Don Cherry/Blood Ulmer/Rashied Ali

[@willhermes1]

I interviewed Rashied in 2008 just before he died, and he showed me this clip on his Mac. He was psyched that it was up on KZbin. Thanks for posting!

[@robertpowell9618]

Wish I could have been on bass for this session but I guess I am too young. Don't know who is better, Ali or Jones. They're the best! Cherry, James Ulmer. Thanks for taking some time out for the Masters

[@RomanSkateboarding]

Here I am, reading Will Hermes's book "Loves Goes to Buildings on Fire", checking up on everything he mentions and now I see an 11 years old comment by the man himself. Bloody great book, if anyone's wondering, by the way.

[@zdubz9260]

It truly warms my heart to see an abundance of people who appreciate this music. Even though it may be a minority of the general public it's still very special and it feels like we're all coming together to celebrate these beautiful musicians. For the wonderful comments and for this video post (among many others) I'm eternally grateful Peace&Love

[@yahyaabdul-majid7987]

I worked with those guys, were forming a group with Rashid and Henry Grimes just before Shied passed.I also was living with Blood,Don Cherry open up NY for me, starting with gig at Circle in the Square

[@Themancebo1]

From beginning to end, this musical conversation makes perfect sense. For those who feel they don't understand the language of this music may indicate that they have not been listening in earnest to the cries for Freedom heard round the world.

[@hughman9975]

What a beautiful expression! :)

[@bluewaterbluzmusic]

Go in Peace Rashied! Many a night I spent in your club Ali's Alley down in Soho, NYC before all the designer shops and high end yahoo's moved in to gentrificate the area. Jaki Bayard, Hammiet Bluett.. and many many more.. you are already Missed!

[@woodyar92]

Saw Don perform while studying abroad in a Copenhagen, Denmark, nightclub, 1972 & years later while visiting NYC with wife walking. He was polite and gracious.

[@dasglasperlenspiel10]

Thank you for posting this very challenging music. I don't listen to this kind of thing all the time, but the older i get, the more important it seems to occasionally open my mind up and see what it can do. This music is very good for mind-challenging! Give it a chance! These guys a re doing something real!

[@El_Bicho_Feo]

the segment w/Rashied on congas & Don on doussn'gouni is BRILLIANT!!! so deep...

[@MatForstater]

Deeply appreciate this. Three virtuosos at the very top of the form! Blood would also collaborate with Rashied Ali’s son, the bass player Amin Ali.

[@moontriangle]

sweet, free-wheeling stuff. and beautiful to hear Don Cherry speaking on the sacrifices he made. i'm so glad he stayed in it. may he rest in peace.

[@dirsame]

Peace and blessing brother Rashied Ali and Brother Ulmer two of the best Muslim muscians. Aslama aleykum. and Rashied alhum Rahma rahimeen

[@JeffreyMulac8]

The first time I heard Rashied Ali soloing on Coltrane's Sun Ship my brain almost melted. I was 18. I am a drummer and R.A. is one of my heroes. All you idiots that don't think this is music need to expand your music intellect beyond Kenny G. These guys are titans of jazz. Rashied is comping and trading 3's in heaven now.

[@begleysbeatbakery]

Elvin was the drummer on Sun Ship not Rashied

[@CarlosBJones-cv1cb]

I've been listening to Rashied for decades,,,,,,LOVE his playing. I've studied and played jazz drums for many moons, and I'm humbled by Rashied. He was a beautiful player...TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! THANX FOR POSTING .

[@me47915]

I was fortunate enough to see rashid Ali live, back in the late 60s or early 70s. Boy,What I would do to see that again!!!!!!

[@MrDuckman21]

Thank you eronfilm for the posting on criticizing music. Don Cherry of course is one of the great horn players of all time. There is constant exploration in music, the 60s a real testament to that. Musicians explore then re-define themselves a result of discovery from that exploration. Don has put me in total oneness with music in following his exploration. One may not appreciate ever place the exploration has been but it cannot be discounted.

[@euskir]

This is no music, this is magic! Esto no es música, ¡esto es magia!

[@TheRaverent]

Glad this canal find me, and glad you shared this incredible concrete with us. Thank you

[@hanskovisser2549]

so softening my heart, but not diminishing my energy, i m learning, inspired.

[@donaldraby2892]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I don’t understand why people find this challenging as it’s just great music!

[@EndlessNot1]

Luckily i got to see Don Cherry perform with "Codona" with Colin Walcott and Nana Vasconcelos back in the 80's...great trio, also "Old & New Dreams" with, Dewy Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell,sadly Ed, Don and Colin are no longer with us, as well as Rashied Ali whom i never got a chance to witness in concert, of course the great James Blood i've witnessed in performance..

