# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-berger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:23:13.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-berger"
name: "Karl Berger"
slug: "karl-berger"
description: "Karl Hans Berger was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator. He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life. He founded the educational Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, in 1972 with his wife and Ornette Coleman, to encourage international students to pursue their own ideas about music."
tagline: "German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer (1935–2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Karl_Berger_%281a%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-03-30"
deathDate: "2023-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.02016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11386867/"
    handle:    "nm11386867"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "كارل بيرغر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "كارل بيرجر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%B1_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "کارل بیرقر (شارکی یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Berger"
    title: "Karl Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Berger_(Musiker)"
    title: "Karl Berger (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Berger"
    title: "Karl Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Berger"
    title: "Karl Berger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "カール・ベルガー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/68b85a06-24d9-4e4d-9058-7c3aa4f36dc5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q871826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1716062"
    title: "Karl Berger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump