tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100103812024-03-05T07:09:07.548-05:00CMS UpdateCMS Update is a blog version of the email newsletter of the same name that I was circulating in 2001 and 2002. My intention in writing this blog is to keep all who are interested informed of the ongoing activities of the musicians, writers, promoters, and other kindred spirits who comprise the enduring Creative Music Studio community.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-63770676331289332172011-01-04T09:14:00.003-05:002011-01-04T09:19:50.155-05:00This Blog Has MovedHi, All:<br /><br />I'm now blogging at <a href="http://arborville.com/">http://arborville.com</a>.<br /><br />These old, archived posts will stay here for the time being. Look for new posts (after January 3, 2011) at the <a href="http://arborville.com/">new site</a>.<br /><br />And let me hear from ya'.<br /><br />BobUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-27735256119187626232010-12-12T11:06:00.003-05:002010-12-12T11:22:45.264-05:00More on the CMS Archive ProjectHave you received volume 1 of the Creative Music Studio Archive Selections?<br /><br />If so, please send Karl Berger and Ted Orr an email message (creativemusic@verizon.net) and say, "I got my volume 1."<br /><br />Also, it would be a big help if you could respond to Karl's Thanksgiving message (see the post below), and let him know whether or not you can attend CMS day at Columbia University next April. Even if you can't, just drop a Karl a line and say, "Wish I could be there; I think it's a terrific idea."<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/the-cms-archive-project/">CMS Archive Project</a> offers you a chance to capture and, if you were there, relive the sounds that made the Creative Music Studio such an extraordinary musical community. There's never been another place like it.<br /><br />"The collection is unique in its artistic scope: an international treasure, featuring some of the most outstanding and ground-breaking composers/performers in World Jazz, World Music, New Music." From the liner notes to Creative Music Studio Archive Selections, volume 1.<br /><br />Peace,<br /><br />BobUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-74598472200427113552010-11-27T10:24:00.007-05:002011-02-20T07:00:15.984-05:00Letter from Karl Berger; CMS Day at Columbia<span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE </span><span>(February 20, 2011)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><br />Hi, All. Although Karl mentions below that there were tentative plans afoot for a CMS party and festival in Woodstock on April 18, those plans have been scrapped. There will be no CMS events in Woodstock on April 18.<br /><br />April 18 will be the first of a series of CMS-style workshop performances at <a href="http://thestonenyc.com/">The Stone</a> in NYC. Stay tuned to <a href="http://arbprville.com/">CMS Update</a> at<a href="http://arbprville.com/"> http://arborville.com</a> for more information on that series.<br />***********************<br />Dear Friends,<br /><br />It is a long time since the <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">CMS</span></a> days, yet it feels just like yesterday. It's been great to reconnect with so many of you, as we strive to complete the <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/the-cms-archive-project/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">CMS</span> Archive Project</a>. Over 100 tapes have been re-mastered by Ted Orr, with more than 300 to go. It is exhilarating to listen to all this music in the process. There is truly nothing like this anywhere else.<br /><br />I'm writing to share some great news:<br /><br />SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011 WILL BE '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">CMS</span> DAY' AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK. Throughout the day, four panels will explore the oral histories and musical implications of the <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">Creative Music Studio</a>. Our desire is to involve as many of you as possible (and not just those who live in New York), sharing your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">CMS</span> Stories and memories, which will be recorded and used for an upcoming book as part of the <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/the-cms-archive-project/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">CMS</span> Archive Project</a>.<br /><br />On Sunday, April 17, 2011 I will lead a Student Ensemble from the Columbia Jazz Studies Program in a concert at Columbia University's Miller Theater, reminiscent of our orchestra sessions at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">CMS</span> in Woodstock and around the world. And, depending on your response, we might conclude the weekend with a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">CMS</span> Party-Festival on Monday evening, April 18, 2011 in Woodstock, where all of us can get another wonderful chance to play together again.<br /><br />If we are to preserve the spirit of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">CMS</span>, time is of the essence. We all are growing older, but hopefully our fond memories of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">CMS</span> are not. We need your active help to keep the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">CMS</span> spirit and legacy alive. Please help to:<br /><br /><ul><li>Connect us with all former participants at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">CMS</span></li></ul><ul><li>Join our membership/subscription program</li></ul><ul><li>Pass the membership/subscription info on to your contacts and friends</li></ul><ul><li>Lead us to radio and press contacts in your area</li></ul><ul><li>Be in touch with your personal ideas and suggestions on how we can re-invigorate <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">CMS</span>.