[@tinatammaro1694]

me, too...nothing compares to this musicians

[@antiguoautomata]

wow! this is so great! This three together!!! Unbelievable

[@villesoderbaum]

This footage comes from a documentary that was shown on Swedish television. I don't know if the documentary was a Swedish production, but it was very interesting and it had lots of shots from Don's time in Sweden, with all the beautiful textile applications that Moki had done.

[@gioni]

OK.. If I'm not mistaken, this program was called "Don Cherry : Det Aer inte min music (It is not my music)," directed by Urban Lasson for a Swedish TV, 1978(motion picture). Thanks for sharing.

[@michaelmorphites6733]

Thank you

[@trombonisteau]

rashied remained so young throughout his life; just goes to show you: music is ageless!

[@felixv8728]

very beautiful combination of trumpet and guitar

[@msxeno]

Been a fan of these guys forever! Great stuff! 8)

[@RogerMFox-vw5cm]

...Great post... Don Cherry Lives... Rashied Ali Lives...4~Ever... Peace, Fox

[@Alino17]

Beautiful intimate video, thank you. I love Cherry, Ulmer and Ali

[@ralphsilat]

I'm a fan and I say THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!

[@Francesco6961]

Thank you so much for sharing! This is EPIC!!!

[@frazappix]

Fantastic stuff - thanks for this rare post. While some will appreciate its true worth, others will rant - not having a clue what it's about. They should find something they like rather than run down what they don't understand.

[@JeffreyMulac8]

---Woops, I got Sun Ship mixed up with Stellar Regions-when Ali played and soloed. I have a special admiration for Rashied Ali, even drumming mags rarely mention his greatness. Elvin was obviously a genius

[@bebopple]

the spirit of life... thank you

[@surfnsarangi]

Wonderful film of these legendary wizards!

[@LodoGrdzak]

Its always the kiss of death to show the crowd during a jazz performance. Particularly an avant garde perofrmance. Even if they're into it, they're lost in contemplation and thus look bored or dumbfounded.

[@avantgarde423]

Wonderful video! Cheers from Italy!

[@JazzmanJibilla]

Mind blowing stuff. Great communication between the players.

[@JeffreyMulac8]

Woops to Craiglend. Mea Culpa. I looked at my CD's and I was thinking of Stellar Regions, where Ali played alone. Ali and Jones both played on Meditations. Was "Stellar" the first record that Alice Coltrane played with John? Thanks, and check other new young jazz drumming giants like Tyshawn Sorey or Jamire Williams.

[@kyleinstereo]

Thanks. Would love to see the full documentary.

[@jazzaheadandbehind]

Thank you so much for this. Its so free and so hypnotic

[@trombonisteau]

@BennyGaberMusic if you're talking about around the 8 min mark, then i'd suggest "grazing dreams" by colin walcott with john abercrombie (ECM)...if you're talking about the middle, i'd suggest "tales of captain black" by james blood ulmer on on Artists' House (out of print)

[@shizzy35]

Excellent free jazz interchange

[@erikloots87]

This is not music!!! Hihihi :) No this is absolutely fantastic, maybe even beyond music

[@nobodady1]

Ulmer's an interesting cat. He plays like he never learned to play the guitar. That is the first impression. But you do hear basic blues and funk inflections sort of stumbling out of a blur of notes lasting not quite long enough to be identified as definite pitches. And the notes are all bunched together in an unusual way. You're not hearing be-bop vocabulary at all. But you do hear this great guitar tone and texture out of which the blues will pop up, like a swimmer coming up for air.

[@amymills8817]

have you ever listened to him play on anything else? His playing is incredibly diverse, even among one record. You could Don Cherry sounds like he "never leanred to play trumpet" which is horribly problematic thing to say. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqDKYpmKnrF1npo

[@navmanshack1579]

@@amymills8817 HIPSTER ALERT

[@gbxpert]

It's harmelodic funk, ever listen to Ornette?

[@plackbus]

Thanks so much for this, a real treasure.

[@Mynameisfritz]

I understand that it can be hard to enjoy that just by listening, but here you can even see what's going on - that's great. I like it. It's neither noise or Jazz, let's think about 'sound' here - and maybe sound just doesn't follow the categories in which we like to think. It has been there long before us... If you don't like it you might have a totally different taste. :-)

[@bmuhamad]

The art and discipline of the music.

[@VomitPinata]

This is REAL fuckin' nice. Thanks, Weas.

[@cometa1958]

Thank. Great video and great music.

[@erikheddergott5514]

Thanks for posting.

[@MahsaSaeidi]

god bless you beautiful drummer

[@ryanaaxxx]

how am I suppose to leave my house and go to class after watching this? I just want to play

[@jeezwop]

like the closeup of Don speaking. Nice video.

