Old Don Cherry

With the reissue of Where Is Brooklyn?, Blue Note completes a trilogy of Don Cherry releases (also including Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers) which up to now had only been available on CD in a limited edition Mosaic box set. Cherry initially came into wide prominence in jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's landmark 1959-61 quartet.

Tamma with Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell - Tamma (1984) {ODIN NJ 4014-2 rel 1997}
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© 1984, 1997 Odin Records | ODIN NJ 4014-2
Jazz / World Fusion / Afro-Fusion / World Music

Tamma (which means talking drum in Gambian) is a percussion and horn jazz group founded by Gambian master drummer Miki N'Doye and brought to Norway where he enlisted the aid of that country's musicians in forming an open-ended music that would engage European cultures in the music of the African Diaspora. A quintet, they feature a proper trap kit drummer, saxophonist, trumpet, an electric bassist, and N'Doye. All members play some percussion and sing (more like chant). They make an ethereal, moody, high-lonesome kind of rhythm-based Afro-jazz. Performing live at the Mode International Jazz Festival, they were joined for two days by the late trumpeter and douzongouni player (African guitar), and the late drummer Ed Blackwell both men at that time were members of Old and New Dreams and former bandmates in the Ornette Coleman Quartet.

Don Cherry - Hear & Now (1977) {Atlantic–Wounded Bird WOU8217 rel 2007}
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© 1977, 2007 Atlantic / Wounded Bird Records | WOU 8217
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Fusion / Jazz Rock / Trumpet

Back in the seventies when jazz/rock fusion was starting to take place, most people were concentrating on Mahavishnu Orchestra , Return To Forever, Weather Report and Tony Williams Lifetime. Those groups were the defacto jazz/fusion pioneers which came out of Miles Davies's influence. Now, almost 30 years later when I listen to Don Cherrys Here And Now, I feel that this album is as great a collection of music as all of the others I mentioned although it never received as much notoriety. This is a great CD which leans a bit more on the Jazz side of the fusion movement. It never gets old.

Old And New Dreams - Old And New Dreams (1979) {ECM 1154}
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© 1979 ECM Records | ECM 1154
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz

The second recording by Old and New Dreams was, like its first from three years earlier, named after the group. Trumpeter Don Cherry, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell made for a mighty team, performing high-quality free bop in the tradition of the Ornette Coleman Quartet (of which they were all alumni). In addition to two of Ornette's tunes (including a lengthy exploration of "Lonely Woman"), the musicians each contributed an original of their own. Stirring music in a setting that always brought out the best in each of these musicians.

Your Hit Parade – was a 41-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting popular music from the pre-rock era years of 1940-1954, and non-rock and roll songs from 1955 through mid-1960s.
Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Your Hit Parade" series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others.

On their first stand-alone record as a duo, Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake celebrate their 30+ year playing relationship with an electrifying live set of pieces, all featuring music composed by legendary free jazz musician Don Cherry. Restricting himself here to tenor saxophone, Vandermark has developed an almost telepathic understanding with Drake, whose masterful work on the drum kit has rarely been more focused and relaxed.