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Don Cherry is one of music's great adventurers. Always ready to stretch himself, he has seemed more concerned with growing as an artist and expanding his horizons than with getting a big paycheck.... More[+]
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Innovative jazz trumpeter Don Cherry combines bebop, Middle Eastern and African beats in a distinctive musical style that's all his own. This memorable concert captures Cherry and his Multikulti quartet at the Days of Jazz event in Stuttgart, Germany, playing through a set list that includes "Walk to the Mountain," "Bemsha Swing," "Trans Love Airways," "Rhumba Multikulti," and "When the Rain Comes."
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When Don Cherry came floating down a street, graceful though gaunt, wood flute at his lips, tooting a song, you'd think he was pure music spirit, kin to the Pied Piper, Pan and Orpheus. On stage and off, he effused harmony through melody and rhythm. How Don Cherry tilted his head, made a face, showed his hand, bent his body and gave voice - or played piano, melodica, the African hunter's harp douss'n guni, and the world's most famous pocket trumpet - sang volumes.
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Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1936 and raised in Los Angeles, where he first began to play the trumpet and later piano. According to Cherry, his upbringing had everything to do with his interest in music:
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For Don Cherry, life and music were one and the same, and he consistently approached both with a daring sense of adventure. In his world-view, the art of living life and expressing life through music depended upon people "listening and traveling." A global explorer, Cherry learned to play and compose for wood flutes, tamboura, gamelan, and other non-Western instruments. Brown Rice is Cherry's mid-70s masterpiece, pulling from every corner of the planet (and beyond) to deliver a deeply spiritual groove that pulses with primal energy and folksy beauty. Combining elements of Middle-Eastern, African, and American music, Brown Rice brilliantly succeeds in covering the breadth of Cherry's musical interests while still remaining accessible, even danceable.
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Don cut his teeth on bebop, like most young musicians of his generation. In one of those historic moments that defy reason, Don met young saxophonist Ornette Coleman in a record store on 103rd Street, and was soon playing with Coleman's seminal quartet which ... included bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins. The group cut the landmark album Something Else!!! , ushering in the new Free Jazz movement. The group recorded several other albums and free jazz became an established jazz innovation during the 1960s. Cherry worked with other artists, including John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler, who were all becoming instrumental in the greatest developments in jazz music since the birth of bebop.
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