Karl Berger – Music Mind

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, WE NEED VIBES! 'writes the avant-garde legend Don Cherry in the mid-sixties Heidelberg pianists and vibraphone player Karl Berger. This follows the Rufwaden bandleaders and moves with his wife and child to New York. The best decision! Like hardly any other of his generation, the musicologist and musicologist Karl Berger has shaped free improvisation and, above all, world music. Cave 54 obtained the music simulation from the stationed US soldiers until more and more well-known US musicians get their bands. He gives his assistant job to Theodor W. Adorno and flees the dreary post-war Germany to meet in Paris on his sponsor Don Cherry. He follows him along with his wife, the Munich singer Ingrid Sertso and her great Ornette Coleman in the early 70s in Woodstock a center for free music and improvisation, the Creative Music Studio. Many musicians from the local music scene in Woodstock join in: Carla Bley, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Anthony Braxton, but also from all over the world. the percussionists Nana Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu or Ayib Dieng. Until today they give their knowledge in workshops. Karl Berger - Music Mind will mark his journey from Heidelberg to Woodstock and his jubilee concert at this year's Jazz Days in Stuttgart. A film by Julian Benedikt and Axel Kroell, 55 minutes, stereo

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