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Happy Fathers Day - John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, Don Cherry and Charlie Parker
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Don Cherry
Happy International Jazz Day
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There are important jazz musicians who are more talked and read about than actually heard, and one is Albert Ayler. He did not record extensively. He died at 34 in 1970. His music is so radical that it makes Ornette Coleman sound mellifluous. But John Coltrane asked that Ayler play at his funeral, and Don Cherry believed Ayler “carried the gift, the voice, a reflection of God.”
Albert Ayler with his brother Donald
Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman [1959]
Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry at The Monterey Jazz Festival
Happy Fathers Day - John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, Don Cherry and Charlie Parker
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Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Henry Grimes, Stuttgart [1963] by Jan Jurgen
Ornette Coleman, This is Our Music [1960] Atlantic
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone Don Cherry – pocket trumpet Charlie Haden – bass Ed Blackwell – drums
In 1960, people literally wanted to beat the crap out of Ornette Coleman because of what he was doing to jazz. But now, his work just sounds exceptionally fresh and timeless.
Don Cherry, Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris [1965]
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Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Sonny Rollins ready to record Our Man in Jazz live at The Village Gate, July, 1962
Pharoah Sanders, during Don Cherry’s ‘Symphony for Improvisers’ session [November 11, 1966]
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry with Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Roskilde Festival 1981
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"Jazz is an art that makes a person completely naked." Don Cherry - Born 18 November, 1936
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FREE JAZZ, Amsterdam, 1968 - Don Cherry, John Tchicai & Peter Brötzmann [‘Machine Gun’ line-up]
Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman
The quest for freedom had both a musical and political resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther Party even produced its own album of underground anthems 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol for a younger generation of black American artists, a source of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often exotic, musical inspiration.