by Shaun Brady
jazz
German pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger performed alongside many of the greats in improvised music, including Don Cherry, whose music he revisits with an all-star septet Sunday at I-House. But his most important contribution was the co-founding, with Ornette Coleman and vocalist Ingrid Sertso (who will also appear), of the Creative Music Studio, an influential center for music study in Woodstock in the 1970s and '80s where Cherry forged his innovative blend of free jazz and world music. Alongside other instrumentalists who performed with the late cornetist/composer, Berger will revisit several of Cherry's works with an appropriately open-minded spirit of reinvention.
Sun., May 9, 8 p.m., $12, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, arsnovaworkshop.org.


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