Don Cherry on Albert Ayler, Part One

[@larrytaylor5565]

I was very fortunate to meet Don Cherry in Cleve Ohio, when he was giving a concert at Univ Circle approx 1984, 1985.. He had Blackwell, Haden, and D. Redman in his group. I only spoke to him for about 2 or 3 minutes just us two but i must say, he was different, i knew i was speaking to someone highly spiritual, he had a wiry magnetic appreance about him. I gave him some directions about the area after i mentioned how i enjoyed his music and how it affected me, he was a very humble beautiful person. R.I.P.

[@nahumballard9678]

I met Don cherry in Copenhagen in 64 and he was a friend to me never forget he had me to play in a jam session cousin Mary. He was great guy showed me around copenhagen

[@adamtabl]

thank you for posting this...look forward to hearing the rest when you canpost it...don was not only a great artist and human, but a deep teacher for those who could hear and feel his spirit

[@brianbousquet2136]

thanks so much for posting this,its a blessing to hear it!

[@chronwell1]

I mean this guy , Don Cherry . He is a force of nature. I thank the MOSt High Lord for giving him to us for a while. He played for the love of the Lord, just like he so poignantly and truthfully says Albert did. Rest in Perfection to both high hearts!

[@jxw137]

he exorcizes that explosiveness on stage. its what allows him to be so calm. he sounds enlightened and thoughtful

[@RuneLacroix]

Very touching

[@Hal9000ize]

Very relaxing voice

[@mleuis]

Part 2?

[@jaimepaullamb]

neither albert ayler nor don cherry were heroin addicts. they may have run into it here and there, due to its rampant use in the inner-city black community, particularly among jazz musicians, at the time, but nothing you'd call a heroin addict. just thought i'd add that since there's been some commenting about it. as for don's voice: he sounds like he's at peace - spiritually. just like he sounds on his horn.

[@emilianoturazzi]

According to Ornette Coleman Don Cherry, Haden and Blackwell were addicted, at least when they used to play with him, early in the 60s. This was the major reason why he untied the quartet and in 1962 trio he changed the lineup

[@jongreenbaum250]

Cherry's heroin addiction comes up in Viv Albertine's autobiography.

[@TheJazzmandel]

Yes, Don Cherry used heroin. But it is way wrong to reduce his complex personality, enormous comprehension of music, global network of contacts, vast influence and artistic brilliance to his drug use. Cherry was an explorer, innovator and major melodicist. I never experienced his personality as "explosive" -- and little of his music sounds like that, or in any way harsh or domineering. I'm grateful to have met him (interviewed for Down Beat in '78) and heard him as often as I could.

[@DBChirot]

i knew Don and lived with him and his family in both Sweden and Long Island City--we first met 1969--knew him closely rest of his life--

[@muchospantaloons]

this is sooooo ASMR!

[@jonathanfogelman4978]

what does that mean?

[@Vingul]

​@@jonathanfogelman4978 it's a gross or at least weird way of saying it's comfortable to listen to (his voice presumably, though some people get a kick out of mouth noises etc. for some reason)

[@dariusmolark6820]

very nice

[@blackrocknutt]

not online--only on the 9 disc box set of Ayler's music

[@jxw137]

enlightening

[@urshauri2286]

sehr schön gruss

[@mccabbq]

@soulbleed9999 Is that a poem?

[@sashakingcrimson187]

sasha king crimson .

[@11joshua]

guess what? he was a heroin addict his whole adult life. so that might help to calm him down.