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 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.
R.I.P. James "Blood" Ulmer
Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer (1940-2026) has passed away. Involved in the music of Ornette Coleman in the 1970s he also got involved in Don Cherry who was a big inspiration for him. Here comes extracts from an unpublished interview I did with "Blood" in 2014,
The real Don Cherry blindfold
Blindfolds are fun! But usually in the end you have an answer to what you've been listening to. This time you don't. Don Cherry did a recording in Stockholm in 1963 with some unknown musicians. For years I've being searching for answers, but without