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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...
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....
Oct 21, 1995 · Don Cherry, one of the most lyrical and important jazz trumpeters, died on Thursday at the home of his stepdaughter, Neneh Cherry, near Malaga, Spain. He was 58.
Nov 15, 2023 · Biography. Articles. News. Has Influenced. 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:
Donald Eugene Cherry 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 Collective Improvisation (1960).
Don Cherry was a founder of free jazz and a pocket trumpeter. Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, but was raised in Los Angeles by music-loving grandparents. He grew up surrounded by the sounds swing music of the 30s, 40s, and 40s.
Oct 4, 2005 · Don Cherry, one of the most lyrical and important jazz trumpeters, died Thursday at the home of his stepdaughter, Neneh Cherry, near Malaga, Spain. He was 58.
