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Infobox musical artist| name = Don Cherry| image = DonCherry.jpg| caption = Don Cherry, Münster , 1987| image_size = 250| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Donald Eugene Cherry| alias =| birth_date = birth date|1936|11|18|mf=y| death_date = death date and age|1995|10|19|1936|11|18|mf=y| origin = Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , United States|USA | instrument = Cornet , pocket trumpet , piano | genre = Jazz , free jazz , world fusion music | occupation =| years_active =| label =| associated_acts = Codona , Ornette Coleman , Paul Bley , Sonny Rollins , Naná Vasconcelos | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 & ndash; October 19, 1995) was an innovative African-American jazz cornet ist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman . He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.

Biography


Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , and raised in Los Angeles, California . After learning various brass instruments in high school, by the early 1950s he was playing with jazz musicians in Los Angeles, sometimes acting as pianist in Art Farmer 's group.cite book | last=Jost|first=Ekkehard | title=Studies in Jazz Research 4: Free Jazz | publisher=Universal Edition | year=1974|page=134 He also toured with saxophonist James Clay (musician)|James Clay .cite book | author=Litweiler, John | title=The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 | publisher=Da Capo | year=1984|isbn=0-306-80377-1|page=45

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman , first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records . During this period, "his lines ... gathered much of their freedom of motion from the free harmonic structures."cite book | author=Litweiler, John | title=The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 | publisher=Da Capo | year=1984|isbn=0-306-80377-1|page=289

Cherry co-led the avant-garde session which saw John Coltrane replacing Coleman in the Quartet, recorded and toured with Sonny Rollins , was a member of the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp and John Tchicai , and recorded and toured with both Albert Ayler and George Russell (composer)|George Russell . His first recording as a leader was Complete Communion for Blue Note Records in 1965. The band included Coleman's drummer Ed Blackwell as well as saxophonist Gato Barbieri , whom he had met while touring Europe with Ayler.

After leaving Coleman, Don Cherry eschewed the trend towards funk/fusion and continued to play sparse jazz, often in small groups and duets (many with ex-Coleman drummer Ed Blackwell ) during a long sojourn in Scandinavia and other locations.

He later appeared on Coleman's 1971 LP Science Fiction , and from 1976 to 1987 reunited with Coleman alumni Dewey Redman , Charlie Haden , and Blackwell in the band Old And New Dreams ,allmusic.com article on Old and New Dreams, recording four albums with them, two for ECM (record label)|ECM and two for Black Saint , where his "subtlety of rhythmic expansion and contraction" was noted.Litweiler, p290

In the 1970s he ventured into the developing genre of world fusion music . Cherry incorporated influences of Middle East ern, traditional Africa n, and India n music into his playing. He studied Indian music with Vasant Rai in the early seventies. From 1978 to 1982, he recorded three albums for ECM with "world jazz" group Codona , consisting of Cherry, percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and sitar and tabla player Collin Walcott .cite web|publisher=The Scotsman|title =Key figure in world jazz | url = http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3? edit=920558579 | accessdate = 2008-10-08

Cherry also collaborated with classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki on the 1971 album "Actions."
In 1973, he co-composed the score for Alejandro Jodorowsky 's film The Holy Mountain (1973 film)|The Holy Mountain together with Ronald Frangipane and Jodorowsky.

During the 1980s, he recorded again with the original Ornette Coleman Quartet on In All Languages , as well as recording El Corazon , a duet album with Ed Blackwell.

Other playing opportunities in his career came with Carla Bley 's Escalator Over The Hill project, and recordings with Lou Reed , Ian Dury , Rip Rig + Panic and Sun Ra .

In 1994, Cherry appeared on the Red Hot Organization 's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool , on a track titled "Apprehension" alongside The Watts Prophets .cite web|url= http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Moments-Red-Hot-Cool/dp/B0000083QR/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8& qid=1292048338& sr=8-1 |title=Stolen Moments: Red Hot & Cool: Various Artists: Music |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-28 The album, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in African American society was named "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine .

Don Cherry was 58 when he died in Málaga , Spain , in 1995 due to liver failure caused by hepatitis . http://www.nndb.com/people/989/000029902/ Don Cherry

His stepdaughters Neneh Cherry and Titiyo and his sons David Cherry (musician)|David Cherry and Eagle-Eye Cherry are also musicians.

Cherry was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2011.

Instrument


Don Cherry was closely associated with both the cornet and pocket trumpet .cite web| accessdate = 2008-05-21|title=Pocket Players|url = http://www.pocketcornets.com/html/pocket_players.html The pocket trumpet helped Cherry produce his distinct sound as well as allowing him to "smear" notes more easily. He often spoke about changing horns and mouthpiece sizes to constantly keep him in unfamiliar territory when playing and aiding in the avoidance of cliches.Citation needed|date=February 2010 Even though he is mostly associated with the pocket trumpet, the majority of his recordings are on the standard cornet. He has no known recordings on the standard trumpet.

After returning from a musical/cultural journey through Africa, Cherry often played a stringed instrument with a gourd body called a doussn'gouni. He also collected a variety of other African instruments on his journey, which he mastered and often played in performances and recordings.

