Karl Berger

German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer

Karl Hans Berger (March 30, 1935 – April 9, 2023) was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator. He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life. 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.

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • 7inC
  • Bank Job
  • Beyond the Moon
  • Chimney Road
  • Clarity
  • Contemplation
  • Crystal Fire Suite: Crystal Vision / Drinking Fire / Primordial Innocense / Breathing Earth / Cutting Through
  • Dakar Dance
  • Drums First
  • Fly
  • Fragments
  • From Now On
  • Get Up
  • Getting There
  • Go With It
  • Going Out
  • I Don't Want to Be Alone
  • Interlude 10: Left and Right
  • Interlude 1: Tuning/Timing
  • Interlude 2: Remember Tomorrow
  • Interlude 3: Identical Expression
  • Interlude 4: Perfect Love
  • Interlude 5: In Motion
  • Interlude 6: Just in Time
  • Interlude 7: 7 in C in 6
  • Interlude 8: My Gratitude
  • Interlude 9 : D'accord
  • Isn't It Time
  • Let's Rock
  • Malkauns
  • Movies
  • Never the Same
  • No One Will Be Here Over There
  • North on 87
  • Now Is, D'Accord, All Kinds of Time, We Are
  • Ornette
  • Out There Alone
  • Pedal
  • Pensiveness
  • Perfect Love
  • Placidity
  • Pursuance
  • Reverie
  • Simplicity
  • Sneakhead ()
  • Taunts
  • Terrace and Trees
  • The Beginning
  • The Shadowy Path
  • The Well of Memory
  • This Is What We're Thinking
  • Transcendence
  • Transit
  • Travel East
  • Tune In
  • Turns
  • We Change
  • Why Not?
  • With Silence
  • You Asked