說老實話，Don Cherry 的唱片耐（能）聽的不太多，雖然他的世界音樂方向極為重要。這張不為人知的罕見唱片還有 Charlie Haden, Frank Lowe 等參與，是一極棒的純音樂。（Degi-Degi 是一種非洲巫術人偶）

This music was recorded July 17, 1964, by New York artist Michael Snow for use as the soundtrack for his film entitled "New York Eye and Ear Control". The music was recorded prior to the production of the film.
Alto Saxophone – John Tchicai
Bass – Gary Peacock
Drums – Sonny Murray
Recorded By, Cover – Michael Snow
Tenor Saxophone – Albert Ayler
Trombone – Roswell Rudd
Trumpet – Don Cherry

Don Cherry - trumpet, percussion, vocals
Carlos Ward - also sax, percussion, vocals
Dollar Brand - piano, vocals

Heres a very favourite of mine , my vinyl of these has literally worn out , so heres an upgrade from the crappy affinity lp reissue complete with pressing faults and shitful sound. .of one and an unplayably scratched original of 2.
This has appeared on other blogs/ forums in mp3 ‘s but (a search seems to reveal) it not to have been shared here or on related sites.
Best to approach this without any preconceptions about free jazz/ the avant guard , all those cherished clichés and crass labels which roll off the tongue so easily.
Timeless stuff enjoy!!.
Note the 2 sets of covers were sourced online(my scanner is broken)
Those interested should also check the archives for el Corazon ,shared months or longer ago by jean francois.
cheers
enjoy
Review
by Skip Jansen
An outstanding work in the free jazz and avant-garde jazz idiom, the Mu sessions are among the most beautiful improvised duets recorded during the height of the free jazz movement. Recorded in France in 1969 and originally released on the BYG Actuel imprint, Mu remained an obscure collector's item for three decades until its reissue in two parts during the '90s. With Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, and percussion and Ed Blackwell on drums, percussion, and bells, the pair created one of the most telepathic improvisations on record, matched only by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali on the album Interstellar Space. From simple playful themes, Cherry develops a complex interplay with his partner that results in irrational mood changes and rhythm shifts, moving from ecstatic bird-call flurries through to fragile blues and nursery rhyme patterns. An African-inspired pulse groove follows the rapid-fire introduction, after which flurries of Cherry's pocket trumpet soar ecstatically into the air. More than three decades later, Mu is one of the few records that one can say sounds free, playful, candid, and revolutionary, an utterly arresting masterpiece that is a milestone in Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell s careers — not to mention the free jazz movement in its entirety. Essentially, the recording represents such fire, passion, and energy that it can certainly reach listeners far beyond the avant-garde jazz academy.

Recorded in France, April 22 (B2, C1, C2) and August 11 (A, B1, D), 1971.
Trumpet, Flute, Piano, Vocals, Written-By – Don Cherry
Bass – Johnny Dyani (tracks: B2, C1, C2)
Drums – Okay Tamiz* (tracks: B2, C1, C2)
Drums, Vocals, Accordion – Han Bennink (tracks: A, B1, D)
Liner Notes [Japanese] – Masahiko Yuh
Photography By – Masatoshi Sunayama
Tambura – Mocqui* (tracks: A, B1, D)

Don Cherry's Eternal Rhythm Group was organised and recorded in collaboration with the Berlin Jazz Festival, Nov 11th and 12th 1968.
Performer [Haitian Guard], Composed By – Don Cherry
Bass – Arild Andersen
Cornet, Gamelan [Gender, Saron], Flute [Bengali, Bamboo, Metal, Plastic],
Drums, Gamelan [Saron], Gong, Bells, Voice – Jacques Thollot
Guitar – Sonny Sharrock
Piano, Piano [Prepared] – Joachim Kühn
Producer – Joachim Ernst Berendt
Remastered By – Willem Makkee
Research [Tape Research] – Marcel Osche
Saxophone [Tenor], Oboe, Clarinet, Flute – Bernt Rosengren
Trombone – Albert Mangelsdorff, Eje Thelin
Vibraphone, Piano, Gamelan [Gender] – Karl Berger