<br /></li></ul>Once again, we're facing enormous financial pressure and cannot rely on outside support. We've tried grants and fundraising without much success. So now it's time to turn to you; we need to make it happen ourselves. If your time at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">CMS</span> gave you something unforgettable, now is the time to give thanks by giving back to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">CMS</span>, helping support the <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/the-cms-archive-project/">Archive Project</a> as described above. With your renewed energy, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">CMS</span> spirit and legacy will live on.<br /><br />I am eager to hear from you soon.<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving.<br /><br />Karl Berger<br />creativemusic@verizon.net<br /><a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-9227565923790987382010-11-06T11:32:00.002-04:002010-11-06T11:36:31.679-04:00CMS Day at Columbia UThis just in:<br /><br />Karl Berger writes:<br /><br />April 16, 2011 is CMS Day at Columbia University in New York City, with all-day panels exploring the “Oral History” of CMS and its participants. I hope that you will be able to participate and/or contribute to the life-changing stories surrounding the CMS legacy. More news on this to come.<br /><br />Thanks. with music always,<br />Karl Berger<br /><br />--<br />Creative Music Studio<br />POB 671<br />Woodstock, NY 12498<br />www.creativemusicstudio.orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-64865271414229802912010-07-20T20:48:00.003-04:002010-07-20T20:55:43.310-04:00Don Cherry on Albert AylerIf you're at all acquainted with what it was that made the Creative Music Studio a unique community, you'll know something about how important a figure Don Cherry was in CMS's history and development.<br /><br />And if you're at all familiar with Don Cherry's stature in creative music, you're likely to find his monolgue on his first meeting with Albert Ayler fascinating, as I did.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKoBBz1Sbzg&feature=PlayList&p=68A28C00FE14863E&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1">Don Cherry on Albert Ayler</a>, on YouTubeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-25843971630404714972010-06-28T20:24:00.004-04:002010-06-28T20:37:42.797-04:00Different Music V; CMS Goes to TurkeyOn Saturday, July 3, at the Colony in Woodstock:<br /><br />CMS Goes to Turkey!<br /><br />The Legendary Creative Music Studio Featured at Istanbul Festival*<br /><br />Sneak Preview Performances during the "The Different Music Festival" @ The Colony Café in Woodstock NY, July 3rd, features -Steve Gorn, Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, John Lindberg, Tani Tabbal, Ted Orr-the legendary CMS World Jazz Orchestra - CMS Funk All Stars - Blue Food/Futu Futu soloists.<br /><br />Woodstock's legendary Creative Music Studio will be the center of an unusual 11-day festival in Istanbul,Turkey, at the end of July, with a sneak preview for area music lovers at the Colony Café in Woodstock, Saturday July 3rd, 7:30pm.<br /><br />Turkish melodies will guide much of the improvisatory explorations that CMS is known for: exciting ensembles from Trios, Quintets to the legendary 18 piece CMS World Jazz Orchestra led by Karl Berger, take part in this festive evening, where every player is a soloist, including special guest Steve Gorn, bansuri flute, performing with Ingrid Sertso, vocals, CMS founder Berger, piano/vibes, John Lindberg, bass, Tani Tabbal, drums. The evening also includes the CMS Funk All Stars, led by Ted Orr and featuring the “Duchess of Funk” Alana Orchid and members of Blue Food and Futu Futu, plus CMS Orchestra Soloists.<br /><br />Proceeds for the Colony Cafe event will benefit the CMS Archive Project. Tickets are $ 25, students/seniors $ 20, CMS members/subscribers free.<br /><br />For more information on CMS, the Woodstock concert event and the Turkish fetsival, contact Stanton Warren at 845 679 8847.<br /><br />Why Turkey? CMS, known internationally as the birthplace of the contemporary world music movement, has always considered Turkey the Ground Zero of World Music, with influences converging from Asia, Africa and Europe. Several Turkish musicians were regulars at the CMS Woodstock campus in the 70s and 80s, notably composer/saxophonist Ismet Siral. The Istanbul event is dedicated to Ismet Siral and CMS. Therefore the title <a href="http://www.iscms.org/">ISCMS Festival </a>.<br /><br />The Turkish festival features 11 days of workshops and concerts. Some of what will be performed on July 3 at the Colony Café will be performed 4 weeks later in Istanbul by a host of international and Turkish performers and an international student body.<br /><br />The Creative Music Studio, founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, was the pre-eminent institution for world music and avant-garde jazz. Credited as the birthplace of World Jazz, the Creative Music Studio featured some of the world's most renowned improvising musician/composers. The <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">CMS community </a>now exists as a remarkable network of creative musicians all over the world.<br /><br />The Creative Music Studio Archive Project started two years ago: CMS collaborates with Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies in preserving its tape collection and providing first-person accounts of this exiting period of the development of free and world jazz. Among the extraordinary artists included on these recordings: Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Sam Rivers, Ed Blackwell, Foday Suso, Abdullah Ibrahim, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Giuffre, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Lacy, Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Paulo Moura, Nana Vasconcelos, Pauline Oliveros, Karl Berger, Trilok Gurtu, Steve Gorn, Ismet Siral, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jenkins, George Lewis, Olu Dara and many other stellar talents (for more info, visit <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/</a>. and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cmsarchive">http://www.myspace.com/cmsarchive</a> . CMS has had a major impact on improvising musicians across several generations" ... The Jazz Times.