Mu, First and Second Parts - my introduction to his work. beautiful duos between Cherry and Ed Blackwell. cherry plays everything from his famed pocket trumpet to piano, voice and tons of flutes from around the world. to play a full album of improv with this much melody and grace is amazing. and when he sings.... mmmmmm.
Brown Rice (aka Don Cherry) - great album with mellow fusiony, almost rare groove backing. (think Lonnie Liston Smith mixed with In a Silent Way & a tad more eastern flavor). lots of spooky whispery voices all over the place.
Hear & Now - the funk album. sounds like Eddie Hazel's playing distorto guitar on a few of the tracks. this is an album for the beat-heads and the pot heads alike. think Bobby Hutcherson, CTI records, Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, but without all the sappy almost new age or disco those guys got into.
Brotherhood Suite - one of the albums he recorded in Stockholm with the Bernt Rosengren group. tons of high-energy, free playing. in the middle of all this craziness, is "In A Geodetic Dome," a beautiful, meditative eastern sounding solo piece on trumpet. sounds almost like Sketches of Spain if all you heard was Miles. you can hear a baby crying in the background. the reason i keep this cd - not that the rest isn't good, but this is great - gives me chills when i listen to it.
Eternal Rhythm - all you Sonny Sharrock fans, he's on here too. this is a way out album, also played with the Bernt Rosengren group. Cherry plays a lot of instruments on this one, including the Gamelan(?!). there are nine players on this one, so if you're into that whole crazy, Euro free blowing sessions, search this one out.
Home Boy - this album, from 85, could be called his pop-crossover album?? many of you should know the song "I Walk" from the first Disco not Disco album. the whole album is along those lines. funky 80s disco-funk with stiff drum machines. every song has singing and there is very little trumpet playing on the whole thing. very song oriented. i think had i not already fallen in love with the "I Walk" song, i'd probably dismiss this album immediately, but i like it. very dated, but still nice.
CoDoNa, 1, 2 & 3 - Collin Walcott, Don Cherry and Nana Vasconcelos. before i discovered these albums, i thought i'd never listen to ECM. man was i wrong. in the past Cherry had hinted at his facination with other cultures' musics. he'd played tons of different instruments from around the world and used eastern scales, but here he pulls out all the stops, mixes and matches perfectly and the results are amazing. Walcott plays sitar, tabla, sanza and dulcimer while Vasconcelos plays all sorts of Brazilian percusion. their interplay is fantastic.
Charlie Haden's "Liberation Music Orchestra" & "The Ballad of the Fallen" - two very similar albums made 13 yrs apart. one on Impulse (70) and the other on ECM (83). both, arranged by Carla Bley, are orchestrated (with bits of free playing) jazz albums with Spanish Folk melodies as themes. they are both extremely beautiful and worth searching out.
Mandingo Griot Society - this is straight up west african music from 78. the band is led by Jali Foday Musa Suso playing the Kora which is a 21-string harp from Mali. the rest of the band is made up of americans all famous in their own right these days: joseph thomas, hamid drake (back when he was still calling himself Hank), and adam rudolph. there's not much trumpet on the album, but it's still cool for the completist.
Rip Rig & Panic "God" & "I am Cold" - the english post punk, jazzy funk group from the early 80s featured Don's daughter Neneh on vocals (and i believe Ari Up from the slits at one point also?). good shit.
i surprisingly don't own any Ornette that features Cherry? i'm sure there's gonna be lotsa love for the Complete Communion with Gato, but i don't own that either.
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Cherry's appearance on 'Escalator Over The Hill' is one of the real highlights of that alb.
Yeah, that 'Communion' reish is terrif; I also really like the 1988 'mainstream' alb 'Art Deco', which features a tenor player called James Clay, an underrecorded Texan contemporary of Ornette's, plus the classic rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins.
Has anybody heard that recentish BBC concert recording?
