Eternal Rhythm: The Don Cherry Tapes and Travelations
The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive. When he says that music is breath he talks of something much bigger than the blow needed to make the trumpets sound. From his prime instrument, the trumpet, to his beloved ângoni via flutes, piano and melodica Don Cherryâs voice is unique; like the man from which it springs, it is instantly recognisable whatever instrument or angle it is coming from.
The Don Cherry Tapes laid the foundation in 1979 of the Cherry Archives which preserve the memory of Don and his extended tribal family. The archive began with a series of taped autobiographical interviews and a box of ephemera and mementoes. Now, 30 years after his death, those transcribed conversations are finally being published, illuminated by Donâs own artworks and augmented by the author Graeme Ewensâ tour journals and contemporaneous notes made over three decades of collaboration.
The material included here is previously unpublished and is a kind of top-and-tail treatment of one of the Jazz Greatâs personal experience, combining autobiographical background alongside his mentor Ornette Coleman with objective reportage from some of his later tours and personal anecdotes that offer a unique perspective from the writer who had become Donâs confidant, travel companion, witness and friend. They hung out together in the 1970s and between 1979 and 1984 were collaborating, collecting and collating material for a multimedia extravaganza that Don called âThe Projectâ, which was picked up again in 1994. This would tell his story from the inside and from alongside, aiming to glimpse the essence of a cosmic traveller and multicultural âorganicâ musician, from the spiritual high spots to the low points of the jazz life.
The pages on his later years include personal reflections on his contemporary musical travellers and reveals details of his collaboration with John Coltrane.
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The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive. When he says that music is breath he talks of something much bigger than the blow needed to make the trumpets sound. From his prime instrument, the trumpet, to his beloved ângoni via flutes, piano and melodica Don Cherryâs voice is unique; like the man from which it springs, it is instantly recognisable whatever instrument or angle it is coming from.
The Don Cherry Tapes laid the foundation in 1979 of the Cherry Archives which preserve the memory of Don and his extended tribal family. The archive began with a series of taped autobiographical interviews and a box of ephemera and mementoes. Now, 30 years after his death, those transcribed conversations are finally being published, illuminated by Donâs own artworks and augmented by the author Graeme Ewensâ tour journals and contemporaneous notes made over three decades of collaboration.
The material included here is previously unpublished and is a kind of top-and-tail treatment of one of the Jazz Greatâs personal experience, combining autobiographical background alongside his mentor Ornette Coleman with objective reportage from some of his later tours and personal anecdotes that offer a unique perspective from the writer who had become Donâs confidant, travel companion, witness and friend. They hung out together in the 1970s and between 1979 and 1984 were collaborating, collecting and collating material for a multimedia extravaganza that Don called âThe Projectâ, which was picked up again in 1994. This would tell his story from the inside and from alongside, aiming to glimpse the essence of a cosmic traveller and multicultural âorganicâ musician, from the spiritual high spots to the low points of the jazz life.
The pages on his later years include personal reflections on his contemporary musical travellers and reveals details of his collaboration with John Coltrane.
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The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive. When he says that music is breath he talks of something much bigger than the blow needed to make the trumpets sound. From his prime instrument, the trumpet, to his beloved ângoni via flutes, piano and melodica Don Cherryâs voice is unique; like the man from which it springs, it is instantly recognisable whatever instrument or angle it is coming from.
The Don Cherry Tapes laid the foundation in 1979 of the Cherry Archives which preserve the memory of Don and his extended tribal family. The archive began with a series of taped autobiographical interviews and a box of ephemera and mementoes. Now, 30 years after his death, those transcribed conversations are finally being published, illuminated by Donâs own artworks and augmented by the author Graeme Ewensâ tour journals and contemporaneous notes made over three decades of collaboration.
The material included here is previously unpublished and is a kind of top-and-tail treatment of one of the Jazz Greatâs personal experience, combining autobiographical background alongside his mentor Ornette Coleman with objective reportage from some of his later tours and personal anecdotes that offer a unique perspective from the writer who had become Donâs confidant, travel companion, witness and friend. They hung out together in the 1970s and between 1979 and 1984 were collaborating, collecting and collating material for a multimedia extravaganza that Don called âThe Projectâ, which was picked up again in 1994. This would tell his story from the inside and from alongside, aiming to glimpse the essence of a cosmic traveller and multicultural âorganicâ musician, from the spiritual high spots to the low points of the jazz life.
The pages on his later years include personal reflections on his contemporary musical travellers and reveals details of his collaboration with John Coltrane.
