Don Cherry
Don Cherry is perhaps the most important avant-garde trumpeter in jazz history. His career took off when he joined up with saxophonist Ornette Colemen in the late 1950s. Coleman's album THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME, on which Cherry is prominently featured, essentially invented the concept of free improvisation in jazz. Cherry would play with Coleman for many years, but also collaborated with avant-garde icons such as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp and Steve Lacey, to name but a few. Cherry was one of jazz's most eclectic stylists and embraced a host of musical concepts from around the globe, while also guesting on albums for the likes of Lou Reed. A visionary personality with remarkable passion and heart, Don Cherry passed away in 1995. His step-daughter Neneh and son Eagle-eyed have both had successful musical careers as well.
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Albums
- (2009) The Codona Trilogy
- (2005) Symphony For Improvisers
- (2005) Brown Rice
- (2001) Dona Nostra
- (2000) Complete Communion
- (2000) El Corazón
- (0000) Old And New Dreams
Top Tracks
- Band of Gold
- Symphony For Improvisers (Digitally Remastered)
- Degi-Degi
- In Memoriam
- Manhattan Cry (Digitally Remastered)
Related Artists
- Ornette Coleman
- Archie Shepp
- Sonny Rollins
- Charlie Haden
- Albert Ayler
- Paul Bley
- Dewey Redman
- John Coltrane
- Dar'rell Green
- Donald Rubinstein
- Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra
- Ernesto Diaz Infante & Chris Forsyth
- Ernesto Diaz-Infante
- Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth
- Fortuna, Prisco & Scattaretico
- Go-GO Fightmaster
- Heiner Stadler
- J.D. and the Sons of Rhythm
- James Goudeau Jr
- Jeff Albert
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