An extraordinary universe of unexpected sounds as free jazz meets world music
On Thursday, October 29, 2009, the Creative Music Studio, offers a mini festival of musical conversations, featuring Kenny Wessel, guitar, Steve Gorn,bansuri flutes, Adam Rudolph,percussions, Don Davis,saxes and flutes, Badal Roy,tabla, Sylvain Leroux,flutes, Michael Bisio, bass Ingrid Sertso, vocals, Karl Berger, piano and vibes and surprise guest. The concert starts at 7:30 PM, with a second set starting at 9 PM. The net proceeds will benefit the ongoing CMS Archive Project.
“From the stage at Symphony Space, pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger wondered aloud: If he mentioned Creative Music Studio (CMS), the entity being celebrated this evening, would people know what he was talking about? It may still be one of the more obscure corners of the jazz universe, but CMS has had a major impact on improvising musicians across several generations. Part school, part artist colony, part performance space, CMS operated in Woodstock, N.Y. during the ’70s and ’80s and hosted many musical giants in the making, including Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton and Frederic Rzewski. Hours and hours of recordings were made at various CMS sites; the CMS Archive Project is digitizing the tapes with the intention of returning them to the artists (and storing them at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies).”
Jazz Times