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― abeta, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
and i always had a feeling i wouldn't like Ornette. i have no idea why, just one of those prejudices you build up from stuff you read. i'm sure if i had some, i'd totally dig it. the only Ornette record i have is "Dancing in Your Head", one of his free-funk albums, which i love with all my heart.
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
thanks for these threads jason. plenty to check out.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
'brown rice' might be my don cherry OPO, and i'm a big fan. the blue note trilogy is fantastic (esp. "symphony for improvisers"), and yeah, i'll second the "escalator over the hill" nod.
'eternal now' hasn't been mentioned yet, so i'll throw it out. it's cherry and the swedes in smaller ensembles, with some piano work and wooden wind instruments. it's a strong step towards the less identifiably "jazz", more uniquely "don cherry" music.
― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
You do owe it to yourself to listen to him with Ornette. I have a special fondness for his work on the Complete Science Fiction Sessions, there's some fire on that shit.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
http://users.northroute.net/~rpepper/celebs/doncherry2.jpg
wait, he plays music too, you say? THIS i gotta hear!
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― steve duda, Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
the two sets are trios. one is cherry, his wife mocqui on tamboura (ouch) and bennik. the other is cherry, johnny diani and okay tamiz (don't ask, i don't know).
the pieces seem compositionally similar to the "eternal rhythm" and "w/ penderecki" albums but they lack the power of those big groups and also ramble on more. can you imagine mu pts. 1+2 played w/ the E.R.O. (i can't). it doesn't help that the sound uniformly sucks and the percussion is generally pretty flat.
the one bright spot is a 20 minute improv on the "si ta ra ma" vocal chant that's mostly unaccompanied cherry. well, there's a bongo, but damned if i register anything but cherry. sounds dubious, i know, though i love it love it love it.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 July 2003 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― rw, Monday, 17 May 2004 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
― rw, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the albums most similar to humus are "eternal rhythm" and "eternal now" because they feature large ensembles. "orient" is similar in aim but it has a much smaller group of players. because it is a live album though it has similar energy. "mu 1+2" are also similar but it's a duo, and a studio recording, so it's much more meditative and less kinetic than "humus".
"humus" is very similar to pharoah sanders late 60s and early 70s work: "tauhid", "izipho zam", "karma" and "summun bukmun umyun" are definite must-haves. they are more focused and polished than cherry's work but similar in the blend of eastern and western motifs, and the energy playing, and the wild percussion, etc. also check out early alice coltrane (ptah the el daoud, world galaxy, universal consciousness) and maybe late john coltrane (crescent might be a good starting point). possibly even clifford thornton or archie shepp in morocco or even the jazzactuel 3cd reissue sampler box, that may be a good start.
these are similar to "humus" in overall sound but not in the way "humus" uses several different forms over the course of a composition - free playing giving way to funky stuff giving way to an eastern section or a ragtime or whatever. if i remember correctly, that is unique to "humus" in cherry's recordings. so for that angle, maybe check out the early 70s work of the art ensemble of chicago, sun ra, and charlie haden (particularly the liberation music orchestra recording mentioned above).
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 June 2004 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 June 2004 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― rw, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 11 June 2004 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 June 2004 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 12 June 2004 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing him and his battered pocket trumpet really got me into Ornette and then Jazz in general.
― timberlog (timberlog), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mingeringmike.com/images/lps09_20.jpg
http://www.mingeringmike.com/images/lps03_20.jpg
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Another good'un not mentioned yet: Vibrations, possibly my favourite Albert Ayler record.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 2 July 2005 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
More?
― admrl, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I want that
― admrl, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://davecook.blog-city.com/don_cherry.htm
― jaxon, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^ terry riley / don cherry
I love you
― admrl, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― admrl, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw Don Cherry live, solo, some time in the second half of the 80s. I liked it but I don't remember much a this point, except that he played lots of different instruments and it was fairly laid back.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:23 (seven years ago) link
does anybody have the credits to the holy mountain soundtrack?
