Don Cherry News

By September of 1966, the so-called "free jazz" movement was in full swing. It had been nearly six years since Ornette Coleman's highly controversial landmark residency at the Five Spot.

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.

Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean, left, will host the 13-hour Hockey Day in Canada from a specially built rink in Summerside, P.E.I., and will have commentator Don Cherry, right, by his side.

Prince Edward Island will be the featured backdrop for more than 13 hours of broadcasting when CBC mounts its annual Hockey Day In Canada telecast Feb.

Musicians constantly dialogue with two entities: themselves and tradition. Music is rarely ever totally new, but builds on what has come before, adding extensions and responses.

Born in Milan in 1929, Giorgio Gaslini has been one of the major figures of European jazz for six decades, although remaining virtually unknown in Britain.

In 1989, Charlie Haden inaugurated the Montreal Jazz Festival Invitation Series.

Improvised music post-Wynton has been a barren wasteland of record company manufactured 'young lions' or all-star jam sessions.

Free jazz denotes an idiom and has little to do with freedom. John Litweiler's The Freedom Principle chronicles how Leo Smith, born in Leland, Mississippi, a hub for the blues, entered into the service , discovered Don Cherry, moved to Chicago, joined the AACM, and developed into a standard for lyrical contrasts and space.

According to a University of Michigan study, the reason men loathe shopping is because of their prehistoric past.

In 1972 I founded the Creative Music Studio with Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman.

Tonight the air is full of revolt. Not just because of the fiery music on offer, or the defiant spirit of '68 embodied in the calmly radical physical presence of Henri Texier, the revolutionary elder statesman.

Pharoah Sanders' Elevation was recorded in 1973, three years after Sanders' appearance on Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda , and shares much of the ambiance and sonic palette of that classic album.

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.