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Karl Berger

Born: March 30, 1935

Karl Berger is a six time winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll as a jazz soloist, recipient of numerous Composition Awards ( commissions by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, European Radio and Television: WDR, NDR, SWF, Radio France, Rai Italy. SWF-Prize 1994 ). Professor of Composition, Artist-in-Residence at universities, schools and festivals worldwide; PhD in Music Esthetics.

Karl Berger became noted for his innovative arrangements for recordings by Jeff Buckley ("Grace"), Natalie Merchant ("Ophelia"), Better Than Ezra, The Cardigans, Jonatha Brooke, Buckethead, Bootsie Collins, The Swans, Sly + Robbie, Angelique Kidjo a.o.; and for his collaborations with producers Bill Laswell, Alan Douglas ("Operazone"), Peter Collins, Andy Wallace, Craig Street, Alain Mallet, Malcolm Burn, Bob Marlett a.m.o. in Woodstock, NY. New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Paris, Rome.

The Call

By Henry Grimes

Label: Thingamajig
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fish Story; For Django; Walk On; Saturday Nite; What Th'; The Call; Son Of Alfalfa; Ia; Geno; Backdrop For Urban Revolution.

Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Giancarlo Mazzù, Luciano Troja: One Mind

by Neri Pollastri
August 31, 2026

"Quest'opera straordinaria è una raffinata miscela di poesia, preghiera, influenze orientali, canto e interazione musicale. Un viaggio, un canto, una ricerca spirituale. Un vero incontro tra Mente e Spirito. Più lo ascolti, più lo sentirai. Una vera opera d'arte." Così, nelle note di copertina, Rocco John Iacovone descrive quest'album che, registrato a New York nel 2019 ...

Carlos Nathaniel Ward: libertà, spiritualità e rigore

by Gaetano Fiore
April 28, 2026

“Arte e Jazz? Non facile e acritica gestualità ma concentrato di analitica ponderatezza". In occasione di un mio omaggio pittorico espositivo a Bill Dixon a San Vincenzo (LI) nel 2010, Libero Farnè scrive la suddetta frase che ben fa riflettere su quanto sia importante procedere con “lentezza" per tradurre i concetti di libertà, spiritualità ...

Carlos Malta and Cliff Korman: Saudade do Paulo

by Katchie Cartwright
April 23, 2026

Like many mid-20th-century jazz albums, Saudade do Paulo was recorded live in the studio (Biscoito Fino studios in Rio de Janeiro), without the sort of overdubs and retakes more typical of 21st-century projects. The release is digital-only, but what it lacks in physicality it makes up for in substantial liner notes and a sound that is ...

One Mind

By Karl Berger

Label: Silver Horn Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sky Gaze; In Search of the Center; Dancing Trees; White Clouds; Prayer Flags; Drops of Sound; Gate of the Night.

New Music From Irabagon, Atzmon, Farnsworth & More

by Bob Osborne
August 21, 2025

A varied selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from Ivo Perelman's six volume set The Art of Improv focuses on the importance of improvisation in jazz. Playlist Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak “Tiny Miracles (at a Funeral for a Friend)" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast Records) 00:00 Ivo Perelman, Karl Berger, Gerald Cleaver “Part 1" ...

New Music From Souter, Tampelleni & Tognola, Clarke & Zilber, And More

by Bob Osborne
July 24, 2025

A selection of new releases with some excellent vocal performances and a mix of conventional and experimental. In addition four more albums from the recent re-release of Ivo Perelman's Leo Records catalogue.Playlist Tessa Souter “A Song for You (Gnossienne No. 1)" from Shadows And Silence : The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) 00:00 Stefano ...

Karl Berger & Neil Alexander: B + A

By Neil Nail Alexander

Label: Pdog Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: One; Two; Three; Four

Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen: Forest

by Mike Jurkovic
November 4, 2024

In whatever stage, studio or musical environment these two supremely gifted improvisors find themselves, their talk is never anything other than bone-set honest. And as clarifying and compelling as so much of the duo's previous decades of recordings have been--preternatural recordings that include Anthony Braxton, Ahmad Jamal, Paul Simon, Cecil Taylor, Karl Berger and Joe Fonda--Forest, the ...