Interview with Jon Appleton
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.
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The importance of the image
Don Cherry will forever be associated with his pocket trumpet. When he came to Denmark with the New York Contemporary Five in the autumn of 1963, some reviewers even wrote that he was performing on it, even though he was actually playing a cornet. And on the cover photo – taken
Organic Music Societies
Welcome to a new post of the newsletter The Don Cherry Book Project. This post feature a link to a very precious work I did back in 2020/2021 together with Lawrence Kumpf: the introductory essay in the book Organic Music Societies which Brooklyn based Blank Forms published in 2021.
The Summer House Sessions
In this summer update, I’d like to go back 58 years in time. It was then – on 20 July 1968 – that Don Cherry recorded The Summer House Sessions in Kummelnäs, just outside of Stockholm. Together with a band that included both Swedish, European and American musicians they made a
En organisk situation i NYC 1963
When returning to New York in 1963 Don Cherry met an "informal organic situation" with new friends as Pharoah Sanders. Read an extract from my coming book with quotes from my unique interviews with Roswell Rudd, Sunny Murray and Don Moore. It's in Swedish and only for paying members.