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-77764697008692770152010-06-28T20:16:00.002-04:002010-06-28T20:22:54.700-04:00Karl Berger at the StoneWe missed this one, folks. . . or were you there?<br /><br />Karl played at The Stone in NYC on June 27.<br /><br />It was "a CD release concert, with world-premiere performances of compositions/improvisations from Karl's Tzadik Release 'Strangely Familiar', introspective 'Miniatures for Piano Solo' (Tzadik Records)." <a href="http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=0">http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=0</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-10232438642161625452010-06-26T13:25:00.004-04:002010-06-26T13:34:54.685-04:00Vision Festival XV 2010It seems that the bigger <a href="http://www.visionfestival.org/">Vision Festival </a>gets, the fewer CMS alums I see in the lineup! The festival is huge this year. It includes once-upon-a-time CMS folks Hamid Drake, Joseph Jarman (natch), Marilyn Crispell, Wadada Leo Smith--that's all that I could recognize from the schedule.<br /><br />Good to see former Detroiters Gerald Cleaver and Salim Washington in the schedule.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-80100322310763197852010-05-16T20:23:00.002-04:002010-05-16T20:30:11.872-04:00Were You at CMS?Karl Berger and the folks at the Creative Music Studio would like to get your postal address.<br /><br />Karl says:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">To all CMS Participants of the 70s and 80s:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Please send us your postal mailing addresses by return mail, if you have not done so already. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We want to send you the first CMS Archive Selection CD.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">With music,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Karl Berger</span><br /><br />Send your postal (snail mail) address to creativemusicstudio@gmail.com .Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-52017746090761212282010-05-11T20:53:00.002-04:002010-05-11T20:56:10.025-04:00John Lindberg at The Stone in NYC, May 13I wish I could be there. I met John at the Creative Music Studio when he was just 17. What a force in creative music he has become. Gotta love that brash continuance<br /><br />Check him out if you're in the neighborhood.<br /><br /><p align="CENTER"> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>John Lindberg At The Stone<br /></b><br /><b>Thursday, May 13, 2010<br /></b><br /><b>The Stone, New York City<br /></b>2nd Street at Avenue B<br /><br /><b>8 pm<br />John Lindberg Solo Bass Performance<br /></b><br /><b>10 pm<br />John Lindberg’s TriPolar<br />w/ Don Davis & Kevin Norton<br /><br /><img onload="View.inlineImageLoaded(this,undefined,false)" src="http://email.secureserver.net/download.php?rand=354657&folder=INBOX&uid=18383&part=2&tnef_part=-1&aEmlPart=0&orig=cid%3A3355987979_865283&inline=1&filename=image.jpg&type=image%2Fjpeg&encoding=base64&" wbeuser="bsweet@arborville.com" /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.johnlindberg.com/">http://www.johnlindberg.com/</a> </span></b></span></span></span> </p> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br />In brash continuance of over thirty years of presenting solo bass performances, Lindberg will be playing a set of works, both old and new, energy-filled and spirit-driven, as always.<br /><br />Solo bass discography:<br /><br /><u>Comin’ and Goin’</u> – Leo Records (1979)<br /><u>Luminosity: Homage to David Izenzon</u> – Music & Arts (1996)<br /><br /><b>TriPolar</b> is Lindberg’s exhilarating current “working band” and features new works by the leader as well as extraordinary contributions by the composer/performers <b>Don Davis</b> (reeds) and <b>Kevin Norton</b> (percussion).<br /><br />Their recently completed album is:<br /><br /><b>(a)live at Roulette NYC</b> – jazzwerkstatt Records (2010), scheduled for a fall release.<br />Lindberg has released over fifty albums as leader/co-leader.<br /><br /><br />Video link to excerpt from recent live performance:<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/lindymgmt#p/a/u/1/TzaR1RJUK4Q">http://www.youtube.com/user/lindymgmt#p/a/u/1/TzaR1RJUK4Q</a><br /> </u></span><br /><b>The Stone<br />2nd Street at Avenue B<br /></b><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thestonenyc.com/">http://www.thestonenyc.com/</a></u></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-37690607809230690232010-05-06T20:59:00.002-04:002010-05-06T21:04:04.591-04:00Tom Djll on Anthony BraxtonCheck out <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/tom-djlls-posts/">Tom Djll's excellent post</a> on his encounters with Anthony Braxton and other characters (including moi truly) at CMS. It's worth the trip.<br /><br />Maybe if we stay tuned, we'll find out what happened to parts two and three.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-21428875504173686072010-05-05T20:24:00.003-04:002010-05-05T20:34:50.096-04:00Ornette Coleman Receives Honorary Doctorate (Obama, too)Ornette Coleman and Barack Obama both received honorary doctorates during the 2010 University of Michigan commencement ceremony on May 1--Ornette's in music, the president's in law.<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQDeMkWQ5gQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQDeMkWQ5gQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />It's a good thing that those who bestow the degree didn't know that when asked why he never came up to teach at the Creative Music Studio (even though he was a cofounder), Ornette's response was, "Well, you know, then people would think I know something!" (from <a href="http://arborville.