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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Don Cherry and the 1960s
Returning to the late 1960s. Going through what I’ve written. Writing new material. Finalising chapters. They’re probably too long. But there’s so much to tell. There was always a lot going on in the life of Don Cherry – but some periods are more significant than others. With
Remnants: Cherry and Dyani
What lingers in the archive? What breaths of Black life persist in its folds? What are the aural, visual, and tactile traces that hold both beauty and tension? These questions set the direction for the exhibition Remnants, which is currently on display at Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm. The starting point
Anniversary of Chateauvallon
Exactly 54 years ago today – on 27 August 1972 – The Don Cherry New Researches performed at the jazz festival in Chateauvallon, France. The concert was filmed by French television and is something of a highlight from Cherry’s most hippie-influenced period. “Back then, everything was supposed to just flow
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