Results for "Cherokee"

Video

Cherokee

Featuring the music of Wynton Marsalis
Duration: 11:10
February 1, 2026

Up-tempo "Cherokee" has long served as a proving ground for jazzers who claim to have serious chops. In this rendition, soloists Wynton Marsalis, Walter Blanding Jr. and Véronica Swift show definitively how it’s done, each taking several choruses. Long lines of 16th notes, then sixteenth triplets, then squeals spew forth from Marsalis’s trumpet. Blanding (starting at 3:47) keeps up the pace while introducing fresh motifs, yet maintaining his gritty sound. Finally, Swift (at 5:37) resurrects the sound of classic vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O'Day, displaying robust air support, bell-tone vibrato, elastic time and blues-bending notes and some of the best scat vocalization in jazz today.

Song of the Day

Cherokee

March 29, 2025

Album: My Universe
By Maria Puga Lareo
Label: My Keter Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:32

Video

Cherokee

Featuring the music of James Moody (with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band)
Duration: 6:47
June 26, 2008

A performance from the 1968 Copenhagen Jazz Festival which features James Moody on flute on a version of "Cherokee".

Video

Cherokee

Featuring the music of Phil Woods
Duration: 5:25
January 31, 2007

Phil Woods and Jackie McLean duel on Cherokee, 1989 in Paris. A special guest shows up half way through!

Album

Cherokee

By Charlie Barnet

Label: Magneoton
Released: 1992

Album

Cherokee

By Egil Kapstad

Label: Four Leaf Records
Released: 1989