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Music Universe, Music Mind</span></a>, page 26)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-43452703465146545832010-03-18T20:50:00.003-04:002010-03-18T20:55:18.030-04:00“Different Music Festival”--Gala!<span style="font-weight: bold;">Gala Music and Dance night to benefit the CMS Archive Project, and Celebrate the Launch of the First Series of Archive CDs</span><br /><br />(WOODSTOCK NY) March 10. On Saturday, March 20, the legendary CMS Orchestra will be the center of the first “Different Music Festival” in 2010 at the Colony Café in Woodstock NY., followed by a funk-intensive dance party with the amazing BLUE FOOD Band.<br /><br />The proceedings will start at 7 PM with small group improvisations and compositions, featuring saxophonist/flutists Peter Buettner and Don Davis, trumpeter Bob Selcoe, vibist Karl Berger, vocalist Ingrid Sertso and surprise guests.<br /><br />The CMS Orchestra conducted by Karl Berger, always good for exciting and deeply emotional statements, will follow at 8:30 PM. The CMS Orchestra is a glamorous group of jazz soloists, contributing to a unique and enlightening listening experience.<br /><br />Around 10 PM the dance floor is open to the music of Blue Food, a Woodstock funk institution which began in the late eighties as a funk outgrowth of the worldbeat group Futu Futu and whose main songbook comes from the legendary James Brown saxophonist and band director, Pee Wee Ellis. Blue Food features Paul Henderson, trumpet, Otto Kenrtrol, bari sax/flute, Peter Buettner, tenor/alto sax, Jack Ryon, tenor sax, Ted Orr, guitar, Mike Colletti, bass, and Tony Parker, drums. They will appear with an extended ensemble, utilizing players from the CMS orchestra. 98% funk, 2% jazz.<br /><br />Suggested contribution of admission is $20, with $15 for seniors and students. All proceeds go to support the CMS Archive Project ( see CreativeMusicStudio.org ).<br /><br />CMS members/subscribers (see the <a href="http://cmsupdate.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-news-on-cms-archive-subscriptions.html">"Archive Subscription"</a> post below) enjoy free admission.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-5272111591442938432010-02-24T08:28:00.004-05:002010-02-24T09:03:41.329-05:00More News on CMS Archive SubscriptionsThis is an update to the February 12 post below, "CMS Archive Recordings: You Can Subscribe!"<br /><br />There is now a <span style="font-weight: bold;">discount</span> available to those who were <span style="font-weight: bold;">CMS participants</span> during the years 1972-1984.<br /><br />Read on:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great News: Subscriptions to the CMS Archive Selections Available Now</span><br /><br />Listen to great music and help support the Creative Music Studio Archive Project.<br /><br />As many of you know, the Creative Music Studio is digitally remastering its archive of hundreds of hours of never-heard-before music, featuring important artists from Anthony Braxton, Nana Vasconcelos, Jimmy Giuffre, and George Lewis to Frederic Rzewski, Ed Blackwell and many others ( see <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">www.creativemusicstudio.org</a> )<br /><br />The project is being funded primarily by CMS fans, friends, musicians and colleagues all over the world. By becoming a subscribing CMS member, you can directly support the CMS Archive Project. That's good. What's even better is that you'll get an advance copy of each recording before it's released to the public. ( Vol.1 is scheduled to be released on April 1 by Planet Arts Records.)<br /><br />"CMS Archive Selections" will issue two recordings per year for a total of 12.<br />The first volume, with music by David Izenzon, solo and in trio with Ingrid Sertso and Karl Berger, Oliver Lake and the CMS Orchestra, and Foday Suso with the Mandingo Griot Society, featuring Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph is ready now. Subsequent releases will feature rare CMS performances by Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Giuffre, Nana Vasconcelos, Frederic Rzewski, Karl Berger, and many others.<br /><br />For the basic membership/subscription of $60 per year, you'll receive 2 volumes of the CMS Archive Selection CDs annually, as well as regular updates on the Archive Project, and notices/discounts on CMS events and workshops, including Oral History events and music online.<br /><br />For the premium membership/subscription of $95 per year you'll receive, in addition, full access, by password, to the Online Archive, including webstreams of unreleased tracks and videos, new "oral history" events, blogs and new concert recordings, and your name will be listed in the booklets of upcoming CMS Archive Selection CDs as a sustaining member.<br /><br />CMS Participants of the archived times (1972-1984) will get the membership / subscription reduced further to $50 for the basic and $80 for the premium membership/subscription. Archive engineer Ted Orr will be loading up new streaming music each month for premium members to enjoy, as well as some free bonus downloads.<br /><br />Musicians may also become Active Members by participating in concerts benefiting the CMS Archive Project. Participants in CMS Archive concerts also earn reductions in studio fees for recording, editing, mixing, mastering projects of their own at Woodtsock's Sertso Studio ( Ted Orr, chief engineer).<br /><br />Your membership is the only way we can digitize and distribute music from the Archive, music that's historically important and great to listen to. Your patronage will ensure that the music of CMS will remain vibrant and available to fans and students around the world. And time is of the essence here: it is now or never to<br />preserve the rich oral histories of the Creative Music Studio.<br /><br />All additional contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law: the Creative Music Foundation, Inc is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.