TRIBUTE TO KARL BERGER Maverick Saturday Nights

Reserved Hall Seats: $50/35, $30/27 (partial obstruction) General Admission/Outdoors/Uncovered: $20, Students: $10 BUY TICKETScreativemusic.org/karl-berger-music-mind The Creative Legacy Ensemble: A Tribute to Karl Berger Musicians: Ingrid Sertso-Berger; Peter Apfelbaum, Steven Bernstein, Brittany Anjou, Ken Filiano, Tani Tabbal, Marilyn Crispell Few of his generation have shaped free improvisation and world music as profoundly as Karl Berger. A trained musicologist, he emerged from the dim, post-war jazz scene in the South of Germany, where stationed U.S. soldiers fueled the music underground—until renowned American jazz musicians began forming their own bands there. But Berger wanted more. Leaving behind a teaching assistant job with leading German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, meeting his mentor Don Cherry in Paris–the journey doesn’t stop there. Alongside his wife, Munich-born singer Ingrid Sertso, he follows Cherry and the great Ornette Coleman to Woodstock in the early 70s. There, they build something legendary: the Creative Music Studio—a groundbreaking hub for free music and improvisation. Musicians from across the globe gravitate to Woodstock and CMS: Carla Bley, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Anthony Braxton, and percussion masters like Nana Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu, and Ayib Dieng. Decades later, their teachings and spirit live on through workshops and performances.