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Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn?

Read "Where Is Brooklyn?" reviewed by Ollie Bivens


With the reissue of Where Is Brooklyn?, Blue Note completes a trilogy of Don Cherry releases (also including Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers) which up to now had only been available on CD in a limited edition Mosaic box set. Cherry initially came into wide prominence in jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's landmark ...

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Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisers

Read "Symphony for Improvisers" reviewed by Ollie Bivens


Exploding on the jazz scene in the late '50s as a member of Ornette Coleman's pioneering band, Don Cherry left the Coleman aggregation in '65 to pursue a solo career. This, his fifth date as a leader and his second album on Blue Note, was a continuation of the free jazz sonic explorations that made the ...

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Symphony for Improvisers

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Symphony for Improvisers: Symphony for Improvisers/Nu Creative Love/Wha; Manhattan Cry: Manhattan Cry/Lunatic/Sparkle Plenty/Om Nu.

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Symphony for Improvisors

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Symphony for Improvisers: Symphony for Improvisers/Nu Creative Love/Wha; Manhattan Cry: Manhattan Cry/Lunatic/Sparkle Plenty/Om Nu.

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Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Symphony For Improvisors (suite): Symphony For Improvisers; Nu Creative Love; What

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The Humus of Don Cherry

Read "The  Humus of Don Cherry" reviewed by Clifford Allen


“If we're going to speak about words, we could talk about a word like 'aum.' Because you don't say the word 'aum,' you sing it. And you have to sing it where you use the 'a' as 'ah,' which is the throat. Then you're singing, sustaining the tone 'ah.' Then you go to the 'u,' and ...

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Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisors

Read "Symphony for Improvisors" reviewed by Ty Cumbie


It is gratifying to read A.B. Spelling's original liner notes for Don Cherry's 1966 recording Symphony for Improvisers, the first sentence of which begins “The New Music is no longer new and goes on to point out the developments over the preceding ten years. Free jazz is still a powerful draw for musicians and still inspires ...

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Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors

Read "Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors" reviewed by Renato Wardle


Don Cherry Symphony For Improvisers Blue Note 2005 (1966) By September of 1966, the so-called “free jazz" movement was in full swing. It had been nearly six years since Ornette Coleman's highly controversial landmark residency at the Five Spot. Cecil Taylor had recently been pushing the limits of ...

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Orient

Label: BYG-Fruit Tree
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Orient 2. Eagle Eye 3. Togetherness

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Movement Incorporated

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2003


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