<br /><br />Please help keep the music of CMS alive by becoming a member today. If you subscribe before March 31, you will receive a limited edition advance copy signed by Karl Berger, and your name will be listed in upcoming CD liner notes as one of the special members that helped in the initiation of the CMS Archive Selection Series.<br /><br />Please make checks payable to CMS (or Creative Music Studio) and send to CMS, POB 671, Woodstock N.Y. 12498. Your membership includes shipping/handling costs. Or simply make your pledge by email to creativemusic@verizon.net, stating your postal mailing address.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-37387790018763280652010-02-20T15:57:00.006-05:002010-02-20T16:34:11.231-05:00Omar Faruk Tekbilek on Link TVI came across this great <a href="http://www.linktv.org/video/1736">Link TV interview of Omar Faruk Tekbilek</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.omarfaruktekbilek.com/index.html">Omar Faruk</a> and his brother Haci, along with Ismet Siral and Murat Verdi, were part of the CMS Turkish connection that thrilled so many CMS participants in the early eighties.<br /><br />In <a href="http://www.arborville.com/">Music Universe, Music Mind</a>, Adam Rudolph refers to the Sufi/Mandingo melding of musics that he and Hamid Drake enjoyed with the Turkish musicians as "magic moments."<br /><br />Our friend Dost Kip from Istanbul has been working to put together a film about the CMS Turkish connection and has also managed to put together at least one <a href="http://cmsupdate.blogspot.com/2006/10/inauguration-of-ismet-siral-creative.html">CMS-style workshop in Istanbul</a>.<br /><br />I haven't heard from Dost in quite a while, so I'm not sure how things are going over there. If you're in Istranbul, be sure to look him up and tell him I said hey.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-18773204405082837852010-02-12T08:32:00.002-05:002010-02-12T08:35:21.344-05:00CMS Archive Recordings: You Can Subscribe!Listen to great music and help support the Creative Music Studio Archive Project<br /><br />As many of you know, the Creative Music Studio is digitally remastering its archive of hundreds of hours of never-heard-before music, featuring important artists from Anthony Braxton, Nana Vasconcelos, Jimmy Giuffre, and George Lewis to Frederic Rzewski, Ed Blackwell and many others ( see <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org">www.creativemusicstudio.org </a>)<br /><br />The project is being funded primarily by CMS fans, friends, musicians and colleagues all over the world. By becoming a subscribing CMS member, you can directly support the CMS Archive Project. That's good. What's even better is that you'll get an advanced copy of each recording before it's released to the public ( Vol.1 April 1, Planet Arts Records ).<br /><br /> "CMS Archive Selections" will issue two recordings per year for a total of 12. The first volume, with music by David Izenzon, solo and in trio with Ingrid Sertso and Karl Berger, Oliver Lake and the CMS Orchestra, and Foday Suso with the Mandingo Griot Society, featuring Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph is ready now. Subsequent releases will feature rare CMS performances by Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Giuffre, Nana Vasconcelos, Frederic Rzewski, Karl Berger, and many others.<br /><br />For the basic membership/subscription of $60 per year, you'll receive 2 volumes of the CMS Archive Selection CDs annually, as well as regular updates on the Archive Project, and notices/discounts on CMS events and workshops, including Oral History events and music online.<br /><br />For the premium membership/subscription of $95 per year you'll receive, in addition, full access, by password, to the Online Archive, including webstreams of unreleased tracks and videos, new "oral history" events, blogs and new concert recordings, and your name will be listed in the booklets of upcoming CMS Archive Selection CDs as a sustaining member.<br /><br />Your membership is the only way we can digitize and distribute music from the Archive, music that's historically important and great to listen to. Your patronage will ensure that the music of CMS will remain vibrant and available to fans and students around the world. And time is of the essence here.<br /><br />All additional contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law: the Creative Music Foundation, Inc is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.<br /><br />Please help keep the music of CMS alive by becoming a member today. If you subscribe before March 31, you will receive a limited edition advance copy signed by Karl Berger, and your name will be listed in upcoming CD liner notes as one of the special members that helped in the initiation of the CMS Archive Selection Series.<br /><br />Please make checks payable to CMS (or Creative Music Studio) and send to CMS, POB 671, Woodstock N.Y. 12498. Your membership includes shipping/handling costs. Or simply make your pledge by email to creativemusic@verizon.net, stating your postal mailing address.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-67514565952345932562010-02-09T20:40:00.004-05:002010-02-12T09:00:31.775-05:00Lisle Ellis, Bass and Circuitry<span style="font-style: italic;">Lisle Ellis is active as an acoustic and electronic musician, visual artist, and a lecturer in creative process and jazz history. As a bassist/composer/improvisor he has performed and recorded with many of the world's foremost muscians in the field of jazz, improvised, creative and new and experimental musics. Currently living in New York City, Ellis leads his own ensemble whose music often reflects his interest in electronic music and its applications in improvisational contexts as well as his ongoing relationship with the acoustic bass. </span><br />From <a href="http://www.lisleellis.com/">http://www.lisleellis.com</a><br /><br />Lisle Ellis was living in the San Francisco area when I interviewed him for the book <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://arborville.com/index.html">Music Universe, Music Mind</a>. But it turns out that for a lot of musicians who head out West (or start out West--Lisle's roots are in Vancouver), the magnetism of New York is just too strong to resist.