Don Cherry News

The Kids in the Hall make their long-awaited return to series television in January with their dark comedy, Death Comes to Town , the centrepiece of CBC -TV a s winter lineup.

Grapes made two trips to the set of "Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story," a biopic of the Hockey Night in Canada personality's life.

All About Jazz is celebrating Don Cherry's birthday today! Don Cherry Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1936 and raised in Los Angeles, where he first began to play the trumpet and later piano.

Albertan Colin Oberst has won CBC's hockey anthem competition. Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry announced last night that the 37-year-old musician and elementary school teacher beat 15,000 other entries to have his song chosen to begin the Saturday-night hockey broadcast.

Country & Eastern An alluring aspect of this record, even before the first notes are heard is that it is simply titled Live .

DJ Gilles Peterson's stash of jazz album cover art has been made into a book. Charlotte Cripps flips through some of the best Click here for more rare jazz album cover art A collection of rare jazz cover artwork of the 1970s has been brought together by the DJ Gilles Peterson and independent jazz label boss Stuart Baker of Soul Jazz Records.

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to commence our season-long celebration of the work and life of multi-instrumentalist and composer Don Cherry .

I watched the Pens Saturday night on 'Hockey Night in Canada,' and it seems to me that Don Cherry doesn't have anything good to say about the Pens.

It was cool in Bombay that July in 1985, or was it 1986. Somehow the year does not seem to matter quite as much as it did when the phenomenon first occurred.

It was enough to make a premier blush - even one who's had to have his elbows up in the political corners at the legislature for more than two decades.

With his breakthrough American hit "Save Tonight," alternative singer/songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry became the latest member of his family to stir the music world: his father was avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, and his sister was alternative rap pioneer Neneh Cherry.

Maverick percussionist Trilok Gurtu on his latest album 'Massical' PHOTO: MURALI KUMAR K. He's the wandering minstrel of our times.

I'm interviewing Sonny Rollins later today for a Philadelphia Inquirer feature to run on Sunday, September 20.

ADD DON Cherry to the list of dignitaries and celebrities visiting Terrace this weekend in celebration of the Kraft Hockeyville pre-season game between the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Islands Sept.

Chris M. Slawecki has been published in music industry and related publications for nearly 25 years and has served AllAboutJazz.com as Senior Editor since 1997.

Ingvaldsen combines styles and influences ranging from Miles Davis to African polyrhythms.

Ingvaldsen combines styles and influences ranging from Miles Davis to African polyrhythms.

Tony Vacca is an innovative American percussionist with Jazz and World Music roots going back to 1972.

This is not dinner music, nor is it Last Tango in Paris , though there are actually hints of tango flitting around the mix.

Leading lights of Scandinavian free jazz with a name conjuring up thoughts of 1950's B-Grade horror films, The Thing is made up of MatsGustafsson on tenor saxophone, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten on bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums.