Browse by Artist: CHERRY, DON

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	"Mu" Second Part
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 331LP

31st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell)." "His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series." --Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	Live at Café Montmartre 1966 Volume Three
Label:	ESP-DISK
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ESPDISK 4051CD

Performers: Don Cherry (trumpet); Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone); Bo Stief (bass); Karl Berger (vibraphone); Aldo Romano (drums). "The final volume of this three-part series, containing two extended performances of 'Complete Communion' and 'Remembrance.'" "Don Cherry, more than any other artist in the jazz of his era, pioneered the music's internationalist nature that has now come to be commonly accepted as an integral part of its character. The individuality of Cherry's contribution to the history of jazz has often been unfairly obscured by his admittedly important association with the music of Ornette Coleman. While the (pocket) trumpeter's position as Coleman's front line partner in the altoist's first revolutionary quartet was indeed a major one, Cherry's role as one of the founders of the genre that is known today as 'world music' is equally significant." -- Russ Musto

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	Orient
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	GET 2010

"Super rare double album (originally recorded for the French BYG label but later released by Affinity) showing Don Cherry in two 1971 live trio sets. 'Orient Part 1 & 2' and 'Si Ta Ra Ma' were recorded in Carpentras, France on August 11th with the great Dutch drummer Han Bennink and Mocqui Cherry on tamboura. 'Eagle Eye Part 1 & 2' and 'Togetherness' were recorded in Paris on April 22nd with the amazing South African bassist Johnny Dyani and drummer Okay Temiz. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	Mu Second Part
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	GET 331

"An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell). 'His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series' -- Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	Tibet
Label:	PICC-A-DILLY
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	PIC 3515LP

Grey-area LP reissue, originally released as Eternal Now on Sonet Records in 1973. Don was living in Sweden at the time and made 2 great spaced-out records (in the freeform "Universal Music" style) for Sonet (Live Ankara being the other) -- the prior CD reissue of this material has seemingly disappeared into the wind. If this album had been made by some Vietnam vet living in a windowless cove in Northern California -- with a picture of leaves on the cover, no less -- it would have made the NWW list and originals would be fetching more than a used car, today. As an unfortunate aside, this LP reissue features the vastly inferior American cover as used by Picc-a-dilly, compared to the screaming ethno-psychedelic visuals favored by Sonet. The fact that he is shown wearing a suite that he certainly wasn't wearing during this recording, playing an instrument that he certainly wasn't playing during this recording -- apparently these details fazed no one. "Piano and percussion dominate this rare recording from sessions in April of 1973. No cornet or trumpet. Cherry sings and plays piano, gamelan, harmonium, and assorted percussion. The other musicians are: Christer Bothen (piano, etc.), Bernt Rosengren (taragot, a Swedish wooden soprano saxophone), Agneta Ernstrom (Tibetan bell, etc.), Bengt Berger (piano, mridangam, etc.)."

Artist:	CHERRY, DON
Title:	Malkauns/Brown Rice
Label:	SLOW TO SPEAK
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	MM.139

Two tracks from "Brown Rice plus 2 tracks from The Holy Mountain soundtrack; compiled by Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson for Slow to Speak. "It's been said that Sun Ra is the cosmic champion of jazz, the man of genius from outer space sent to Earth to reinterpret the message of our celestial ancestors through his music. Well, if Sun Ra is from another galaxy, Don Cherry is from another dimension entirely, a man so hauntingly original and seemingly unrooted that he defies origin, heritage, homeland. Most noted for providing the soundtrack for both of Jodorowsky's masterpieces, Holy Mountain and El Topo, Cherry did for jazz what Ash Ra Tempel and Kraftwerk did for rock, taking a genre and superseding well beyond its previously demarcated boundaries, demolishing all set rules in seeing in this style the potential for something far more original and expressive than any of his predecessors could've imagined possible and unconcerned with the potential fallout from reactionaries far less gifted than he. Cherry's style is dirty, gritty, unembarrassed and uncompromisingly experimental. Bound only by his insatiable desire for the uncharted and unheard, Cherry stood for a perverted re-appropriation of jazz, determined to bring the sound from out of the secluded club or café and out into the streets, through the illegal brothels and sleezy strip-clubs of yesteryear, past the LSD fueled psychedelic romps of the 1960s, on to the meditative reflection of the New Age and finally upwards into the timeless, limitless space of unknown Universes. It is in this realm that his music has remained, lingering there for eternity as Cherry's eternal gift to mankind. Sadly, only a few have actually heard his genius, and thus the obvious necessity of highlighting some of his more remarkable work. Explore this 12", and then explore more, as the universe of Don Cherry holds far more than the untrained mind could possibly fathom." Silkscreened lettering on jacket.

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