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Biography. The second track from Tomorrow Is the Question — Ornette Coleman’s 1959 wake-up call to the fusty hard bop movement — is a medium tempo blues, “Tears Inside.”. After the statement of the tune’s two-beat, countrified-bebop theme, trumpeter Don Cherry plays a solo that — for all its frail beauty and general adherence to ...
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. The cause was liver failure...
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 · By Claudia Levy. October 19, 1995 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Don Cherry, 58, the avant-garde jazz trumpeter whose insatiable curiosity about the music of other countries was a catalyst for the...
Nov 18, 2023 · In the rich tapestry of jazz, Don Cherry emerges as a singular figure, a trumpeter whose innovative spirit and boundary-defying collaborations have left an indelible mark on the genre. Born eighty-seven years ago today on November 18, 1936, in Oklahoma City, Cherry’s journey in music traversed continents, genres, and cultural landscapes.
Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) 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).
Oct 4, 2005 · Published Oct. 21, 1995 | Updated 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,...
