Don Cherry - s/d

it's literally a vinyl rip of the 2xLP

From a recent Rolling Reissues post, pasted from Record Store Day list:
PENDERECKI/DON CHERRY & THE NEW ETERNAL RHYTHM
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DON CHERRY
Cherry Jam

For more info, check this list and click on artists/titles:
https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9003

yes !

i pre-ordered my copy from soundohm, who still have copies in stock:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/actions-lp

From Sounds of the Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store---retitled, with new cover:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/WExVVUt1TXJib0xzamI4SDA3aTJ2QT09/tibet-1981-don-cherry.jpg

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1. Gamla Stan - The Old Town By Night
2. Love Train
3. Bass Figure For Ballatune
4. Moving Pictures For The Ear
5. Tibet
Originally released in 1974 as Eternal Now (Sonet SNTF 653) with different sleeve artwork. Deep world rhythms and music from the don.

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

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

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1. Music, Wisdom, Love
2. 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.

All the others they list have orig titles and covers, looks like.

"universal silence" now available on CD:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/universal-silence

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

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

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.jpg
https://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.

https://blankforms.org/publications/new-and-upcoming/

whoa

Niiiice. I need to hear last year's Om Shanti Om as well.

it's incredible! and free on youtube iirc

ja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0

cool! Om Shanti Om is 10/10.

this...was not the don cherry i was thinking of

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 Cherry

Sunday, March 7th, 2021
9:00 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.

somebody Audio Hijack that shit plz

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 1
Track 101. Allah-o-Akbar/Waya-wa-Egoli/Blues For America/Kalahari 21:35
Track 102. Ntsikana’s Bell/Good News (false start)/Don (flute solo) 9:53
Track 103. Good News/Don (trumpet solo)/Little Boy 7:32
Track 104. African Sun 5:51
Track 105. The Stride/The Pilgrim, part 1 27:55
73 mins

Disc 2
Track 201. O Berimbau (Nana’s solo) 14:16
Track 202. The Pilgrim, part 2/unknown/Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro 19:04
Track 203. Cherry/unknown/Waya-wa-Egoli 23:52
Track 204. unknown/Blues For America 10:46
Track 205. Cherry (incomplete) 2:07
71 mins

Lineup:
Don Cherry - trumpet and more
Dollar Brand - piano
Nana Vasconcelos - percussion
Johnny 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

thank you so much

Yeah, listened to some of that last night; it's really good.

I don't really know much about jazz but I heard Om Shanti Om and I love it. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar albums?

There's a rich world of stuff that inhabits a similar universe to this period of Cherry's life. There will be others on here with a more in-depth knowledge, but I'd go for Cherry's Organic Music Society album (any of their albums, really) the archival stuff he did with Terry Riley and Thembi by Pharoah Sanders. Then you're onto Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi collective and you're away...

https://www.discogs.com/Don-Cherry-Organic-Music-Society/master/199510
https://www.discogs.com/Terry-Riley-Don-Cherry-Karl-Berger-K%C3%B6ln-February-23-1975/release/8692739
https://www.discogs.com/Pharoah-Sanders-Thembi/release/932779

Eternal Rhythm

Thanks folks! That Terry Riley and Don Cherry one is my favourite of those

if you haven't already there's also the complete discography of alice coltrane. 70s stuff is more "jazz" if that matters

I have heard some Alice Coltrane, I like her less jazzy material the best

you might also like pharoah sanders (try Pharoah 1977) or the Codona Albums that Cherry recorded with Colin Walcott and Nana Vasconcelos

Malinye is my favourite track by them (off '2')

anyway i am no expert

Yes to the Codona lps, my faves are 1 and 3.
Of course, Brown Rice
Also: https://www.discogs.com/Don-Cherry-Latif-Khan-Music-Sangam/release/1670148

the Bengt Berger album Bitter Funeral Beer w/ Don Cherry is a essential, too

YES

Good calls! Those Codona albums are my fave. I'm basically looking for jazz that's actually more world music than actual jazz.

(I don't like the term 'world music' but can't think of a better one, maybe fourth world?)

I really liked the first track on Pharaoh 1977

If you know Codona, then you may already know Oregon? I'm only know their debut album Music of Another Present Era, but it seems to fit your description.

I'd suggest checking out Sanders' albums Village of the Pharoahs and Wisdom through Music too.

Other ideas: The Art Ensemble of Chicago's Bap-Tizum and Phil Cohran's On the Beach

This might sound weird, but coming at Om Shanti Om from another angle: Baden Powell & Vinícius De Moraes Os Afro Sambas and this compilation: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/jamb-e-os-m-ticos-sons-da-amaz-nia/

I'm basically looking for jazz that's actually more world music than actual jazz.

It's a different soundworld insofar as it specifically draws upon Middle Eastern folk music, but you may also enjoy Anouar Brahem. Barzakh and Astrakan Café are very much worth everyone's time.

In the appendix to his jazz book But Beautiful, Geoff Dyer identifies this sub-genre as one of the most promising routes for jazz to take, and he mentions numerous records that could qualify in his discography.

