Results tagged “Symphony Space” from Jazz Beyond Jazz

Berger,  the force behind the legendary, influential and under-reported Creative Music Studio of Woodstock -- with trumpeter/cornetist Graham Haynes, tenor saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum, tubaist Bob Stewart, guitarist Kenny Wessel, bassist Mark Helias, drummer Tani Tabal and vocalist Ingrid Sertso -- performed tunes Cherry included in his great albums of suites Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers (both on celebrated Blue Note Records, from 1965 and '66, respectively) as well as a couple recorded elsewhere, like "Art Deco," title track of a 1986 album. True to its name, the concert's operative plan was "in the spirit of . . ." rather than "note-for-note." The musicians, most of whom had worked directly with Cherry, evoked the beauty, playfulness, pathos, imagination, unforced complexity and constant interactivity he tapped in himself and others by blowing as if they were onstage with him.