Y. ![]()
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