Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra at Shapeshifter Lab Reviewed

From NYTimes.com:

From the outside it can seem that Mr. Berger has had an interrupted life as leader of bands and maker of records. (You’d think that someone who created work as excellent as, say, “Crystal Fire,” his 1991 trio album with Dave Holland and Ed Blackwell, should have a bigger discography and presence in clubs.) In any case, two years ago he started a new working band of sorts: the Improvisers Orchestra, a typically noneasy proposal. It draws on a pool of about 60 musicians, of whom 20 to 30 perform in a given concert; there have been more than 50 concerts since it started. The orchestra now plays every fortnight, once a month at Shapeshifter, in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, and once a month at El Taller Latino Americano, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.