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

日本語は英語の後に続きます。
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"Hip as hell" - The Wire
"Their output doesn’t suggest an incendiary avant-garde so much as an extended post-bop language, cool-tempered and abidingly hip." - WBGO
After having released Don Cherry's Cherry Jam as a limited Record Store Day title in the Autumn of 2020, Gearbox presents this essential release on specialist Japanese Edition vinyl and CD as well as digitally.
‘Cherry Jam’ sets the scene in 60s Copenhagen, a city which at the time proved instrumental in the hosting and development of jazz musicians both local and American. Cherry had performed and recorded there with Archie Shepp in 1963, toured with Albert Ayler in the autumn of 1964, and would go on to have a residency at the hip Cafe Montmartre in 1966.
Our recording is taken from the original tape of a 1965 radio broadcast, programmed by Denmark’s national radio station (Danmarks Radio.) It was in this same year that Cherry would record his landmark Blue Note recording, ‘Complete Communion’, with Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri on tenor saxophone, Henry Grimes on double bass, and Edward Blackwell on drums, as well as feature on fellow American expatriate George Russell’s live album ‘George Russell Sextet at Beethoven Hall’. This particular line-up however, consisting of Danish musicians, has never been heard after its original broadcast date, and neither have the three original Don Cherry compositions that are featured on the recording credits.
These four pieces show Don Cherry in the midst of his transformation from pivotal sideman in New York’s avant-garde jazz scene to leader of his own groups and world traveller. His endless curiosity, free-thinking openness to different cultures, and rejection of musical boundaries paved the way for future creators in jazz, world music, and beyond.
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フリー・ジャズの先駆者で伝説のトランペット、コルネット奏者、ドン・チェリー。昨年のレコード・ストア・デイ限定作品としてリリースされた、1965年にデンマーク国営ラジオで収録された彼の未発表音源『チェリー・ジャム』が、この度12インチ重量盤およびCDで再発される。
オーネット・コールマンとの共演でも知られる鬼才、ドン・チェリー。このセッションが録音されたコペンハーゲンでチェリーは1963年にアーチー・シェップと共演し、レコー ディングもしている。1964年の秋にはアルバート・アイヤーとツアーをし、1966年には人気のカフェ・モンマルトルの常駐になるなど縁の深い場所なのである。1965年は、チェリーが代表作のブルーノート作品『コンプリート・コミュニオン』を発表したり、『ベートーヴェン・ホールのジョージ・ラッセル・セクステット』へ参加するなど、自身にとって音楽的な実りの多い年だった。それと同じ時期にデンマークの地元ミュージシャンと共 にデンマーク国営ラジオで行なわれたセッションが、今作『チェリー・ジャム』だ。
チェリーとピアニストのアトリ・ビョーンがジャム・セッションという形で定期的に共演していたことが、その現場を収録してデンマークの大衆と共有しようというデンマーク・ ラジオの決断に繋がった。参加ミュージシャンは全員コペンハーゲンのジャズ・シーン出身者で、テナー・サックス奏者のモーエンス・ボッレルプ、ベーシストのベニー・ニールセン、ドラマーのサイモン・コッペルがラインナップを固める。デンマーク人ミュージシャンから成るこの時の顔ぶれはしかし、最初の放送日以降、聴かれることがなかった。リチャード・ロジャースによるソウルフルなバラード「You Took Advantage of Me」を除く3曲が、チェリーの未発表作品というのもまた驚きである。
ドン・チェリーの異文化に対する飽くなき好奇心と型に捉われない自由な思考、そして音楽上の制約への拒絶が、ジャズ、ワールド・ミュージックにとどまらず幅広く、未来のクリエイターたちに道を拓いたのだ。
credits
released February 26, 2021
Don Cherry - cornet
Mogens Bollerup - tenor saxophone
Atli Bjørn - piano
Benny Nielsen - bass
Simon Koppel - drums
Recorded at Danmarks Radio Studio 2, Copenhagen, October 1965
Mastered in-house at Gearbox Records
Artwork photograph by Riccardo Schwamenthal

Credits:
Guitar, Flute – Gian Piero Pramaggiore
Mastered By – Arne Ziemann
Percussion, Berimbau – Nana Vasconcelos
Photography By – Peder Björkegren
Tambura [Tanpura] – Moki Cherry
Trumpet [Pocket Trumpet], Flute, Kora – Don Cherry
Label - Black Sweat Records
Notes:
Recorded at RAI studios [Rome, Italy] in 1976 for the television broadcast “Incontro con Don Cherry” presented by Franco Fayenz.
Licensed From – MOKI / The Estate Of Moki Cherry
Licensed From – RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Recorded At – RAI Studios, Rome
Mastered At – Oakfield Mastering
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in it's simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civiliziatioart">ns, offering different suggestions of sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal consciousness. A desert Western landscape marries Asian and Latin atmospheres. Indigenous contributions with berimbau explorations find fossil sounds of rattles and clap-hands invocations. Influences of Indian mantra singing are combined with eternal African voices or with folkish-Latin guitar rhythms, while flute and drums evoke distant dances. In the Organic Music everything becomes an act of devotion and love, an ecstatic dwell in the dimension of a sacred free-rejoice

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

1969年の『MU First Part & Second Part』、1971年4月フランス・カルパントゥラ、8月パリでのライヴを収録した、名盤『Orient』を2枚組でカップリング収録。

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cherry had a long association with free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, which began in the late 1950s. Cherry was also a pioneer in world fusion music in the 1960s and 1970s