Don cherry symphony for improvisers
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The Strange World Of… Don Cherry
Organic Music Theatre in Warsaw, ca 1973, courtesy of the Cherry Archive/ the estate of Moki Cherry
Ornette Coleman said Don Cherry had an elephant memory. Those who played with him said he could hear a melody just once and be able to reproduce it perfectly. This ability – combined with listening to shortwave radio from all around the world – provided the raw material for his compositions, bringing the whole world into his music from early on in his career. He began as one of the best post-bop trumpeters of the early 60s; in his primer on him in The Wire, jazz writer Brian Morton names Cherry as one of the three most important post-war trumpeters, along with Chet Baker and Miles Davis. By the 1970s, he had become the co-founder of a communal form of music-making, teaching, and living, with his partner Moki Cherry, where, as her motto went "the stage is home and home is a stage".
Don Cherry was born on 18 November 1936, to African and Choctaw parents in Oklahoma. The family moved to California when he was four, and he started playi
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Ian Tyson
Canadian singer-songwriter (1933–2022)
Ian Dawson TysonCM AOE (25 September 1933 – 29 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.[1]
Early life and education
Ian Dawson Tyson was born on 25 September 1933, in Victoria, British Columbia to George and Margaret Tyson.[2] His father George was an insurance salesman and polo enthusiast who emigrated from England in 1906.[2] Growing up in Duncan, British Columbia,[3] he learned to ride horses on his father's farm, and eventually became a rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties. He took up the guitar while in hospital recovering from a broken ankle sustained in a rodeo accident.[3] Fellow Canadian country artist Wilf Carter was a musical influence.[4] He graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958.[3]
Career
After graduation, Tyson moved to Toronto where he began
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AKA Donald Eugene Cherry
Born:18-Nov-1936
Birthplace:Oklahoma City, OK
Died:19-Oct-1995
Location of death: Alhaurín El Grande, Málaga, Spain
Cause of death: Hepatitis
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Jazz Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A founder of free-jazz, pocket trumpeter
Born in Oklahoma City but raised in Los Angeles by music-loving parents, Don Cherry spent his childhood surrounded by the sounds of the swing music of the 30s and 40s. By his early teens he had taken up the trumpet, and by his late teens he was already working as a professional musician in the be-bop field. In the latter half of the 1950s his future as one of the leading names in the jazz avant-garde was set in motion by a chance meeting with saxophonist Ornette Coleman in a record store; before long he was a full-time member of Coleman's quartet, developing a new form of musical expression on the club circuit. With the release of the quartet's first album Something Else!!! in 19
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