The Creative Music Studio ( CMS ) was a premier study center for contemporary creative music during the 1970s and 1980s, based in Woodstock, New York . Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger , Ingrid Sertso, and Ornette Coleman , it brought together students and leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS has provided participants with an opportunity to interact personally with musical giants of improvisation and musical thought.
20-397: At CMS, the concept of 'Worldjazz' was born: the improvisational and compositional expansion of the world's musical traditions, guided by authentic leaders. Hundreds of live concerts were recorded, many regarded as landmark performances. Thousands of workshops, master classes, concerts and colloquia inspired a generation of musicians. In 1981, the organization celebrated its 10th anniversary at
40-618: A body of music. Based on a 45-acre campus with multiple residences, workshop rooms and performance halls, hundreds of Guiding Artists, including several MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award winners ( George Lewis , John Zorn , Cecil Taylor , John Cage , Charlie Haden ), lived, played and shared musical wisdom with thousands of participants, many of whom became well-known musicians, including Peter Apfelbaum , Steven Bernstein , Cyro Baptista , Marilyn Crispell , Sylvain Leroux and John Zorn . The CMS facility closed in 1984, but its masterclasses continued in
60-666: A concert titled the " Woodstock Jazz Festival ". The CMS facility in Woodstock closed in 1984, but its masterclasses continued as the World Jazz Encounters program internationally. In 2013, a facility was re-established, with sessions in the spring and fall, in Big Indian, New York . CMS began to digitize the archive of performances recorded during CMS workshops and special events. In 1971 musicians Karl Berger , Ingrid Sertso (his wife) and Ornette Coleman founded
80-465: A member of Levon Helm 's Midnight Ramble band, playing in Helm's Woodstock home, as well as touring with the band. As an arranger Bernstein has written for Bill Frisell , Rufus Wainright , Marianne Faithfull and Elton John among others. He has composed for dance, theatre, film and television, and with composer John Lurie , arranged the scores to many feature films, including Get Shorty . Bernstein
100-595: A place where music as a universal language could be explored and expanded. They called it the Creative Music Studio, or CMS. Courses began in 1972. Established in New York as a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, for most of its 40 years, the organization's main program was the CMS at a physical location in Woodstock, NY, where musicians from all over the world lived, played, interacted with each other and created
120-448: A second New Year's Intensive. • CMS's Woodstock Workshop Orchestra takes a four-week tour of Europe. The orchestra includes Karl and Ingrid, Oliver Lake, Lee Konitz, Trilok Gurtu, Don Cherry, George Lewis, and many CMS participants. • The first of a series of annual world-music summer festivals/seminars includes Don Cherry, Trilok Gurtu, Steve Gorn, Alhaji Bai Konte, Nana Vasconcelos, Guilherme Franco, and others. • Roscoe Mitchell leads
140-745: A summer session with workshops by Joseph Jarman, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, and A. Spencer Barefield. 1980 • New Year's Intensive session features Cecil Taylor. • Karl conducts “Advanced Studies in Improvisational Composition” at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada, with Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Ed Blackwell, Frederic Rzewski, and others. • Summer world-music festival includes Jerry Gonzalez, Aiyb Dieng, Mandingo Griot Society with Adam Rudolph, Ismet Siral, Haci Tekbilek, and many of
160-617: The Art Ensemble of Chicago strengthens the connection between CMS and the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). • Garret List organizes the first of three Composers’ Colloquia. This one includes Ken McIntyre, John Cage, Maryanne Amacher, Michael Gibbs, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Carla Bley, Garret List, and Karl Berger. 1979 • Art Ensemble of Chicago returns for
180-1058: The CMS Archive Project, CD compilations, a CMS Oral History Project, a partnership with Columbia University Jazz Studies Program, improvisers performances and ongoing residencies, continuing workshops and performances in New York City, Woodstock and around the world. In 2013, CMS began hosting residential workshops in the Catskills again, at the Full Moon Resort. Artists at these workshops have included MacArthur Fellows Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman , 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning composer Henry Threadgill as well as Dave Douglas , Joe Lovano , John Medeski and Steven Bernstein , among others. A CMS Scholarship Program has enabled roughly half of workshop participants to receive full or partial scholarships, helping musicians from Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Poland and
200-588: The CMS Archive Project. In 2012, Columbia University Library purchased the CMS Archive to preserve it for posterity. Some of the performances in the Archive are included in recordings made available to the public. Two three-CD sets were produced in 2014 and 2015 and garnered rave reviews from critics worldwide, including being named ‘Best Historical Release’ by Cadence and Jazz Times magazine. Rob Saffer, who served as executive director from 2010 to 2017, supported