― the late great, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:27 (six years ago) link
I have it at home somewhere in the DVD box (I only have El Topo on my ipod)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:33 (six years ago) link
i listened to Brown Rice over the weekend and my almost-five-year-old daughter thought it was hilaaaaarious. "what is this guy doing?!"
― tylerw, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:33 (six years ago) link
Sorry if already mentioned, but leave us not forget Mr. C's input re The Bells and Between Thought and Expression. Also here (get it while you can):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GQQ6OelDo
and here (Wiki say DC co-wrote)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvkeqXFtiKw
― dow, Monday, 28 July 2014 22:42 (six years ago) link
Also, Neneh Cherry & The Thing's The Cherry Thing is a fave of recent years; think Don would have dug it.
― dow, Monday, 28 July 2014 22:45 (six years ago) link
lol
daughter otm also great album
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:02 (six years ago) link
Really enjoying the "See You in a Minute: Memories of Don Cherry" CD (2006)by Berger Knutsson Spering trio and guests including Nenah and Eagle-Eye on a couple vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9zTzbNwjo
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:02 (two years ago) link
Begnt Berger's Bitter Funeral Beer with Cherry has been in my heavy rotation this past year, really wonderful hybrid of Eurojazz and African traditional. The concert footage transcends the LOL 80s garments (or maybe it's enhanced by it) tho' Cherry himself cuts a sharp profile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALp9N_lS_b8
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:28 (two years ago) link
came here to post a track from the "bitter funeral beer" record ... yeah, it's good !
― budo jeru, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:48 (one year ago) link
can't believed i missed picking up a copy of this 2xLP
just classic classic cherry with the dollar brand / carlos ward line-up that's also on "the third world-underground" recorded only a week apart in nov. '72
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFRTZLyASg
"why don't you try brown rice?"
love to hear him sing
― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:41 (one year ago) link
Well, for one thing, it's that it's actually not my music, because it's a combination of different experiences, and different cultures, and different composers, that involves the music that we play together, or that I'm playing when I'm playing alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6U7gZ0np4
― budo jeru, Monday, 16 December 2019 01:39 (one year ago) link
linked to upthread but now long-gone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ox2IAo3g0Don Cherry & Terry Riley – Tambourinen Session, Copenhagen, 1970
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:53 (one year ago) link
i somehow only recently learned that Sandy Bull played with Don Cherry at various points. Where are the tapes!???
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:54 (one year ago) link
hmm i wonder if billy higgins was the link there
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:57 (one year ago) link
anyway, learning this just now ! very intriguing
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:58 (one year ago) link
here you can find william parker talking about playing with don cherry and sandy bull:
http://archive.soundamerican.org/sa_archive/sa14/sa14-the-interviews.html
sandy bull discussion comes in c. 7min
JC: How big was the group that he invited you to play with?WP: Well, we had Ed Blackwell, we had Billy Higgins, we had Frank Lowe [...] Sandy Bull was playing oud. So it was a big group. And I had been playing with Frank Lowe already [...] and this materializes as tapes of this concert now. Which I have somewhere, someone gave me a CD of it.
WP: Well, we had Ed Blackwell, we had Billy Higgins, we had Frank Lowe [...] Sandy Bull was playing oud. So it was a big group. And I had been playing with Frank Lowe already [...] and this materializes as tapes of this concert now. Which I have somewhere, someone gave me a CD of it.
somebody call william parker !!!
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:22 (one year ago) link
heyo!
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:39 (one year ago) link
William Parker: You see, Don could play with anybody. He could go to Turkey and play with the Turkish musicians. Go to Africa, go to Egypt, go to India. He could play with Lou Reed, he could play with Muddy Waters. And then you could say, "Oh wow, that's Don." He would never lose his identity no matter what kind of music he was playing, but he could always feel comfortable in playing any kind of music.[...]In Don's world, it was that everything is music. You know, the melody, the rhythm, the folk, the electronics, 'cause he's done stuff with electronic music. So he had no fear of any kind of music. Which shows you that it's not the style of music, and it's not the content of the music. It's the soul and spirit of the music that makes it work.