<br /><br />I found out that Lisle had moved to New York by coming across a little article about him in the magazine <span style="font-style: italic;">Electronic Musician </span>(Murphy, Bill Pro/File: Lisle Ellis - Bass and Circuitry<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Electronic Musician</span> 25:6 (June 2009) p. 22.).<br /><br />From the article:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York City has always been a hotbed of experimentation, especially when it comes to avant-garde jazz. For bassist Lisle Ellis, who has worked with certified heavyweights (Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley) and contemporary rebels (John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann), the legacy of the city's arts and music scenes has been a near-constant source of inspiration going back to the late '70s, when he lived in the city and studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock.</span><br /><br />I consider Lisle's account of his Cecil Taylor experience at CMS to be one of the high points of <a href="http://arborville.com/index.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Music Universe, Music Mind</span></a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-63534428838960293922010-02-06T12:05:00.003-05:002010-02-12T09:00:52.217-05:00Usula Oppens Wins GrammyPianist <a href="http://www.colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=41">Ursula Oppens</a>, who was a strong figure in CMS's "classical avant garde" contingent, won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra) for her album <span style="font-style: italic;">Oppens Plays Carter. </span><br /><br />She has received two Grammy nominations prior to winning in 2010.<br /><br />Ursula and <a href="http://cmsupdate.blogspot.com/2008/04/frederic-rzewski.html">Frederic Rzewski</a> were collaborators at CMS, and she continues to perform Rzewski's music.<br /><br />Congratulations, Ursula OppensUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-79712002112095977892010-01-14T21:08:00.003-05:002010-02-12T09:01:15.079-05:00Cyro Baptista Workshop in NYCVery Special Workshop at THE STONE in NYC<br /><br />The Stone (corner of avenue C and 2nd st. NYC) Monday January 18, 2010, 7PM to 9PM.<br /><br />No advanced tickets! Get there early to reserve a spot!!<br /><br />Not just for percussionists but open to all musicians, Cyro will work with the participants using their hands, feet and voice, clapping, stomping and singing with the objective of acquiring polyrhythmic awareness. Starting with basic rhythms and getting into more complex patterns, the students will develop their perception and musical intuition both individually and as an ensemble.<br /><br />This is part of The Stone's special series dedicated to contemporary music practice. In the interest of updating and supplementing contemporary music education, The Stone initiates a special series of workshops, lectures, seminars and Q&As on a variety of fascinating subjects by some of the world's most unique, cutting edge musical thinkers. Made available to musicians, students, critical thinkers and the general public at affordable prices, all curricula will be decided by the musicians themselves and presented at the Stone at 7pm every Monday night.<br /><br /><br />For More Information about this Special Workshop, <a href="http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1">Click Here!</a><br /><br />Check out Cyro on the web:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyro+baptista">http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyro+baptista</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cyrobaptista">http://www.myspace.com/cyrobaptista</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Cyro-Baptista/670532192">http://www.facebook.com/people/Cyro-Baptista/670532192</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-87848193474463067522009-10-29T08:58:00.003-04:002009-10-29T09:06:11.623-04:00CMS Minifestival at Symphony SpaceAn Extraordinary Universe of Unexpected Sounds as Free Jazz Meets World Music<br /><br />On Thursday, October 29, 2009, at the Thalia Theatre ( Symphony Space ) in New York, the Creative Music Studio offers a mini festival of musical conversations, featuring Kenny Wessel, guitar, Steve Gorn, bansuri flutes, Graham Haynes, cornet, Sylvain Leroux, flutes, Adam Rudolph percussion, Jorge Sylvester, alto sax, Badal Roy, tablas, flutes, Michael Bisio, bass, Ingrid Sertso, vocals, Karl Berger, piano, vibes and surprise guest.<br /><br />The concert will benefit the ongoing Archive Project of the legendary Creative Music Studio (see <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org">www.creativemusicstudio.org</a>). "Oral Histories", stories from the CMS days, alternate with musical conversations in the free-wheeling spirit of CMS.<br /><br />Mingle with fellow music lovers, enjoy light food and drinks, and join in conversation with the artists at 6:30pm as Symphony Space's artistic director and composer Laura Kaminsky moderates Underscore: Cocktails and Conversation.<br /><br />The concert starts at 7:30 PM, with a second set starting at 9 PM. Advance tickets are $ 25, day of show 30.<br /><br />For reservations go to <a href="http://www.SymphonySpace.org">www.SymphonySpace.org</a> or call 212 864 5400. The Thalia Theatre is located on 95th and Broadway in New York.<br /><br />CMS collaborates with Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies in preserving its tape collection and providing first-person accounts of this exiting period of the development of free and world jazz.<br /><br />The Creative Music Studio, founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, was the pre-eminent institution for world music and avant-garde jazz.<br /><br />Credited as the birthplace of Worldjazz, the Creative Music Studio featured some of the world's most renowned improvising musician/composers.