Don Cherry

Don Cherry – Orient (1973/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charly | BYG

“The language is expansive and indefinable, with elements of as many folk traditions as you can name and both long tracks sustain attention and renewed attention amazingly well.”
– The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Orient is a live album by jazz/world music musician Don Cherry recorded in 1971 and released on the BYG label in Japan in 1974, originally untitled. When reissued in the UK by Affinity Records in 1980, it was issued with the title “Orient.” Later reissues have continued to use the same title.

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Don Cherry – Dollar and Okay’s Tune (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:32 minutes | 341 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charly Digital

Recorded at the iconic ORTF studios (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française)for the Sound and Vision program in Paris in 1971, this remarkable LP features one of the paramount Jazz figures of all time, Don Cherry, interpreting Turkish rhythms.

This release serves as the sequel to Okay Temiz’s magnum opus, ‘Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982’ LP, released worldwide by Caz Plak in 2022, and is the second chapter of Caz Plak’s ‘Turkish Jazz Trilogy’.

“Don Cherry Trio – The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971” LP is particularly significant as it predates Don Cherry’s groundbreaking “Organic Music Society” album from 1973, in which Okay Temiz also performed.

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Don Cherry – Inside/Outside (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:07 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta Music – The Concert Archive

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 — October 19, 1995) was an avant—garde American jazz trumpeter whose career began in close collaboration with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Later he lived in different parts of the world and played with many musicians.

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Don Cherry – Roundtrip (1977) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Transversales Disques

After more than 45 years forgotten in the personal archives of Jean Schwarz, Transversales Disques is very happy to release this previously unpublished recording which brings together the great Don Cherry and his friend, composer Jean Schwarz, pioneer in electro-acoustic music and member of G.R.M.

Includes digital pre-order of Roundtrip (1977). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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Don Cherry – Eternal Rhythm (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:29 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS Classical

“Eternal Rhythm” is extoled as “Don Cherry’s masterwork” by Allmusic’s Brian Olewnick. It is “one of the earliest major examples of the idea that it was possible for any and all musical cultures to exist simultaneously”. Cherry had already earned his space in the jazz pantheon through his pocket trumpet play with the ground-breaking 1958-1961 Ornette Coleman Quartet. Later generations would know him primarily through his work with the world-music-oriented trio Codona, and his own multi-instrument “multikulti” explorations mingling diverse musical folkways.

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Don Cherry – Complete Communion (1966/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:17 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Not counting a couple of sessions he co-led with John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, Complete Communion was the first album Don Cherry recorded as a leader following his departure from the Ornette Coleman Quartet. It was also one of the earliest showcases for the Argentinian tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, who Cherry discovered during a stay in Rome. While the music on Complete Communion was still indebted to Coleman’s concepts, Cherry injected enough of his own personality to begin differentiating himself as a leader. He arranged the original LP as two continuous side-long suites, each of which incorporated four different compositions and was recorded in a single take. In practice, this meant that several melodic themes popped up over the course of each side; all the musicians free-associated off of each theme, engaging in intense, abstract dialogues before moving on to the next. As the album’s title suggests, every member of the group not only solos, but shares the total space selflessly. Bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ed Blackwell both play extremely active roles, especially Grimes, who solos powerfully and sometimes carries the main riffs. Often the music sounds more like a conversation, as opposed to a solo with support, because the musicians make such intelligent use of space and dynamics, and wind up with a great deal of crackling, volatile interplay as a result. The leader remains recognizably himself, and his burnished tone is a nice contrast with Barbieri’s fiery approach; for his part, Barbieri’s playing has a lot of speechlike inflections, and he spends a lot of time in the upper register of his horn, which makes him sound quite similar to Ornette at times. As a whole, the project comes off remarkably well, establishing Cherry as an avant-garde force to be reckoned with in his own right. –Steve Huey

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Don Cherry – Cherry Jam (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 22:24 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records

In the same year that composer/multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry recorded his milestone Complete Communion (Blue Note, 1966) he took his cornet to the studio of Danish National Radio. Cherry had established himself by the early 1960s, playing with Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and Ed Blackwell. Copenhagen began a long reign as a Northern European jazz mecca in the 1950s. In 1966 Cherry began a residency at that city’s iconic Café Montmartre and recorded these previously unreleased tracks during an earlier session at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation facility. On Cherry Jam, a vinyl EP from London-based Gearbox Records, Cherry is joined by four local musicians who while more than capable, are unfamiliar names outside their country.

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Don Cherry – Take A Message To Mary (1969)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:02 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Donald Ross Cherry (January 11, 1924 – April 4, 2018) was an American traditional pop music and big band singer and golfer. In music, he is best known for his 1955 hit “Band of Gold”.
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Don Cherry – Hear & Now (1976/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:09 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Hear & Now is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic label.
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Don Cherry – Let It Be Me (1967)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:00 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Monument – Legacy

Donald Ross Cherry (January 11, 1924 – April 4, 2018) was an American traditional pop music and big band singer and golfer. In music, he is best known for his 1955 hit “Band of Gold”.
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Don Cherry – Don Cherry (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:49 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Monument – Legacy

US Singer, born Jan 11, 1924 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA, died April 4, 2018.

Pop vocalist Don Cherry recorded primarily in the 1950s, laying down a smooth balladeering style similar to that of Perry Como or Andy Williams.
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