I'm basically looking for jazz that's actually more world music than actual jazz.

Some late 60s Art Ensemble of Chicago stuff might do it for you, like People in Sorrow and Reese and the Smooth Ones. Also try Sunny Murray's Homage to Africa.

Arooj Aftab

Listening to James Brandon Lewis's The Jesup Wagon before reading unperson's Stereogum review,(which is here: https://www.stereogum.com/2148394/the-month-in-jazz-may-2021/columns/ugly-beauty/), I was thinking, as he did, of Cherry-Coleman re the Red Lily Quartet's interactivity: the cornet/sax conversations there reminding me of these, generating a track that's been playing my head for quite a while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2n6e0FMWUE

Thanks for all the recommendations folks! I've only just got round to listening to all of these

So, I finally thought of looking for ESP-Disk on bandcamp, and yep they've got a big ol' page of releases from the the past 50-60s years, incl. three linked sep volumes of DC's Live at Cafe Montmarte, from 1966---think I might start w Vol. 3, based on what it says here:

Live At Café Montmartre, Vol. 3
by Don Cherry

1.Complete Communion 26:10

2.Remembrance 24:45

After he left Ornette Coleman's quartet, trumpeter Don Cherry worked with a variety of collaborators and traveled more widely. He met Leandro "Gato" Barbieri in Italy years before the Argentinian saxophonist became a superstar; back then he was still heavily influenced by Albert Ayler. Cherry and Barbieri quickly bonded and began working together, with Cherry's Blue Note album Complete Communion, recorded with Barbieri (using a different rhythm section) on Christmas Eve of 1965, their first studio collaboration. They worked together in Europe so often that they had a regular quintet with German vibraphonist Karl Berger, French bassist Jean Francois Jenny Clark, and Italian drummer Aldo Romano. Clark, however, could not make the band's month-long residency at Copenhagen's most famous jazz club, so young American bassist Cameron Brown was called to replace him -- but he's not the bassist here. These performances were recorded for radio broadcast, and Danish radio rules said at least one native had to be in the band. Thus Bo Steif slid into the group for these recordings -- and stayed after Brown's musical commitments took him elsewhere.
All three volumes of ESP-Disk's series of concert recordings from this group's 1966 feature performances of Cherry's suite Complete Communion from the album of the same name, none more thoroughly than this one (actually the first concert by this group), because "Remembrance" is actually the closing movement of the suite on the Blue Note album. Thematically, they range much more widely than the studio recording, making this volume an especially interesting insight into Cherry's approach.

Personnel:
Don Cherry: trumpet
Gato Barbieri: tenor saxophone
Karl Berger: vibraphone
Bo Steif: bass
Aldo Romano: drums

Recorded on March 3rd, 1966
https://doncherry.bandcamp.com/

Currently on a bit of Steve Lacy kick and the other day I was listening to 'Evidence' (1961) [Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Carl Brown, Billy Higgins] - a selection of Monk and Duke tunes - reading around I didn't realise they were tight and it was Don that really introduced Lacy to a more improv/free way of playing:

Cherry's arrival in New York with Ornette in 1959 bowled [Steve Lacy] over.

"To me, he was the vanguard of the vanguard - the freest edge of the free thing they had going then. We got to be fast friends and sort of brothers, and we spent a lot of time playing together in my house in New York.

"He'd say 'Well - let's play', and I'd say 'OK - what do you want to play?' - and he'd say, 'No, let's just play'. This was revolutionary to me at the time because I was into Monk tunes, and thought you had to have a tune, a structure and chord changes, the whole thing. He didn't have any problem that way. He'd just play, and when he played it was really alive.

"This started me thinking a lot, and it took me over five years before I reached that point myself, and a lot of hard work and struggle to break the shackles. His way of going into the beyond and just taking off - to not worry about where you were coming from, but just to go - I wanted to be able to do that myself. It had something to do with my own concepts of life and death and music."

I can only see a couple more recordings with the two of them together - the recently released 'New York Total Music Co Frankfurt 1968' [Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Kent Carter, Karl Berger, Jacques Thollot] and Masahiko Togashi's 'Bura Bura' (1986) [Masahiko Togashi, Dave Holland, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry]. Need to check both out.

Brian Case interview extract from 1979 btw

Thanks,I did not know about that! Always assumed that Lacy was always free. Reminds me of another one via the ESP-Disk bandcamp (if you've heard the original !967 release, and thought the sound was off, Bernard Stollman says here that he subnitted it for remastering in '92, whereupon the engineer observed that it was "out of phase," and corrected that--did Stollman not ever listen to it? Claimed Lacy's price for the master was "exorbitant," but maybe Stollman didn't actually pay enough to listen, or maybe he couldn't tell the diff)

"Broken into two thematic extrapolations, the work functions in a similar manner as Don Cherry's Complete Communion (Blue Note, 1965) effort from a year earlier..."(Henry Smith, All Abot Jazz)
eleased January 2, 1967

Enrico Rava: trumpet
Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone
Johnny Dyani: bass
Louis T. Moholo: drums

Recorded in concert, October 8, 1966 at Institute di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.