<br /><br />The CMS community now exists as a remarkable network of creative musicians all over the world.<br /><br />The Creative Music Studio is a program of the Creative Music Foundation, Inc.,a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible.<br /><br />Please consider making the Creative Music Foundation one of your charities of choice. Thank you !<br /><br />"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." Jazz TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-85054595649518844512009-10-21T20:17:00.004-04:002009-10-21T20:32:08.822-04:00What's Goin' On In Woodstock?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBBuK8vcL9pyixS5sKfZPfNLjdHX06W8jxL_7awA3UN8yI4gsiObHRwyDFyk3-ThAod0ZJeOMgkp65o1AEkGrjBA3iQQ81jYq0dgeEiPAEXdHxR2cgVcX4c47647IuPJaZiRa/s1600-h/Ingrid-Sertso-photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBBuK8vcL9pyixS5sKfZPfNLjdHX06W8jxL_7awA3UN8yI4gsiObHRwyDFyk3-ThAod0ZJeOMgkp65o1AEkGrjBA3iQQ81jYq0dgeEiPAEXdHxR2cgVcX4c47647IuPJaZiRa/s200/Ingrid-Sertso-photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395215104045574066" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24tccS01Y89B-tvN5_Qm1CWm9_Od9iJCzN7Vmj-auMslIISGdHCS0kyyuYxP3zetK9OHulNO2MJBemrS2G16JrtQELqloMXeaMxNNIoNRfsK6P10KxwLhFOBYmmfOqdny1Y2N/s1600-h/KHB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24tccS01Y89B-tvN5_Qm1CWm9_Od9iJCzN7Vmj-auMslIISGdHCS0kyyuYxP3zetK9OHulNO2MJBemrS2G16JrtQELqloMXeaMxNNIoNRfsK6P10KxwLhFOBYmmfOqdny1Y2N/s200/KHB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395214984121429906" border="0" /></a><br />The legendary Workshop with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso<br />is coming back to Woodstock.<br /><br />Hey, that's good news!<br /><br />Here's the blurb from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1654456000&ref=nf">Karl's Facebook page</a>:<br /><br />No instruments needed.<br /><br />Although seasoned music lovers and musicians will gain new perspectives from this work, no prior musical knowledge is needed in order to participate.<br /><br />We begin by vitalizing the breath with sound and movement and vocalize through easy rhythmic-melodic improvisations.<br /><br />We proceed to focus on timing and spontaneous attention, playfully using voice and movement with a practice of the legendary GaMaLaTaTaKi® technique.<br /><br />We consciously explore and develop our sense of time and space through playing and listening.<br /><br />We learn to be in touch with our natural Music Mind.<br /><br />We travel to places that we didn’t even know existed. Your experiences of listening to and playing music will never be the same again.<br /><br />Wednesdays at 6 PM in Woodstock ( please inquire at 845 679 8847 ).<br /><br />Sequence of 4 weekly sessions, $ 80. Sliding scale. Work study scholarships available.<br />First sequence starting October 28.<br /><br />For more information + sign-up please call CMS Studio at 845.679.8847<br />or Lou Pollack at 845.679.8508. E mail: creativemusic@verizon.net<br />www.creativemusicstudio.org, www.karlberger.com<br />www.myspace.com/ingridsertso<br /><br />UPCOMING:<br /><br />Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Friends will perform in concert<br />Saturday, November 7 at the Kleinert Gallery, WoodstockUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-68898460039719585472009-08-10T20:14:00.003-04:002009-08-10T20:26:14.300-04:00"Different Music" FestivalThis was, what, the third Different Music Festival?<br /><br />Well, it happened on the weekend, Saturday, August 8.<br /><br />Here'a Facebook page on it: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=100835608212&ref=nf">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=100835608212&ref=nf</a><br /><br />In case you don't feel like clicking on over to Facebook, here's the lowdown:<br /><br />“Different Music” Festival & World Beat Dance Party to Benefit the Creative Music Studio’s Archive Project<br /><br />Saturday August 8, 7 PM to Midnight<br />The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock N.Y.<br /><br />(Woodstock NY) July 22, 2009: This summer we celebrate music history generated from Woodstock. Another major Woodstock force in the history of music is the Creative Music Studio.<br /><br />The Creative Music Studio announces a one-night only “DIFFERENT MUSIC” FESTIVAL, featuring some of the finest jazz and world-beat musicians playing together in small groups and orchestra, Saturday, August 8, 7p-Midnight at the Colony Café, Woodstock NY.<br /><br />The evening concludes with a World Beat Dance Party to the music of Futu Futu, the popular jam band-fun-roots music ensemble that originated at CMS, the pioneering avant-garde jazz and world music school and performance center based in Woodstock from 1971 until the late ‘80’s.<br /><br />The “DIFFERENT MUSIC” Festival is part of a series of events to benefit the CMS Archive Project to digitize the extraordinary collection of concert tapes featuring the giants of jazz and world music recorded in the heyday of CMS.<br /><br />Festival ticket price: $20, $15 for students<br /><br /> Different Music Festival schedule:<br /><br /> 7pm- Small Group Conversations -Gems of improvised chamber music: <br /><br /> A set of solo/duo/trio delicacies featuring Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Steve Bernstein, John Lindberg, Don Davis, Bob Selcoe, and special guests.<br /><br /> 8:30pm- The legendary CMS Orchestra<br /><br />An improvising music extravaganza, featuring all of the above players plus special guests Janet Grice, bassoon, Jane Scarpantoni cello, Jayna Nelson, flutes, Bob Selcoe, Joe McPhee, Paul Henderson, Nathan Brenowitz, trumpets, Joe Giardullo, sopranosax, Don Davis, Jorge Sylvester, altosax, Peter Buettner, flute and tenor sax, Tom Collins, Bill Ylitalo, baritone sax, Ted Orr, guitar, John Lindberg, bass, Tani Tabbal, drums, Chuck Ver Straeten, vocals, Ingrid Sertso, poetry, vocals, Karl Berger, conducting.<br /><br />10pm-12am - World Beat Dance Party with Futu Futu!!!