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  1. Cornet, trumpet, wood flute, tambura, gamelan. Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A ...

  2. Nov 16, 2022 · For Don to keep up with Ornette made him one of the baddest technicians to ever play the instrument.”. Twenty-seven years on from Cherry’s death, El’Zabar is now performing a tribute concert ...

  3. Mar 6, 2024 · Listen on YouTube Giovanni Russonello, Times jazz critic “Trayra Boia” by Codona. You can tell Don Cherry wasn’t wedded to any one instrument, from the way he played the trumpet.

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  4. Cherry first attained prominence with Coleman, with whom he began playing around 1957. At that time Cherry’s instrument of choice was a pocket trumpet (or cornet) — a miniature version of the full-sized model. The smaller instrument — in Cherry’s hands, at least — got a smaller, slightly more nasal sound than is typical of the larger ...

  5. Nov 15, 2023 · Don Cherry was a versatile and influential jazz musician who played the trumpet, piano, flute and other instruments. He was a member of Ornette Coleman's quartet and a leader of his own groups that blended jazz with global sounds and cultures.

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  7. Oct 20, 1995 · Don Cherry, 58, the avant-garde jazz trumpeter whose insatiable curiosity about the music of other countries was a catalyst for the pan-cultural "world music" genre, died of liver cancer Oct. 19 ...

  8. Apr 28, 2021 · For the renowned trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry — who settled in Sweden at the end of the 1960s after spending years in New York as one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz ...

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