Don Cherry
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Sep 27, 2026
Simon HarrisonHOST
Welcome.
Simon HarrisonHOST
We played and kicked off a few weeks ago with We Want Sounds Reissue and here's another one, Don Cherry.
Simon HarrisonHOST
Sunrise.
Simon HarrisonHOST
Live in Epsilanti, Michigan, 1977.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Ah!
Kenny WarrenGUEST
I remember the first time I heard Don Cherry, I went to the library in my hometown and I got a CD of The Shape of Jazz to come.
Kenny WarrenGUEST
And when I was about, I was probably 14 or 15.
Kenny WarrenGUEST
You know, I have like a kind of a funny, funny way into jazz.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
And it turns out I was very right.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
But anyway, they are two songs from an album called The Third World Underground by Dollar Brand, Don Cherry and Carlos Ward.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
And this was a live concert recorded live in 1972.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
At the Jazz House Montmartre in Copenhagen.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
He spent a lot of time in New York.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
So we've got dollar brand.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
Then we've got Don Cherry on the trumpet vocals and percussion here.
Finn JohanssonGUEST
And he's a trumpeter who started out with Ornette Coleman in the fifties and then went on to do a whole bunch of things.
John QuainHOST
The sax is rendered in a very accurate way without attenuation or harshness, I would say.
John QuainHOST
And the same goes for Don Cherry's cornet on this album.
John QuainHOST
The Cambridge speakers brought it out very well.
John QuainHOST
Part of that nimbleness I mentioned before.
Larry SeidmanHOST
That was motivated by the fact that I used to play French horn and liked to experiment with jazz and blues, which I thought was rather unorthodox, but then discovered that in fact it wasn't.
Larry SeidmanHOST
From that episode, number 77, I wanna play you something pretty fantastic, a tune written by trumpeter Don Cherry, and it's called Elefantasy.
Larry SeidmanHOST
Tom Varner on French horn, Tony Malaby, tenor sax, Cameron Brown on bass, Matt Wilson, drums.
Larry SeidmanHOST
That's from the 2002 release Second Communion.
Mark DalyHOST
ECM record, untitled, and the tune was called Fantastic.
Mark DalyHOST
And now for some brown rice with Don Cherry.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Samson! I was in love some time Yeah,
Mark DalyHOST
yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mark DalyHOST
Don Cherry, absolutely legendary.
Mark DalyHOST
So yeah, I'm going to say hello to a few people in the chat room.
Mark DalyHOST
So it's got Rich, we've got Bittersweet, Ryle Force, Quinny B, Adam, Sean E, Jerry and Aisha.
Rav DeheleHOST
This one is the first international release of Brajo from Kilimanjaro.
Rav DeheleHOST
Dollar Brand, who is Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Cherry and Carlos Ward.
Rav DeheleHOST
It was originally released in 1974 on Trio Records.
Rav DeheleHOST
We Want Sounds have somehow got their hands on it and they are reissuing it and it's out now.
David Chaim SmithGUEST
Mm.
David Chaim SmithGUEST
Don Cherry, Colin Walcott, Ralph Towner, um, uh, Charlie Haden, quite a few luminaries whose records I ended up deeply loving throughout my life.
David Chaim SmithGUEST
And through Nancy, I was introduced to Vajrayana.
David Chaim SmithGUEST
Um, the first time I really became aware of it was when she left-
Stephen BuckleyGUEST
So, um, I guess that took me down a number of different things, and I tried a number of different things.
Stephen BuckleyGUEST
I got quite into, like, jazz and improvisation and more kind of like, um, the kind of cosmic spiritual jazz stuff like Alice Coltrane and, um, like Don Cherry and, um, Pharaoh Sanders and stuff.
Stephen BuckleyGUEST
And that kind of led to stuff that was getting a bit more, um, I guess a bit more upbeat and not as ambient, uh, you know, and a bit more based on kind of improvisation.
Stephen BuckleyGUEST
Um, a bit more kind of wriggly and not as comforting, you know.