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Karl Berger (Karl Hans Berger) was born on 30 March, 1935 in Heidelberg, Gau Baden, Germany, is a German-American jazz pianist (1935–2023). Discover Karl Berger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Karl Hans Berger
Occupation Jazz pianist · vibraphonist · composer · conductor · academic teacher
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 30 March, 1935
Birthday 30 March
Birthplace Heidelberg, Gau Baden, Germany
Date of death 9 April, 2023
Died Place Albany, New York, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1935

Karl Hans Berger (March 30, 1935 – April 9, 2023) was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator.

Berger was born on March 30, 1935, in Heidelberg.

He started playing classical piano when he was ten and worked in his early twenties at a club in his hometown.

He learned modern jazz from visiting American musicians, such as Don Ellis and Leo Wright.

1960

He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life.

During the 1960s, he started playing vibraphone.

1963

He studied musicology and sociology at the Free University of Berlin, achieving a doctoral degree in 1963 with a dissertation on music in Sowjet ideology.

He worked as a member of Don Cherry's band in Paris.

When the band went to New York City to record Symphony for Improvisers, he recorded his debut album as a leader.

Berger worked with drummers Ed Blackwell and Jack DeJohnette, bassist Dave Holland, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman, Lee Konitz and Ivo Perelman.

He worked further with Michael Bisio, Anthony Braxton and Baba Olatunji, as well as with Carla Bley, Bill Laswell John McLaughlin and Roswell Rudd, and with the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, As musical arranger and conductor, he contributed to albums by Better Than Ezra, Buckethead, Jeff Buckley, Angélique Kidjo, Natalie Merchant and Rich Robinson, among others.

1972

He founded the educational Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, in 1972 with his wife and Ornette Coleman, to encourage international students to pursue their own ideas about music.

With Coleman and Ingrid Sertso, Berger's wife, he founded the Creative Music Studio (CMS) in Woodstock, New York, in 1972, to encourage students to pursue their own ideas about music.

Berger considered Coleman his friend and mentor, and like Coleman he was drawn to avant-garde jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation.

The focus of CMS was "teaching improvising musicians to develop their own aesthetics, and to draw and mesh ideas from across genres, traditions, and international borders".

Among the teachers were John Cage, Steve Lacy, George Russell and Richard Teitelbaum.

1984

They closed the facility in 1984, but held masterclasses internationally, called World Jazz.

1994

Berger also taught at the New School, and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1994 to 2003.

2004

Berger and Sertso founded Sertso Recording Studio in Woodstock in 2004.

2005

He then led the department of music of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to 2005.

2013

He and his wife revived CMS in 2013, and retired in 2017.

He remained active in music for the rest of his life, releasing his final album in the fall of 2022.

Berger died at a hospital in Albany, New York, on April 9, 2023, at age 88, from complications after surgery.

Berger's recordings include:

With Don Cherry

With others