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Point of Departure

“Ultimately this is a record of people at play.”

Gabriel Bristow

This is a momentous year for Don Cherry. After decades of relative neglect, his legacy – one inextricably shared with his life partner Moki Cherry – has been brought threefold into the limelight by the NYC-based arts organization Blank Forms. The centerpiece is a richly detailed compendium of Don and Moki Cherry’s collaborative life-work, Organic Music Societies (see excerpt published in this issue); running alongside the book there’s the ongoing exhibition of Moki Cherry’s tapestries and ephemera from the Cherry universe at the Blank Forms space in Brooklyn; and to top it off, June sees the release of two previously unissued recordings, The Summer House Sessions and Organic Music Theatre - Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 (OMT).

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6 other reviews

The Quietus

“Most radical (and most indicative of Don’s nascent intentions) is the insistence that the music be communal and solo-free.”

Uncut

“These 1968 sessions are looser, aesthetically pan-global, embracing a nascent spirituality alongside a cartwheeling energy.”

Jazz Journal

“Capturing brilliant and organic improvisation, The Summer House Sessions offers a fascinating glimpse into Cherry’s world of musical research and experimentation.”

Jazz Magazine

“Car ces “Summer House Sessions” (magnifiquement) enregistrées par l’ingénieur du son Göran Freese n’ont absolument rien perdu de leur force libertaire, de leur inspiration rieuse et de leur invention mélodique.”

Free Jazz Blog

“The music demonstrates Cherry's aspiration for a universal language through music, incorporating many ideas and rhythms, all integrated in one joyous and communal interaction.”

Dusted

“It’s like a looser version of the music Cherry made for Blue Note in the 1960s, free and joyous, but the references to Anatolian folk music point it towards the music he would do with Okay Temiz and Johnny Dyani.”