[@swckswck]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@bringupthesun8986]

Where can you watch this whole movie please?

[@barry9080]

This is excellent, thanks.

[@supremetruth9032]

The principal focus upon which they are all fixed ... Unity in Freedom !!!

[@martymcmillen]

This is music for sure! Some people just have to open their ears and better yet their minds a tad:)

[@Merstheman]

RIP Rashied.... Good stuff man

[@md770]

Rashied Ali is a hero of mine,and I appreciate his music, free jazz is an aquired taste but you have to just wrap your head around the cocept of what free jazz is you have to take small bites, then increase the servings. I never understood it but eventually I heard the music

[@nimaorang]

This is amazing... anyone know the title of the documentary?

[@PaoloWeckl]

great video, thank u for posting!

[@RogerMFox-vw5cm]

...Rashied Ali Lives 4~Ever...

[@rasjvon]

your videos on your page are really cool DUDE

[@KingDreRule]

this is outstanding

[@DKHolbrook11]

Lovely stuff...

[@mplandis7080]

thank you so much for this!

[@Beauxdeauxfinglok]

Lovely as all hell.

[@mrfish4lyfe]

awesome video!

[@MrDuckman21]

To clarify some past poistings Yes, Elvin is on Sunship, Ali also on the original "Interstellar Space",

[@gioni]

They've never recorded any album together. But, there might be a documentary with this show made by a Swedish TV program somewhere.. 1978.

[@SoundtheTrumpet2023]

Love it!!!

[@PeterMenardonpremier]

awesome thanks for posting

[@dharam108]

I LOVE NY I LOVE DON CHERRY (and now have a new found aprreciation for Ullmer and Ali). Douss'n Gouni and Guitar?....HOT! Great video. Where is this from? Sweden? What's the name and can I get a copy, somehow? In Gratitude, Dharam

[@danmeyersonVideo]

thank you so much for sharing this gem! what year?

[@cameroncoleman3400]

I agree 1 million percent

[@akiv2479]

Woah...this is really fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing! Any idea when this is from?

[@BongoFury33]

Great stuff, is this early 70's?

[@retobuehrer3094]

i love D.Cherry, also the old Guitar dervi sch J.B.Ullmer

[@eddibble]

SUPERGROUP one word one love

[@elahem6940]

is this a part of a larger film? Id be really interested to see more

[@Tbro13oo]

this is This, This, This good.

[@richardleedrums]

This is not music.... ... it's just pure genius.

[@burningrabbitacres8330]

this is a weapon of mass elation, fool boychild in a compromised land. damn...

[@mmeissonnier]

Just beautiful ! WHere does this footage comes from ?

[@hfmfelix]

A animação da galera vendo tá muito engraçado! as expressões do público hahaha muito bom

a cara das pessoas! rs

[@BennyGaberMusic]

Can somebody give me names of musicians or bands that sound like the second part of the video??

[@Bendoengbanaang]

Good stuff!!! Don's cheeks are the scariest I ever saw :|!

[@vectortrio]

fucking awesome...Don Cherry is incredible.

[@robertlawson682]

Is there any audio of this out there? I would love to hear more...thanks for uploading this!

[@ericnormand5349]

Where this from? I want the orinal tapes to release on cd !!!!!

[@bringupthesun8986]

I want to know also :(..

[@hemligaskolan]

Looks like swedish television... maybe some time from the 90's?

[@ericnormand5349]

it's older then this...69-70 maybe

[@bidiHumbidi]

Don Cherry, James Blood Ulmer, Rashied Ali - thank god for these medicine men. - People who don't dig this probably need 5 sessions chromatique colonic irrigation, or a good old fart.

[@gaylenhalbert4391]

"Medicine men". Yes!

[@ryanaaxxx]

roflroflroflroflrofl love it

[@LivingwithoutAir912]

Where is this taken from? I'd love to own it

[@Markus_Breuss]

muy bueno !!

[@whirlawaysteven]

rashied!!! good night dear sir.

[@ronkopald]

Fucking precious cargo. These guys are on the short list of reasons why I don't go on a killing spree... Don Cherry, Ali, and Blood Ulmer, together?!!!!???? O.M.F.G.

[@alexsalinas32381]

Awesome Drummers from that period of Avant Garde or whatever it is called are always mind opening and fearless. Or atleast from what I've been blessed to hear in my short life. Seems there is a certain time frame from the past like for Fusion and other forms of Jazzier and especially improvisational styles. Almost like they could dissapear someday and people will only have weird abused exploited child entertainers to look at. What is more abstract in culture? Perhaps one is more visual.

[@CosmicPrimitive]

yum

[@speedygonzoles]

Rashied ali is awsome on the drums.