<br /><br />Featuring Joakim Lartey, Percussion, Vocal; Chris Lané, Guitar,Fx, Vocal; Ted Orr, MIDI Guitar; Peter Buettner, Saxophone; guests- Alana Orr, Bass; Tani Tabbal, Drums, and other special guests from the CMS Orchestra. This African Funk mix makes you dance, on your feet and in your head.<br /><br /><br />- The Creative Music Studio Archive Project is preserving the large collection of live performances -more than 350 audio and video tapes - recorded from 1972 to 1986 at CMS facilities in Woodstock NY, as well as other concerts sites in the USA. CMS has joined forces with Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies to complete the project, which will be housed at Columbia as part of the CJS Jazz Studies Online program.<br /><br />Under the guidance of CMS-Director Karl Berger, master engineer and composer Ted Orr leads the effort to transfer and re-master the tapes. The new masters are being stored and backed up in 3 digital formats (Hard Drive, CDs, DVDs ).<br /><br />Among the extraordinary artists featured on these recordings:<br /><br />Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Sam Rivers, Ed Blackwell, Foday Suso, Abdullah Ibrahim, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Giuffre, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Lacy, Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Paulo Moura, Nana Vasconcelos, Pauline Oliveros, Karl Berger, Baikida Carroll, Trilok Gurtu, Steve Gorn, Ismet Siral, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jenkins, George Lewis, Olu Dara and many other stellar talents (for a complete list, visit <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">www.CreativeMusicStudio.org</a> ).<br /><br />Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, The Creative Music Studio was the pre-eminent institution for world music and avant-garde jazz. Credited as the birthplace of Worldjazz, CMS was a hotbed of creativity and improvisation featuring some of the world's most renowned improvising musician/composers.<br /><br />The CMS community now exists as a remarkable network of creative musicians all over the world.<br /><br />For more information on CMS and the Archive Project – visit <a href="http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/">www.CreativeMusicStudio.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.myspace.cm/cmsarchive">www.myspace.com/cmsarchive</a>.<br /><br />For information on Futu Futu - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/futufutu">www.myspace.com/futufutu</a>.<br /><br />Different Music Festival, contact Stanton Warren creativemusicstudio@gmail.com 845-679-5616Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-17115646391260639132009-05-28T20:33:00.005-04:002009-05-28T20:43:45.767-04:00Vision Festival XIV June 9 - 15, 2009Vision Fest, y'all!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.visionfestival.org/">http://www.visionfestival.org/</a><br /><br />This year there seems to be far fewer folks from the CMS family performing at Vision Fest. Not that you should base your decision to go on that fact--I just think it's interesting to note who's there who had some involvement with the CMS community.<br /><br />From the Chicago contingent: Hamid Drake, Douglas R. Ewart, Shaku Joseph Jarman, and J.D. Parran.<br /><br />From the way-out-west coast: Lisle Ellis.<br /><br />Bob Moses will represent New England.<br /><br />I should point out Henry Grimes, too. Henry wasn't really a CMS guy, but he did have an association with Karl Berger during Karl's early days in New York, while Karl was doing what he did to lay the groundwork for CMS.<br /><br />I've never been to Vision Fest, have you? If you go, drop me a line and let me know how it was.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-20440691914447968632009-05-27T20:04:00.002-04:002009-05-27T20:09:59.941-04:00Tedd Orr UpdateI heard from Karl Berger today, who said that Ted Orr's benefit was a big success (see post below). He made the money that he needed for eye surgery, has already had the surgery, and is seeing so well now that he can even drive.<br /><br />Hot dog!<br /><br />Congratulations, Ted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10010381.post-5141775695228878692009-04-17T20:14:00.005-04:002009-04-17T21:08:21.769-04:00Ted Orr; Benefit Concerts, April 24 and May 24<a href="http://www.myspace.com/tedorr">Ted Orr</a> is a helluva guitarist.<br /><br />He's also a CMS alumnus and a recording engineer who collaborates with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in running the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sertsostudio">Sertso Studio</a> in Woodstock. Sertso Studio houses the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cmsarchive">Creative Music Studio Archive</a> and is the home of ACR (Artists-Create-Recordings), an umbrella label for productions by members of the Creative Music Foundation, Inc.<br /><br />I'll let Ted tell you in his own words about his upcoming benefit concerts:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I am a musician and audio engineer. I was diagnosed with diabetes 4 years ago, after having it for over 20 years. As a result of having it untreated for so long , I developed retinopathy and neuropathy. I have teetered on the edge of legal blindness for 4 years, and after my next surgery my doctor tells me I will be able to read and drive again. I am having 2 benefits to raise the money for the surgey. On Friday, April 24 at Beardville theater, we will have Jack DeJohnette and David Sancious , John Sebastian, Mambo Kikiongo,Voodelic, Chimi Choden, Gilles Malkine, Ras T Asheber, Stoney Clove Lane, Duchess Of Funk, and DJ Dave Leonard ! Also there will be a silent auction and medical technicians on hand to test blood sugar. On Sunday, May 24th, Keegan Ale House in Kingston, NY will present '3' and 'Futu Futu.' Hope to 'see' you!!!"<br /><br /></span>If you're in the neigborhood, stop on in. Help Ted out. Gonna be some great music.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0