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The Humus of Don Cherry

by Clifford Allen
October 20, 2005

“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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Article: Album Review

Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisors

Read "Symphony for Improvisors" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie
October 15, 2005

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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Article: Extended Analysis

Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors

by Renato Wardle
August 23, 2005

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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Movement Incorporated

By Don Cherry

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2003

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Orient

By Don Cherry

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

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Don Cherry: Orient

by AAJ Staff
March 11, 2003

Don Cherry, who passed away in 1995 at age 59, was a world musician long before the term became fashionable. Two recent early '70s reissues - Orient and Blue Lake (both previously Japan-only releases), help to solidify Cherry as not only one of the greatest (pocket) trumpeters/cornetists that jazz has known, but also one of its ...

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