Bengt "Beche" Berger är död. En mästare är borta. Det är så oerhört sorgligt. Mest naturligtvis för sambon Ann Petrén och hans nära och kära, men också för så väldigt många fler. Han hade enorm betydelse för svenskt musikliv och spåren efter honom har lämnats till oss som
It's time again for the newsletter The Don Cherry Book Project. I welcome new subscribers and say hello to those who have been around for a while. In recent weeks I have done several interesting interviews with Neneh Cherry. We have talked about the tour with The Slits
Forty-eight years ago today, the film Det är inte min musik (It's not my music) was shown for the first time on Swedish television. It is a wonderful film made by the filmmaker Urban Lasson. Through a geographical lens, he captures Don Cherry both in the old schoolhouse
This time we’re venturing a little beyond Don Cherry. It’s about a Danish radio recording with Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler that never came to fruition. It was the day when everything went wrong, as radio producer and tennis player Torben Ulrich once told me. Welcome as a paid-member to read.
In 1965, Don Cherry recorded Togetherness in Paris. Two sessions were held, and the album was released by the Italian label Durium the following year. With the help of a found 8-inch vinyl (!), I’ll attempt in this post to unravel some of the mystery that has always surrounded this
At the later part of 1976. That's where I've been lately. My mind has travelled to Italy, New York City, to Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and California. Just to follow the magic whereabouts of Don Cherry, trying to write his story. Quite fascinating that you
March 9 Ornette Coleman would have turned 96. Cherry's relationship with Coleman was lifelong. In 1969 they recorded Crisis. In an extract from my book, you are able to read some of Denardo Coleman's thoughts. Only for paid members.
A week ago I signed a contract with Swedish Modernista to publish the Don cherry biography. I'm so happy! Finally it will be finished, hopefully by the end of this year. And – hopefully again – it will be out some time during 2027. Since the last newsletter I'
The newsletter this time – for paid members only – contains a lengthy interview (in English) with Jon Appleton who brought Don Cherry to teach at Dartmouth College in 1970 and took part on the album Human Music.
Recently Steve Gebharts film Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill was to be seen on Youtube. It's a brilliant film with a lot of extraordinary footage from the recording of Carla Bley's beloved Escalator Over the Hill. To Carla Bley it was an obvious
The Don Cherry Book Project is a mailing list and website regarding my work with writing an extended biography of Don Cherry. Here you will be able to read bits and pieces from unique written chapters in the coming book, extracts from nearly 200 interviews I have made with fellow