Don Cherry - s/d

Seeing him and his battered pocket trumpet really got me into Ornette and then Jazz in general.

http://www.mingeringmike.com/images/lps09_20.jpg

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Another good'un not mentioned yet: Vibrations, possibly my favourite Albert Ayler record.

More?

i may have mentioned this on another Don Cherry thread (or a terry riley thread), but there's a tape of the two of them playing sometime in the mid-70s that is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. it's reallyreallyreally beautiful.

I want that

http://davecook.blog-city.com/don_cherry.htm

^ terry riley / don cherry

I love you

Is there anything more from that session?

cos it's fucking great.

I've been told to listen to rip rig & panic by a lot of people but haven't got round to it yet.

Have you heard the album he did with Jon Appleton?

No

is it like the terry riley thing?

Ooh, this has a good handful of things that I'd always felt trepidation about searching. I only own Brown Rice, Mu, CC and LibMus, and had always worried that his '80s stuff was gonna be butt (wasn't that when he was drying out?)

I haven't listened to it in a while: Cherry + electronics, late 60s I think, I must dig it out. You got to admire his willingness to tkae chances. I haven't heard that Terry Riley thing. (xp)

I Love Music!

anyone heard his album with Latif Khan?
http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=15787

they claim it's a companion piece to Brown Rice.

Hey Jaxon, thanks for the heads-up--just gave this a listen, and there's a great short track that I'll TOTD...

i wanna hear RELATIVITY SUITE

http://thebrewingluminous.blogspot.com/2007/04/don-cherry-relativity-suite.html

man, i feel like it's every other day I find out about some awesome sounding Don Cherry record. mentioned it elsewhere, but the old dreams new dreams recordings are incredible! another good one maybe not mentioned here is Blue Lake, early 70s live stuff. A lot of Don on piano. Then there's also a great Lou Reed bootleg from 1976 with Cherry sitting in. The guy got around!

http://savagesaints.blogspot.com/2009/01/krzysztof-penderecki-don-cherry-actions.html

HI!

Cherry & Latif Khan is terrific. I'm pretty sure Pharaoh's Dance posted it a while back.

http://pharaohs-dance.blogspot.com/search?q=don+cherry+latif+khan

http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2009/02/don-cherry-scandinavian-radio-sessions.html

including an outstanding 1970 session with Terry Riley, different than the one posted upthread

!!!!

i just got the reissue of that cherry/latif khan lp from aquarius. it's really really great.

That is a great one. No idea that it had been reissued!

yeah cd and lp available from aquarius now.

he is the reason i started learning trumpet.

Fascinating jax0n facts.

dudes i am still in the throes of a serious addiction here. ORGANIC MUSIC is on its way to me! also, look out for the slow-to-speak records 12" with two jams from the holy mountain soundtrack on wax for the first time!

learning trumpet lasted 6 months. :(

was just listening to "Brown Rice" in the car just now! such a nice album. "Browwwwwn riiiice!"

yeah Brown Rice is my favorite

LOL i just realized why CODONA is called CODONA duhr

It's easy to figure out if you see it written like it is above CoDoNa.

And the names of the bands members are right after, of course. ;)

Someone mentioned it upthread, but El Corazon w/ Blackwell is worth seeking out! Was listening this morning, and it is a wonderful record. Kind of a travelogue -- from America to Spain to Africa and elsewhere ...

haven't seen it mentioned, but Art Deco is really lovely, too

cool! I actually don't know much past the early 80s. Is that a good one to start with?

i think so. of his last few releases under his own name - i useda have multikulti and don't remember it; and dona nostra sort of bored me. wouldn't mind relistening to those, but i've always liked Art deco- there are a few Ornette tracks, and DC and James Clay really play well together

Hoping to check out Solar Myth. Not too far from where we're staying. Any Philly record store recommendations welcome!

I endowed a chair at Solar Myth under the Burning Ambulance name - look for it if you get there for a show...

Nice! Even if I don’t catch a show it looks like a cool place for a hang.

Hoping to check out Solar Myth. Not too far from where we're staying. Any Philly record store recommendations welcome!

There was a good one in Old City on N. 2nd Street with a good jazz selection but it may no longer exist

yah PRE is the best

Thanks for the tips! Not sure how much time I'll have but will see what I can do. Coming down from NYC in the morning as my better half is doing a performance lecture at UPenn in the afternoon, then we're off to DC for her show at Rhizome the following day.

Moki Cherry top of my list as I missed it when it was in the UK. Not sure if it's been mentioned upthread, but Neneh Cherry's memoir has a lot of really great stuff on Don and Moki, very moving.

Excited to get into this Don Cherry mix, ty . I've heard plenty that I'm so so on, but the 'global'/indigenous/folk stuff is so incredible. Like these tracks early on in this TTT mix: https://soundcloud.com/the-trilogy-tapes/ttt-nts-151121

Yeah, those are from the "Organic Music Theatre" release from Blank Forms a few years back, extremely fun music and pairs nicely with the "Organic Music Society" release

exciting news from Magnus Nygren

A week ago I signed a contract with Swedish Modernista to publish the Don cherry biography. I'm so happy! Finally it will be finished, hopefully by the end of this year. And – hopefully again – it will be out some time during 2027.

The live tracks with Jean Schwarz are crazy too, DC sounds great on the ngoni. Great mix!

Thanks!

Assuming you mean me but yeah for sure. I realized that when I made it almost five years ago (how is this possible?) I never really finished it, so I rounded it out with a few more tracks, should be a fun journey. Couldn't think of a better title so may change if one occurs to me

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YRzBWmw5qdhLBwLSgwW3K?si=0961284dc58f4a3c

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Wednesday, 18 February 2026 16:28 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is so good!

tysm! check the mixcloud version for something that flows a bit better and has some xtra morsels

Lewis Porter Substack piece w/ three unreleased trio recordings (Don, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell) from '61:

https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/don-cherry-grimes-and-blackwell-music

ha you subscribe too cattedrale? I always find him fascinating even when I’m not a huge fan of the artist he’s focusing on. I also helped him with some factual information about Freddie Webster.

I subscribe too, but most of the time his pieces are too obsessively detail-focused for me, almost Phil Schaap-level. "What brand of shoelaces did Charlie Parker buy the day before he recorded 'Lover Man'? There are three different accounts; we'll compare them all in today's newsletter." He helped with some deep archival stuff when I was writing my Cecil Taylor book, though, and is a generally good dude.

I do subscribe. I mostly don't have time to read what he sends, but of course my ears perked up at this one. He has something of the old guard bebop purist about him, it's kind of amusing. Just the way he framed the bit about DC's pocket trumpet ("Cherry’s solos are commonly faulted for being out of tune and lacking the power of a standard trumpet.") as if it was the received wisdom from the jazz oracle as opposed to a minority opinion among conservative listeners, thought it was telling.

He's one of the most inventive people to ever play the instrument and he's talking like it's a shame he didn't sound more like Fats Navarro or something