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Do the Tago Mago
9, Apr 2010BROWN RICE DEGI-DEGI Don Cherry Don Cherry A&M/Horizon : 1976 DC, trumpet, electric piano, voice; Charlie Haden, bass; Billy Higgins, drums; Frank Lowe, tenor sax; Ricky Cherry, electric piano; on Rice only: Bunchie Fox, electric bongos; Verna Gillis, voice. If this site has a musical lodestar, it’s probably best personified by Don Cherry. Global traveler, [...]
SUPERGROUP!
8, Feb 2010CONSEQUENCES TRIO New York Contemporary Five Consequences Fontana : 1963 Archie Shepp, tenor sax; Don Cherry, trumpet; John Tchicai, alto sax; Don Moore, bass; J. C. Moses, drums. The New York Contemporary Five barely lasted a year all told, but they recorded five albums that shaped the jazz to come. They were a supergroup after [...]
SUMMER RE-UP: The Utopia Will Not Be Televised
30, Aug 2009Originally posted 11 July 2007. THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN UTOPIA & VISIONS BRA JOE FROM KILIMANJARO Don Cherry Organic Music Society Caprice : 1972 DC, trumpet, voice, piano; Maffy Falay, muted trumpet; Tommy Goldman, flute; Tommy Koverhult, flute; Tage Siven, bass; Okay Temiz, drums; and various visitors and friends. For “Bra Joe,” it’s [...]
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Better Git It in Your Soul
26, May 2009BRA JOE FROM KILIMANJARO > JABULANI-EASTER JOY > WAYA-WA-EGOLI > SWAZI > WAYEAH-WAYEAH-O The Third World Underground Trio : 1972 Don Cherry, trumpet, percussion, vocals; Carlos Ward, also sax, percussion, vocals; Dollar Brand, piano, vocals. This is pure pleasure. The sole album from The Third World trio is so rare that it’s easy to discount. There’s the slightest [...]
Play Time
22, Jul 2008RUSHOUR BROKEN SHADOWS Old and New Dreams Playing ECM : 1980 Dewey Redman, tenor sax, musette; Don Cherry, trumpet; Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums. Is it possible this group is underappreciated? That instead of being recognized as a jazz super-ensemble, they are viewed more as an Ornette Coleman cover band? Though all bandmembers have [...]
Right Foot Start, Left Foot Follow!
10, Jun 2008I WALK Don Cherry Home Boy Barclay : 1985 DC, vocals, piano, trumpet, harp, melodica; Ramuntcho Matta, guitar; Elli Medieros, backing vocals; Fil Mong, bass; Jeanne-Pierre Coco, congas; Abdoulaye Prosper Niang, drums. It’s a straight-up fact that not enough jazz artists release 7″ singles. So here’s a flip side from a shoulda been chart-topper courtesy [...]
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Bitter Funerals: Pour Some on the Curb for 2007
18, Dec 2007TONGSI CHETU Bengt Berger Bitter Funeral Beer ECM : 1982 BB, master drum, ko-gyil, axatse; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Tommy Adolfsson, trumpet, sogo; Kjell Westling, sopranino sax, bass clarinet; Thomas Mera Gartz, tenor sax, violin, drums, kidi; Ulf Wallander, soprano and tenor sax; Jörgen Adolfsson, alto and soprano sax, violin, sopranino; Christer Bothén, tenor sax, [...]
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