[...]
In Don's world, it was that everything is music. You know, the melody, the rhythm, the folk, the electronics, 'cause he's done stuff with electronic music. So he had no fear of any kind of music. Which shows you that it's not the style of music, and it's not the content of the music. It's the soul and spirit of the music that makes it work.
^ highly recommend listening to the whole interview
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:40 (one year ago) link
nice thanks ... seems like there's definitely a recording.
http://www.bb10k.com/PARKER.disc.html
June, 1975 / The Five Spot, New York City
—The Cherry Quintet was at the Five Spot from the 3rd through the 8th. No exact date on this, but it does not match 75.06.07.1. unknown title [33:17] (incomplete, cuts in at beginning, out at end)"Just heard snippet of ‘Butterfly Friend,’ one of my favorite songs..." —Steven Joerg
"Frank Lowe said it was Sandy Bull in an interview he did at WKCR-FM [during] a Don Cherry festival..." —Ras Moshe
"...I met Don Cherry. He invited me to play at the Five Spot with him in '75 for a week, my first gig at a major jazz club."—William Parker interview/article by Steve Holtje, WIRE #152 October 1996 p.24
Don Cherry (tp, el-p, voc), Frank Lowe (ts), Sandy Bull (g, oud?, perc?), William Parker (b), Roger Blank (dr){WP Archive CD-R; New York Magazine June 9, 1975 p.25; Steven Joerg 03.08.28; Ras Moshe 03.02.04}
― tylerw, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:44 (one year ago) link
wonder how one gets a hold of that ..
WP would have been around 23 at the time
― budo jeru, Monday, 27 January 2020 23:50 (one year ago) link
dang!
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Monday, 27 January 2020 23:54 (one year ago) link
“benny banana on trumpet, benny banana !”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQrKnnxsz0
(@3:31)
you just love to hear him sing
― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:18 (eleven months ago) link
this is a perfect song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-mrsRDTs-E
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:25 (eleven months ago) link
<3 moki & neneh
http://irenebrination.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55290e7c4883301bb08efba9097
more here:
In a Multi-Art World: ‘Moment - Moki Cherry’ @ Moderna Museet, Stockholm
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:19 (eleven months ago) link
^ not sure if this worked, sorry
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:28 (eleven months ago) link
posted this in the dollar brand thread, posting here for the cherryheads who might have missed it:
https://soundcloud.com/purediamond/dc-cw-db-berlin-72
"third world underground" lineup; same year, different city
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:05 (eight months ago) link
also here's that moki / neneh photo
https://i.imgur.com/JSgbGXe.jpg
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:06 (eight months ago) link
amazing pic!
is that berlin show the same as this one? https://www.discogs.com/Don-Cherry-Carlos-Ward-Dollar-Brand-Universal-Silence/release/13545963
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:15 (eight months ago) link
yes
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:25 (eight months ago) link
it's literally a vinyl rip of the 2xLP
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:26 (eight months ago) link
From a recent Rolling Reissues post, pasted from Record Store Day list:PENDERECKI/DON CHERRY & THE NEW ETERNAL RHYTHMActionsDON CHERRYCherry Jam
For more info, check this list and click on artists/titles:https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9003
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:12 (eight months ago) link
yes !
i pre-ordered my copy from soundohm, who still have copies in stock:
https://www.soundohm.com/product/actions-lp
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:15 (eight months ago) link
From Sounds of the Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store---retitled, with new cover:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/WExVVUt1TXJib0xzamI4SDA3aTJ2QT09/tibet-1981-don-cherry.jpg
New LP PICD3515£12.99In stockADD TO BAG1. Gamla Stan - The Old Town By Night2. Love Train3. Bass Figure For Ballatune4. Moving Pictures For The Ear5. TibetOriginally released in 1974 as Eternal Now (Sonet SNTF 653) with different sleeve artwork. Deep world rhythms and music from the don.
