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Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It was cool in Bombay that July in 1985, or was it 1986? Somehow the year does not seem to matter quite as much as it did when the phenomenon first occurred. The other details, of course, I remember clear as day. Association PC were tearing it up on stage at the fabled arena of the historic (for India at that time) Jazz Yatra an international jazz festival hosted by Jazz India since 1978. The Max Mueller Bhavan was responsible ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two
by Henry Smith
Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two ESP Disk 2008
Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry has long been a somewhat enigmatic figure. His well known beginnings with saxophonist Ornette Coleman soon gave way to Cherry's increasing interest in world music, where he would become an important conduit between jazz and “world music" through his own multinational take on improvisatory musical forms. The second in a series of recordings culled from ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 - Vol. 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il periodo a cavallo tra il 1965 il 1966 è certamente un momento tra i più significativi nella carriera di Don Cherry. Il baricentro della sua vita si è spostato prepotentemente in Europa, ma alla vigilia di Natale del 1965 è nei classici studi di Rudy van Gelder che il trombettista registra il primo capolvaoro a proprio nome, Complete Communion: c'è con lui il sassofonista argentino Gato Barbieri, ma la ritmica [da urlo!] composta da Henry Grimes e Ed Blackwell ...
Continue ReadingAlbert Ayler - Don Cherry - John Tchicai - Roswell Rudd - Gary Peacock - Sunny Murray: New York Eye and Ear Control
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi non conosce questa storica registrazione effettuata a New York nel loft del poeta Paul Haines il 17 luglio 1964, non si faccia fuorviare dal primo pezzo. La trama errabonda di Don Cherry in “Don’s Dawn” prelude forse alla dimensione visionaria di questo disco ma non ne è un paradigma. La ristampa di New York Eye and Ear Control ripropone esattamente l’elle-pi originale, senza nessun intervento correttivo o nuove parti. Si tratta della colonna sonora dell’omonimo film di Michael Snow, ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two
by Jerry D'Souza
Don Cherry was an enigma. In the early days of his career the trumpeter was part of the scene that took jazz through several changes. He did this playing with Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane where the music was transformed into something electrifying. But he also did it with Gato Barbieri, Nana Vasconcelos and Okay Temiz, among others, where his music absorbed different world strains. All of it comprises an interesting body of work that showed not only Cherry's strengths ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry Quintet: Live at Cafe Monmartre 1966
by Jeff Stockton
Don Cherry's career was unavoidably defined by his spot in the classic Ornette Coleman quartet of the late 1950s and early 1960s. When that group had gone as far as it could go, Cherry went on to bring the same sense of improvisational freedom to a brief stint with Sonny Rollins on Our Man in Jazz (RCA, 1962) and meet his free jazz match in a quartet with Albert Ayler on Vibrations (Freedom, 1966). Later, Cherry's omnivorous musical personality would ...
Continue ReadingDon Cherry: Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966
by Clifford Allen
Don Cherry Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966 ESP Disk (1966) 2007
A little over a year after trumpeter/composer Don Cherry debuted his European quintet in Rome and Paris, resulting in a brief return to New York and the beginning of a short-lived Blue Note recording contract, he reconvened his multi-national ensemble for a tour resulting in this Copenhagen concert, recorded live at the famed Jazzhus Montmartre.
The composition of the group is essentially the ...
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