220-568: The Creative Music Foundation. Its initial advisory board, composed of legends from all aspects of music, the arts and philosophy, included composer John Cage , conductor/musician Gil Evans , philosopher/educator Buckminster Fuller , composer George Russell , painter Willem de Kooning and composer/conductor Gunther Schuller . Their goal was to establish a nonprofit organization focused on improvisation and musical cross-pollination that complemented musicians’ academic studies,
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#1732782959671240-638: The New School for Social Research. 1971 • Ornette Coleman, Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso establish the Creative Music Foundation. 1973 • Creative Music Studio begins offering instructional workshops at various locations in Woodstock, New York. • Early sessions feature Karl and Ingrid, Leroy Jenkins, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Lee Konitz, Don Cherry, Sam Rivers, Richard Teitelbaum, Stu Martin, Garrett List, and Ed Blackwell. 1975 • Karl and Ingrid first travel to Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, at
260-503: The USA attend workshops. In 2018, Billy Martin assumed the position of president of CMS. The timeline is based on the organization's history records. 1965-1966 • Karl and Ingrid come to New York. Karl comes as a member of Don Cherry 's band. 1967 • Karl joins Horacee Arnold, Sam Rivers, and Reggie Workman for “Young Audiences” teaching program in New York public schools. 1970-1971 • Karl takes over John Cage's teaching position at
280-643: The World Jazz Encounters program, holding masterclasses internationally, in the United States, Germany, Italy, Brazil, West Africa, India, the Philippines and Japan. Berger and his wife re-established a CMS facility in 2013, with sessions in the spring and fall, in Big Indian, New York . In addition, the Creative Music Foundation began efforts to digitize the immense archive of recorded performances recorded during CMS workshops and special events. Over 550 concerts were recorded and were digitized as part of
300-539: The artists from the 1979 session. • Composers’ Colloquium includes Douglas Ewart, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis (all from the AACM), and others. 1981 • Woodstock Jazz Festival held as a fund raiser. Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette, Ed Blackwell, and a host of CMS participants perform. • Watazumido Dozo Roshi, bamboo flute master and Japanese national treasure visits CMS. • Pauline Oliveros comes to CMS to help develop and sustain
320-531: The invitation of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who gave Ingrid the name Sertso (“gold lake of understanding”). • CMS moves into Lutheran camp in Mt. Tremper, New York. 1977 • Creative Music Foundation purchases Oehler's Mountain Lodge. 1978 • Writers Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders hold poetry workshops at CMS. • CMS receives Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grant. • New Year's Intensive session with
340-556: The organization. 1982 • New Year's Intensive session features Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, and Dave Holland. • Summer world music festival features Babtaunde Olatunji as well as various reggae bands. 1983 • Karl and Ingrid purchase a house on the property of the Lutheran Camp in Mt. Tremper, where CMS had been located 1975-1977. It's called Welcome House and serves as a residence and a workshop/performance space. Woodstock Jazz Festival The Woodstock Jazz Festival
360-716: Was held in 1981 in Woodstock, New York . It was a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio , founded in 1971 by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman . The shows headliners were Jack Dejohnette , Chick Corea , Pat Metheny , Anthony Braxton , Lee Konitz , and Miroslav Vitouš . Other musicians include Dewey Redman , Nana Vasconcelos , Baikida Carroll , Collin Walcott , Aiyb Dieng , Ed Blackwell , Howard Johnson and Marilyn Crispell . It has been released several times on DVD. It
380-782: Was nominated for a Grammy. Bernstein has been the musical director for the Kansas City Band (from Robert Altman 's film Kansas City ), Jim Thirlwell 's Steroid Maximus and Hal Wilner 's Leonard Cohen , Doc Pomus and Bill Withers projects. Bernstein has released four albums under his own name on John Zorn 's Tzadik Records : Diaspora Soul , Diaspora Blues , Diaspora Hollywood and Diaspora Suite . He has performed with jazz giants including Roswell Rudd , Sam Rivers , Don Byron and Medeski, Martin & Wood , as well as musicians ranging from Aretha Franklin to Lou Reed , from Linda Ronstadt to Digable Planets , from Sting to Courtney Love . Since 2004 Bernstein has been
400-556: Was released on CD in two volumes by Knitting Factory Records . Steven Bernstein (musician) Steven Bernstein (born October 8, 1961) is an American trumpeter , slide trumpeter , arranger/composer and bandleader based in New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards , Sex Mob , Spanish Fly and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. Sex Mob's 2006 CD Sexotica
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