Don Cherry (musician)
Donald Eugene "Don" Cherry (* 18th November 1936 in Oklahoma City ; † 19th October 1995 in Málaga ) was an American free jazz - musicians and especially through his play on the pocket trumpet known. He also played flutes , the African harp Doussn 'Gouni , various percussion instruments ( percussion ), piano and even melodica and also emerged as a singer .
Live and act
Cherry was a member of the legendary quartet of Ornette Coleman (1957–1961, 1987). He then played with John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins before forming the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp and John Tchicai . After a guest performance in Albert Ayler's group , he formed his own quintet with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger and a European rhythm group. After taking singing lessons from Pandit Pran Nath (together with Terry Riley and La Monte Young ), Cherry was one of the great links between jazz and world music . After touring Europe with Johnny Dyani , Okay Temiz and Han Bennink , Swedish musicians and his wife Moki, he again formed groups with American colleagues in the mid-1970s, in particular Dewey Redman , Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell (the project Old and New Dreams ), later also with Peter Apfelbaum and Carlos Ward . He also turned to the music of the African continent ( Mandingo Griot Society , Gift of the Gnawa ) and reflected this in his compositions. With Naná Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott he entertained the trio CoDoNa, which is open to many influences . The pop group U2 sampled their pieces on the album Pop . He also played with Lou Reed , among others , to be heard on the LP (CD) The Bells .
Rolling Stone magazine voted his 1969 album Mu, First Part 94 on its list of The 100 Best Jazz Albums .
His son Eagle-Eye Cherry and his stepdaughter Neneh Cherry are also active musicians and have partially transferred his phrasing to their singing style.
Important recordings
- Complete Communion (with Gato Barbieri , Henry Grimes , Ed Blackwell, 1965)
- Symphony For Improvisers (with Barbieri, Karl Berger , Pharoah Sanders , Henry Grimes, JF Jenny-Clark , Ed Blackwell 1966)
- Where is Brooklyn? (with Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, 1966)
- Live at Cafe Montmartre (with Barbieri, Berger, Bo Stief , Aldo Romano , 1966)
- Eternal Rhythm (with Albert Mangelsdorff , Sonny Sharrock , Berger, et al. 1968)
- Mu 1 + 2 (duo with Ed Blackwell, 1969)
- Orient / Blue Lake (with Johnny Dyani and Okay Temiz, 1971)
- Organic Music (with Maffy Falay , Bengt Berger , Tommy Koverhult , Naná Vasconcelos, Okay Temiz et al., 1972)
- Relativity Suite (with Jazz Composer's Orchestra , 1973)
- Brown Rice (with Billy Higgins , Charlie Haden , Frank Lowe , a.o. 1975)
- Hear and Now (with Marcus Miller , Michael Brecker , Tony Williams et al., 1976)
- Codona (= Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, Naná Vasconcelos, 1978)
- Musical Monsters (1980, ed. 2018)
- Codona 2 (1980)
- Codona 3 (1982)
- Home Boy / Sister Out (with Ramuntcho Matta , Jannick Top et al., 1985)
- Art Deco (with James Clay , Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins , 1986)
- Live at the Bracknell Jazz Festival (with Carlos Ward, Mark Helias , Ed Blackwell, Naná Vasconcelos, 1986)
- Multiculturalism (with Peter Apfelbaum , Carlos Ward, Bob Stewart , Ingrid Sertso , Karl Berger, Ed Blackwell, Naná Vasconcelos and others, 1990)
- Dona Nostra (with Lennart Åberg , Bobo Stenson , Anders Jormin , Anders Kjellberg , Okay Temiz, 1993)
as a sideman
- Ornette Coleman Something Else (1958)
- Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
- Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)
- Sonny Rollins Our Man In Jazz (1962)
- New York Eye and Ear Control with Albert Ayler, Roswell Rudd , John Tchicai, Gary Peacock , Sunny Murray (1965)
- Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
- Carla Bley : Escalator over the Hill (1971)
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo non-fiction book , volume 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
- Don Cherry (Interview) in: Christian Broecking : Ornette Coleman - Sound of Freedom . Creative People Books, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938763-13-1 .
Web links
- Don Cherry at Allmusic (English)
- Discography (Engl.) ( Memento of 12 February 2008 at the Internet Archive )
- Don Cherry at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 100 best jazz albums . Rolling stone; accessed on November 16, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cherry, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cherry, Donald Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oklahoma City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1995 |
| Place of death | Málaga |