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Karl Hans Berger (1935 – 2023) was a German jazz pianist, composer, and educator.

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Life and career

Berger played piano in Germany when he was ten and worked in his teens at a club in his birthtown of Heidelberg. He learned modern jazz from visiting American musicians, such as Don Ellis and Leo Wright. During the 1960s, he started playing vibraphone and received a doctoral degree in musicology. 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.

With Ornette Coleman and Ingrid Sertso, he founded the Creative Music Studio 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.

Berger worked with Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Gunther Schuller, Clifford Thornton, the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, and the Globe Unity Orchestra. He collaborated with Bill Laswell as musical arranger and conductor, thus contributing to albums by Jeff Buckley, Better Than Ezra, Buckethead, Natalie Merchant, Sly & Robbie, Angélique Kidjo, Hōzan Yamamoto, and Shin Terai.

Berger died in New York on 9 April 2023, at the age of 88.

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Discography

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As leader

  • From Now On (ESP Disk, 1967)
  • Tune In (Milestone, 1969)
  • We Are You (Calig, 1972)
  • With Silence (Enja, 1972)
  • All Kinds of Time (Sackville, 1976)
  • Interludes (FMP, 1977)
  • Changing the Time (Horo, 1977)
  • Just Play (1976) (Quark, 1979)
  • New Moon (Palcoscenico, 1980)
  • Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival (MPS, 1980)
  • Transit (Black Saint, 1987)
  • Karl Berger + Paul Shigihara (L+R/Bellaphon, 1991)
  • Around (Black Saint, 1991)
  • Sudpool Jazz Project II: Moon Dance (L+R/Bellaphon, 1992)
  • Crystal Fire (Enja, 1992)
  • Conversations (In+Out, 1994)
  • No Man Is an Island (Douglas Music, 1997)
  • Stillpoint (Double Moon, 2002)
  • Strangely Familiar (Tzadik, 2010)
  • Synchronicity (Nacht, 2012)
  • After the Storm (FMR, 2013)
  • Gently Unfamiliar (Tzadik, 2014)
  • Moon (NoBusiness, 2015)
  • Live at the Classical Joint (Condition West, 2017)
  • In a Moment (Tzadik, 2018)
  • Conjure (True Sound, 2019)
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As sideman

With Don Cherry

With Bill Laswell

With Ivo Perelman

  • Reverie (Leo, 2014)
  • The Art of the Improv Trio Vol. 1 (Leo, 2016)
  • The Hitchhiker (Leo, 2016)

With others

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Linking in in 2023

A Camp (album), About Time (New York Gong album), Adelhard Roidinger, Aïyb Dieng, Alan Bern, Alan Silva, Album (Public Image Ltd album), Allan Chase, Allen Blairman, American Songs, Berger, Bill Elgart, Black Saint/Soul Note, Blown Bone, Boops (Here to Go), Broken Politics, Bruce Ditmas, Bustin' Out (EP), Carl Berger, Carlos Ward, Circle Records (Germany), Clifford Thornton, Close-Up Vol. 2, People & Places, Creative Music Studio, Creative Orchestra Music 1976, Daevid Allen, Dave Holland, David Sulzer, Deaths in 2023, Ed Blackwell, Ed Schuller, Emanem Records, Enja Records, Enrico Rava, Epitaph (Charles Mingus composition), Eric Dolphy, Esa Pietilä, Escalator over the Hill, ESP-Disk discography, Eternal Rhythm, Filmtracks 2000, Forever Burned, Fred Frith, Fred Maher, Freedom & Unity (album), Future Shock (Herbie Hancock album), Giant Robot (Buckethead album), Grace (Jeff Buckley album), Hallucination Engine, Horace Arnold, Horo Records, Horses & Trees, How to Turn the Moon, Hōzan Yamamoto, Intonarumori (album), Ivo Perelman, Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells, James Blood Ulmer, James Emery (musician), Jazzonia, Jeff Buckley, Jeffrey Morgan (musician), Jerome Cooper, Jim Hartog, Joachim Kühn, Joe Fonda, John Lindberg (jazz musician), John McLaughlin discography, John Tchicai, Jon Ballantyne, Just Another Night (Mick Jagger song), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Kesang Marstrand, Language Barrier (album), Lee Konitz discography, Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Live from Soundscape (Material album), Live in Japan (Material album), Lucky in Love (Mick Jagger song), Machine Gun (band), Marilyn Crispell, Mark Helias, Mark Jones (musician), Marzette Watts and Company, Masahiko Satoh, Material (band), Material discography, Memory Serves, Michael Beinhorn, Michael Stephans, Milestone Records discography, Mossa Bildner, MPS Records discography, Multikulti (album), NoBusiness Records, Oliver Lake, One Down, Ophelia (album), Palcoscenico Records, Paul Combs, Paul Plimley, Perfect Machine, Pete Namlook, Peter Apfelbaum, Peter Kowald, Petras Vyšniauskas, Points of Order, Randy Raine-Reusch, Ras Moshe, Rhythm Killers, Rise (Public Image Ltd song), Rockit (instrumental), Rudi Mahall, Seasons Change (Lee Konitz and Karl Berger album), Sebastian Gramss, Seven Souls (album), She's the Boss, Shin Terai, Skillfulness (album), So Long, Eric!, Sound-System (album), Steve Gorn, Stuttgart derby, Summit (groups), Symphony for Improvisers, Tani Tabbal, Temporary Music, The Burning World (album), The Lee Konitz Duets, The Redesign, The Third Power, Through a Crooked Sun, Togetherness (Don Cherry album), Tom Cora, Trilok Gurtu, Vitold Rek, Where Fortune Smiles, Woodstock Jazz Festival, Woodstock, New York, Yaya Diallo



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