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WEWANTSOUNDS: A Forgotten Don Cherry and Other Gems
by Enrico Bettinello
A forgotten gem from the extensive and multi-colored discography of Don Cherry is available again, courtesy of the French label WEWANTSOUNDS [yes, their name is uppercase only!]. Home Boy, Sister Out, produced by Ramuntcho Matta, was originally released in 1985 on Barclay Records. It was distributed in France and Germany only and was never reissued until now. Funky and fourth-world tinged, with strong influences from the new wave scene of those years, this amazing record reflects not only ...
Continue ReadingThe Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Got A Mind to Give Up Living: Live 1966
by Doug Collette
Real Gone Music's release of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's Live 1966 is a godsend for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it reminds, if that's indeed necessary, of what a vital influence on contemporary blues was (and is) this sextet. Forget for a moment the profundity of an integrated group of musicians bonded together at the time of civil rights upheaval in the United States--that's for sociologists. Better instead to focus instead ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Live in Stockholm
by Florence Wetzel
Trumpeter and world-music pioneer Don Cherry had a very special relationship with Sweden, a place he called home for twenty years. And Sweden had a special relationship with Cherry: the country and its musicians recognized the master in their midst, and in 1972 the state-subsidized record company Caprice put out the double album Organic Music Society (which they reissued in 2012). Now with Live in Stockholm, Caprice has gone into its vaults and pulled out three stunning long-form songs from ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Organic Music Society
by Glenn Astarita
Reissued in analog splendor on vinyl, from the original 1972 release, free jazz trumpeter and saxophonist Ornette Coleman sideman Don Cherry renders an early world-music vibe, recorded in Sweden. These days, inferences to “organic" allude to the green movement which has become quite trendy in scope; however, in the hippie culture, organic was often the buzzword for drugs and was frequently cited within the psychedelic vernacular. Here, Cherry and his large ensemble intertwine the east-meets-west vibe for a set that ...
Continue ReadingOrganic Music Society
by John Eyles
By the early 1970s, trumpeter Don Cherry had moved a long way--geographically and musically--from the music that had earned him a reputation as one of free jazz's great innovators. Resident in Sweden, he had embarked on a pioneering exploration of world fusion music, incorporating a range of influences, notably African, Native-American, Indian and Middle Eastern. During this period, he still retained some links with his roots; in 1971 he was part of the ensemble that recorded Science Fiction with saxophonist ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Copenhagen 1963 & Hilversum 1966
by AAJ Italy Staff
Diciamo subito che quanto contenuto in questo CD risulta interamente inedito: per metà si rifà a un'esibizione dei New York Contemporary Five alla Radiohusets Koncertstal di Copenhagen il 27 ottobre 1963, per l'altra metà recupera un live di due anni e mezzo dopo (9 maggio '66) in quel di Hilversum (Paesi Bassi), protagonista il quintetto cherryano. Già questi pochi dati ci fanno capire (malgrado una presa di suono magari non immacolata) l'importanza di quest'ora di musica. Al tempo delle registrazioni ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Hear And Now
by Chris May
That multi-instrumentalist and world jazz pioneer Don Cherry was able to adopt such a beatific countenance for the cover shot of Hear And Now says much for the power of yoga, given the horrors that follow. The disc has now been reissued as part of Warner Jazz's Atlantic Masters series. But non-yogis should heed this warning: if you only acquire one Don Cherry album in your life, don't acquire this one.
Recorded in December 1976, Hear And Now ...
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