Don Cherry - s/d

^ this is my blurb, in case it wasn't clear. an ILM exclusive!

here's a profile of don i found in an old issue of DOWNBEAT (oct. 1975):

https://i.imgur.com/iiuPDmN.png

https://i.imgur.com/GRrduJx.png
https://i.imgur.com/AjCQN7K.png

Thanks to the death of Swedish saxophonist Bernt Rosengren, who worked a lot with Cherry in the early 70s, I've been revisiting Eternal Rhythm today and checking out two other albums I wasn't that familiar with, Brotherhood Suite (recordings from 1968-74, released in 1997) and The Summer House Sessions (recordings from 1972-74, released in 2021).

RIP Bernt!

i have always intended to track down a copy of BROTHERHOOD SUITE! will report back.

that article is awesome, thank you for sharing it ...

It doesn't look like Don ever recorded with the Mellotron that he wanted, although Eagle-Eye used a Chamberlin once.

The mention of heroin in that article, as a youthful "phase" outgrown after a few years, reminds me of something I read, probably in one of the books about Ornette Coleman. It said something about how Ornette despaired of Don Cherry ever escaping from addiction in the last decades of his life. I haven't read anywhere else of his addiction being an ongoing struggle or problem, though, so I wonder where the truth lies.

In one of her memoirs Viv Albertine talks about touring with Don Cherry in the 1970s and upsetting him by saying "I hate junkies", not knowing that Cherry was himself an addict (Cherry apparently replied, "I hate hate"). So I certainly think his addiction was more than a youthful phase, sadly.

this right here's the stuff, featuring the cherry/dyani/temiz line-up:

https://www.strandedrecords.com/cdn/shop/files/don-cherry-trio-the-ortf-recordings-paris-1971-lp_1024x1024.jpg
Don Cherry Trio - The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971 LP

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/newsletter/products/don-cherry-trio-the-ortf-recordings-paris-1971-lp

don cherry at sandy bull's wedding

https://i.imgur.com/yDj15NG.png

In one of her memoirs Viv Albertine talks about touring with Don Cherry in the 1970s…

Slight derail: with the first memoir I really liked or admired who I thought she was, the second memoir I cooled on that considerably.

nice roundup from last year over at the free jazz blog, focusing on don cherry reissues and related material:

https://www.freejazzblog.org/2023/09/don-cherry-archives-tributes-and-re.html