#2461: Sampling Don Cherry

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
The great trumpeter, world music icon, jazz explorer, improviser, and part Choctaw Indian - Don Cherry- died ten years ago this month. On this edition of New Sounds, we'll sample a small fraction of his recorded work, which reaches across a weird and wonderful range of musical idioms and forms. Listen to Cherry's work as Codona - a group with Collin Walcott and the Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos - whose musical flavourings draw from Africa, India, South America and the Middle East. There's also some of the "American Indian jazz" that Cherry played with tenor sax player Jim Pepper. Plus, hear from collaborations with Latif Khan, Adam Rudolph, Hassan Hakmoun, Lou Reed and Talking Heads, among others.

» A Don Cherry biography

PROGRAM # 2461 Don Cherry’s World Music (First aired on Wed.. 10/5/05)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Carla Bley

Escalator Over The Hill

A.I.R. (All India Radio) [4:00]

ECM #839310 , Watt 1802 Available at Amazon.com*

Don Cherry & Latif Khan

Sangam

One Dance [4:00]

Europa JP #2009 Out of Print

Trilok Gurtu

Usfret

Usfret, excerpt [4:30]

CMP #33
www.artist-shop.com

Codona (Colin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos)

Codona

Codona [6:00]

ECM #1132 **
www.ecmrecords.com*

Jim Pepper

Comin’ And Goin’

Squaw Song [5:30]

Island/Antilles #90680
Out of Print, but try E-bay and www.amazon.de
Info about Jim Pepper at www.inmotionmagazine.com

Jai Uttal

Footprints

Footprints [4:00]

Triloka #183 **
www.triloka.com *

Don Cherry w/Aberg & Stenson

Dona Nostra

Prayer [5:00]

ECM #@1448 **
www.ecmrecords.com*

Mandingo Griot Society

Mandingo Griot Society

Sounds From the Bush [4:00]

Flying Fish #70076 Dist. by www.rounder.com*

Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph

Gift Of the Gnawa

Larmame [7:00]

Flying Fish #70571 Dist. by www.rounder.com*

*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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