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:19 (eight months ago) link
that goes back to a US reissue from 1981 that altered the title / artwork. ETERNAL NOW is a 10000% better name and cover art:
https://img.discogs.com/1uDvymR3T8yOBQWJ3OSl-ehziEI=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-791728-1483632006-9779.mpo.jpg
between that and the recent reissue of BROWN RICE as DON CHERRY and without moki's original art, just smdh
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:22 (eight months ago) link
Oh yeah, that is better! But this might be more findable.They've got several others, got this one back in:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/Z1YyMS9iemJ4WVhKcDY2dXRSSGt0dz09/c6qyfg-waaun0hj.jpg
LP 18CACKLP£16.99In stockADD TO BAG1. Music, Wisdom, Love2. Music, Wisdom, Love (Film Edit With Poetry)Another essential release from Finders Keepers!
Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazz’s most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris soundtrack sessions known as ‘Music, Wisdom, Love’ have evaded collectors’ grasps and confused historians for exactly 50 years. Instigated in Paris in 1967 and filmed during Don’s downtime on a visit to the Chat qui Pêche nightclub in March 1967 (where he played with Karl Berger, Henri Texier and Jacques Thollot), the bulk of this cinematic portrait was filmed on the streets of Paris under the direction of creative all-rounders Jean-Noël Delamarre and Nathalie Perrey who, as their careers bloomed, would become pivotal figures in underground French cinema - straddling La Nouvelle Vague, adult entertainment and cinema fantastique in what can only be described as speedball cinema.
Available for the first time ever and licensed from producer and director Jean-Noel Delamarre himself.
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:24 (eight months ago) link
All the others they list have orig titles and covers, looks like.
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:27 (eight months ago) link
"universal silence" now available on CD:
https://www.soundohm.com/product/universal-silence
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:34 (eight months ago) link
the 1976 organic music society performance for italian television is now being made available on CD / vinyl and can be streamed here:
https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/om-shanti-om
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3387948865_16.jpg(cool cover art, too)
i'm still trying to work out if it's the same set that's been available on youtube, just re-arranged or differently-excerpted. either way the sound quality of this new release is much, much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3OLnQvl-g
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 17:23 (seven months ago) link
Thanks budo, and what a label!!!! Also they have the aforementioned Bitter Beer---all tracks streaming here:https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-frankfurt-82
― dow, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 23:26 (seven months ago) link
two new releases of previously-unreleased recordings coming this summer via blank forms, great artwork too:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0011/0588/7297/products/BF-024SummerHouseSessionscover_550x825.jpghttps://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0011/0588/7297/products/BF-023Chateauvalloncover_550x825.jpg
Avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They soon began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist activism, children’s education, and pan-ethnic expression “Organic Music.” We have a robust program dedicated to this woefully under-examined period of the couple’s visionary collaborative practice planned for this spring, including an art exhibition at our Clinton Hill space, a special issue of our anthology, two archival records, and—with luck—a performance program.In anticipation of this season-long series, we are now taking pre-orders for our Organic Music Societies anthology as well as two albums of newly unearthed music by Don Cherry.
We have a robust program dedicated to this woefully under-examined period of the couple’s visionary collaborative practice planned for this spring, including an art exhibition at our Clinton Hill space, a special issue of our anthology, two archival records, and—with luck—a performance program.
In anticipation of this season-long series, we are now taking pre-orders for our Organic Music Societies anthology as well as two albums of newly unearthed music by Don Cherry.
https://blankforms.org/publications/new-and-upcoming/
― budo jeru, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:45 (one month ago) link
whoa
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 22 January 2021 03:10 (one month ago) link
Niiiice. I need to hear last year's Om Shanti Om as well.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 January 2021 03:13 (one month ago) link
it's incredible! and free on youtube iirc
― budo jeru, Friday, 22 January 2021 03:29 (one month ago) link
ja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0
cool! Om Shanti Om is 10/10.
