DON CHERRY
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, World Fusion, Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Hard Bop, Classic Fusion, African Fusion, Acid Jazz • United States

American avant-/free jazz trumpeter, born Nov 18 1936 in Oklahoma City; died Oct 19 1995 in Malaga, Spain. His career began with a long association with Ornette Coleman. Father of Jan Cherry, David Ornette Cherry and Eagle-Eye Cherry and stepfather of Neneh Cherry. from discogs 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 read more...