B. Goren. Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Don Cherry was born on November 18, 1934. He is one of the musician I would really like to see on stage but unfortunately, it will never happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNXePvT5H0s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Such a great musician, I love his recordings. Though he was still very active when I used to go out to listen to live jazz, somehow it never happend. I would have liked to see him live. The first recording I had was „Complete Comunion“, and it remained one of my favourite recordings of the 60´s . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Heard him live on several occasions notably when he led his quintet with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger, Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano at the Chat Qui Pêche in the mid 60s. Outstanding music and players. Spent very pleasant evenings there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Saw him once at a Manhattan club in the '80's (Slugs? Five Spot?) with Ed Blackwell on drums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 I saw him at the Village Vanguard, 1992, in a quartet with Ed Blackwell and Carlos Ward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Cherry even made it to Atlanta a couple of times in the 1980's, for which I'm grateful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Fitting that he's being inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 I heard him at the Spiral (NYC), a rock club in the late '80s. Blackwell couldn't make it, so Cherry used the Everyman Band without Torn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Don Cherry was born on November 18, 1934. He is one of the musician I would really like to see on stage but unfortunately, it will never happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNXePvT5H0s Everything I've read states that he was born in 1936. Did the old sources have his birth year wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 1936 is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afric Pepperbird Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Is listening to Bitter Funeral Beer, whilst hoisting a few beers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted November 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Everything I've read states that he was born in 1936. Did the old sources have his birth year wrong? 1936 is correct. You're right. It is my typing mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.L.M Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 I've seen him (more than I heard him)at the Jazz Festival of Chateauvallon (south of France, near Toulon), in 1972; with a bunch of swedish hippies (with kids and all on stage). He sings lullaby, playing piano and flute(s) but no trumpet. But I was lucky enough to catch in Brussels (did'nt live there at that time) the Ornette Coleman double bill concert. First part with the original quartet (OC, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins), second with his electric band. Don was fantastic, few notes here and there but who made everything what it should be. Great memory. The record they have made after - or before - that tour, as good as it was, did'nt reflete the marvel I've heard that evening. Listenig to the electric band after wasn't easy. I've enjoy it better some years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I've seen him (more than I heard him)at the Jazz Festival of Chateauvallon (south of France, near Toulon), in 1972; with a bunch of swedish hippies (with kids and all on stage). He sings lullaby, playing piano and flute(s) but no trumpet. But I was lucky enough to catch in Brussels (did'nt live there at that time) the Ornette Coleman double bill concert. First part with the original quartet (OC, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins), second with his electric band. Don was fantastic, few notes here and there but who made everything what it should be. Great memory. The record they have made after - or before - that tour, as good as it was, did'nt reflete the marvel I've heard that evening. Listenig to the electric band after wasn't easy. I've enjoy it better some years later. I got a Don Cherry LP with electric stuff, it´s from around 1985, I think it was done in Paris. I´m looking forward to get an LP player again, since rite now I only have CD player. Will listen to that stuff again. Remember I had a period in the mid 80´s when I was hip to electric stuff, got some kind of sabbatical from my life long loveaffair with Bebop and beyond..... I first heard Prime Time and after that picked up that electric Don Cherry. Maybe I also should purchase some Codona I-III, sure it has some interesting music on it. But my favourite Don Cherry recordings have been and will be those he did for BlueNote, and I love him on that Sonny Rollins stuff from late 1962 early 1963 (european tour) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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