Don Cherry mixtape

Beautiful Swimmers from Washington D.C. present a brilliant tribute mix to Don Cherry, the multi-instrumentalist best known for playing the cornet & pocket trumpet with the likes of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Whether this is an introduction to his vast catalogue of world jazz recordings or just a new way of hearing some of it, we hope you enjoy it.

Music by Don Cherry and friends. Mix by Beautiful Swimmers

1. Don Cherry - Brown Rice
2. Old & New Dreams - Song For The Whales
3. Trilok Gurtu - Shangri La/Usfret
4. Don Cherry - Moving Pictures For The Ear
5. Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Air Mail
6. Don Cherry - Journey of Malarepa
7. Don Cherry - Brilliant Action/Amejelo (drum solo Ed Blackwell)
8. Sonny Murray - Black Art (poem Amiri Baraka)
9. Terry Riley, Don Cherry, Karl Berger - Piece 1, Koln Concert 1975
10. Don Cherry - Kamapa Chenno
11. Don Cherry - Love Train
12. Tullio Di Piscopo - Stop Bajon
13. Bengt Berger - Tongsi
14. Old & New Dreams - Guinea

If you want to find out more about Cherry, this feature from The Wire magazine is a good place to start: http://www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php3?read=mandel4