He also performed as a percussionist and pianist, often playing the cornet with his right hand while playing the piano with the left.Citation needed|date=February 2010

Discography


As leader


  • 1961: The Avant-Garde (album)|The Avant-Garde (Atlantic) with John Coltrane )

  • 1965: Togetherness (Don Cherry album)|Togetherness (Durium)

  • 1965: Complete Communion (Blue Note)

  • 1966: Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note)

  • 1966: Where Is Brooklyn? (Blue Note)

  • 1966: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 (ESP-disk)

  • 1968: Eternal Rhythm (MPS)

  • 1969: Mu (album)|Mu (BYG) with Ed Blackwell

  • 1969: Live in Ankara (Sonet)

  • 1970: Human Music (Flying Dutchman) with Jon Appleton

  • 1971: Orient (album)|Orient (BYG)

  • 1971: Blue Lake (album)|Blue Lake (BYG)

  • 1972: Organic Music Society (Caprice)

  • 1973: Relativity Suite with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA)

  • 1973: Eternal Now (Sonet)

  • 1975: Brown Rice (album)|Brown Rice (Horizon)

  • 1976: Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)|Hear & Now (Atlantic)

  • 1982: El Corazón (album)|El Corazón (ECM) with Ed Blackwell

  • 1985: Home Boy (album)|Home Boy (Barclay)

  • 1988: Multikuti (album)|Multikuti (A& M)

  • 1988: Art Deco (album)|Art Deco (A& M)

  • 1993: Dona Nostra (ECM)


  • With Old and New Dreams
  • Old and New Dreams (Black Saint album)|Old and New Dreams (Black Saint, 1976)

  • Old and New Dreams (ECM album)|Old and New Dreams (ECM, 1979)

  • Playing (album)|Playing (ECM, 1980)

  • A Tribute to Blackwell (Black Saint, 1987)

  • With Codona
  • Codona (album)|Codona (ECM, 1979)

  • Codona 2 (ECM, 1981)

  • Codona 3 (ECM, 1983)


  • As sideman


    With Ornette Coleman
  • Something Else!!!! (Contemporary, 1958)

  • Tomorrow Is the Question! (Contemorary, 1959)

  • The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959)

  • Change of the Century (Atlantic, 1960)

  • Twins (Ornette Coleman album)|Twins (Atlantic, 1959-60 1971)

  • The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1959-61 1970)

  • To Whom Who Keeps a Record (Atlantic, 1959-60 1975)

  • This Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)|This is our Music (Atlantic, 1960)

  • Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1960)

  • Ornette! (Atlantic, 1961)

  • Ornette on Tenor (Atlantic, 1961)

  • Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)|Crisis (Impulse!, 1969)

  • Science Fiction (Ornette Coleman album)|Science Fiction (Columbia, 1971)

  • Broken Shadows (Columbia, 1971 1982)

  • In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams, 1987)


  • With the New York Contemporary Five
  • Consequences (New York Contemporary Five album)|Consequences ( Fontana Records|Fontana , 1963)

  • Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five|New York Contemporary Five Vol. 1 ( Sonet Records|Sonet , 1963)

  • Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five|New York Contemporary Five Vol. 2 ( Sonet Records|Sonet , 1963)

  • Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five ( Savoy Records|Savoy , 1964)


  • With Albert Ayler
  • The Hilversum Session (1964)

  • Vibrations (1964) Freedom Records

  • New York Eye and Ear Control (1965)


  • With Charlie Haden
  • Liberation Music Orchestra (album)|Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)

  • The Ballad of the Fallen (1986)

  • The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (Verve, 1989 1994)


  • With Sun Ra
  • Hiroshima (1983)

  • Stars That Shine Darkly (1983)

  • Purple Night (1990)

  • Somewhere Else (1993)


  • With Others
  • Steve Lacy - Evidence (Steve Lacy album)|Evidence (1962)

  • Sonny Rollins - Our Man in Jazz (1962)

  • George Russell (composer)|George Russell - George Russell Sextet at Beethoven Hall (1965)

  • Carla Bley - Escalator over the Hill (JCOA, 1971)

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky and Ronald Frangipane - " The Holy Mountain (1973 film)|The Holy Mountain Original Soundtrack" (1973)

  • Steve Hillage - " L (Steve Hillage album)|L " (1976)

  • Collin Walcott - Grazing Dreams (ECM, 1977)

  • Latif Khan - Music/Sangam (1978)

  • Johnny Dyani - Song For Biko (1978)

  • Lou Reed - The Bells (album)|The Bells (1979)

  • Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer (ECM, 1981)

  • Rip Rig + Panic - I am Cold (1982)

  • Bengt Berger Bitter Funeral Beer Band - Live In Frankfurt (1982)

  • Dag Vag - Almanacka (1983)

  • Frank Lowe - Decision in Paradise (1984)

  • Jai Uttal - Footprints (1990)

  • Ed Blackwell Project - Vol. 2: "What It Be Like? " (one track)


  • References


    Reflist

    External links


    Commons category|Don Cherry (jazz)
  • http://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2003/nov/interview_tessa_pollitt.html The Slits' memoirs of Don Cherry

  • http://www.eagle-eye-cherry.com/doncherrydisco.html Discography at http://www.eagle-eye-cherry.com/ eagle-eye-cherry.com

  • http://cd-v.net/jazz/discography/cherry_d.html Discography

  • http://www.jazzinstitut.de/Jazzindex/index-cherry-don.htm Don Cherry biography (in German and English) and bibliography (in English)


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