Karl Berger + Ingrid Sertso - Musica Poetica

  Legendary jazz vibraphonist/pianist Karl Berger and vocalist/poet Ingrid Sertso released their last album, Musica Poetica via Our Silent Canvas Records.   These prolific musicians and longtime collaborators co-founded Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY with Ornette Coleman in 1972 to encourage students to pursue their own ideas about music. Ingrid and Karl have had incredible, influential careers, performing with dozens of talented musicians including Don Cherry, Lee Kolnitz, Dave Brubeck, Ed Blackwell, Dave Holland and so many others. You can dive deep into Karl’s history on his website karlbergermusic.com and read more about Ingrid at CMS here. The concept of Musica Poetica is based on the idea that most of the music we hear has a kind of language quality, and what applies to communication through language applies also to music, but in a more precise way. Karl says “take the essence of what you're talking about rather than the object of what you're talking about. Essentially w