― stirmonster, Friday, 22 January 2021 04:08 (one month ago) link
this...was not the don cherry i was thinking of
― Punster McPunisher, Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:17 (one month ago) link
a one-off, daylong radio show via blank forms –– tune in sunday!
https://blankforms.org/events/the-great-trip-rare-and-unheard-music-from-don-cherry/
The Great Trip: Rare and Unheard Music from Don CherrySunday, March 7th, 20219:00 AM EST | 2:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM CETIn anticipation of the “Organic Music Societies” exhibition, Blank Forms will be presenting a daylong radio show dedicated to Don and Moki Cherry’s life in Sweden and beyond on Sunday, March 7th starting at 9 a.m. EST. Key recordings from the early ’60s through late ’80s, including rare and private music, will be diffused by hosts Lawrence Kumpf and Adrian Rew, as well as international guests Mats Gustafsson and Magnus Nygren. The show will additionally include live interviews with Neneh Cherry, Naima Karlsson, Famoudou Don Moye, and Bengt “Beche” Berger, as well as a performance by Christer Bothén. The program will be livestreamed exclusively, with no archive to follow, so tuning in is the only way to hear this material. A full schedule with more details is forthcoming.
Sunday, March 7th, 20219:00 AM EST | 2:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM CET
In anticipation of the “Organic Music Societies” exhibition, Blank Forms will be presenting a daylong radio show dedicated to Don and Moki Cherry’s life in Sweden and beyond on Sunday, March 7th starting at 9 a.m. EST. Key recordings from the early ’60s through late ’80s, including rare and private music, will be diffused by hosts Lawrence Kumpf and Adrian Rew, as well as international guests Mats Gustafsson and Magnus Nygren. The show will additionally include live interviews with Neneh Cherry, Naima Karlsson, Famoudou Don Moye, and Bengt “Beche” Berger, as well as a performance by Christer Bothén. The program will be livestreamed exclusively, with no archive to follow, so tuning in is the only way to hear this material. A full schedule with more details is forthcoming.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:12 (three days ago) link
somebody Audio Hijack that shit plz
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:40 (three days ago) link
From bigozine2's roio stash ---haven't had time to listen yet, but this lloks promising; get it while you can (gotta download it track by track)Disc 1Track 101. Allah-o-Akbar/Waya-wa-Egoli/Blues For America/Kalahari 21:35Track 102. Ntsikana’s Bell/Good News (false start)/Don (flute solo) 9:53Track 103. Good News/Don (trumpet solo)/Little Boy 7:32Track 104. African Sun 5:51Track 105. The Stride/The Pilgrim, part 1 27:5573 mins
Disc 2Track 201. O Berimbau (Nana’s solo) 14:16Track 202. The Pilgrim, part 2/unknown/Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro 19:04Track 203. Cherry/unknown/Waya-wa-Egoli 23:52Track 204. unknown/Blues For America 10:46Track 205. Cherry (incomplete) 2:0771 mins
Lineup:Don Cherry - trumpet and moreDollar Brand - pianoNana Vasconcelos - percussionJohnny Dyani - bass http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=4857&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=faa4c6474dec1ceddc5b428a1af0fbbd0d8a0efe-1614992030-0-AVPGvRvqJDdvQTM7C5fMDLLpAic4N7EyaOzSCu66EVvV2Y0Lqlzqu-lOI0hRLN6Vgab99YD_OilEoPanVhOpXjhJ7UAreQfKRogm4_MIsiARIWjKwv4frNt4k5zvw3jdfmYkbamzeFQNKnrSc0XsKNtR_lG_64a9KcikFM1C-u5WUhEBufmVJPjHe-yN6sj86X1hzd8WEtJELk5kTngCNbzhuf2xEm0xGvNuG8ZzDN5Ikon7seuTOm2pue4TNf6ROMM_uhDaM6JMenrU90Mw_s8WES7Kx58okIFOQta1Xoj33P384yvfyP5TWi9TStUqsb9-tdMo-qCP8Wo_hDPvyrA
― dow, Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:00 (four hours ago) link