1 A.B.F. 	3:03
2 Brotherhood Suite II 	11:08
3 In A Geodetic Dome	4:07
4 Pannonica/Skippy	11:25
5 Brotherhood Suite I Incl. Bra Joe	34:55

Line-up:
Don Cherry – trumpet (pocket), flute (bamboo), piano
Bernt Rosengren, Tommy Koverhult – saxophone (tenor)
Torbjörn Hultcrantz – bass
Leif Wennerström – drums
Henno Tooming - piano

From 1965-85 trumpeter Don Cherry was based in Sweden, where the tracks on this CD were cut between 1969 and 1974. He wrote four of the five selections here. A medley of Thelonious Monk's "Pannonica" and "Skippy" is also included and Cherry interpolates Dollar Brand's "Bra Joe" into his "Brotherhood Suite 1."

Playing with Cherry, who doubles on flute and piano, are several gifted Swedish musicians, the most notable of which is tenorman Bernt Rosengren, who also appears on flute and oboe. This is rich music with colorful improvised work and memorable solos.

Rosengren, before working in a free jazz context, was a very good post bop soloist. He's powerful and creative here; there's some John Coltrane influence in him, but he definitely has developed his own style and his solid musical grounding serves him well.

Usually Cherry plays heatedly, bursting with ideas. However, his most impressive work occurs during "In a Geodetic Dome," a beautiful piece on which his spare, muted soloing is as lovely as anything he's recorded. ---Harvey Pekar, jazztimes.com

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1. ABF Suite, Part 1 
2. ABF Suite, Part 2
3. Another Dome Session

Don Cherry: pocket trumpet, flutes, piano, percussion, vocals; 
Maffy Falay: trumpet, flutes, percussion; 
Bernt Rosengren: tenor saxophone, flutes, percussion (tracks 1 & 2); 
Tommy Koverhult: tenor saxophone, flutes, percussion (tracks 1 & 2), flute (track 3); 
Torbjörn Hultcrantz: bass (tracks 1 & 2); 
Leif Wennerström: drums (tracks 1 & 2); 
Rolf Olsson (probably): bass (track 3); 
Okay Temiz: drums (track 3); 
Children and visiting friends (track 3).

Trumpeter and world-music pioneer Don Cherry had a very special relationship with Sweden, a place he called home for twenty years. And Sweden had a special relationship with Cherry: the country and its musicians recognized the master in their midst, and in 1972 the state-subsidized record company Caprice put out the double album Organic Music Society (which they reissued in 2012). Now with Live in Stockholm, Caprice has gone into its vaults and pulled out three stunning long-form songs from the same era. Beautifully packaged with crisp black-and-white photos and informative liner notes in English, this release offers a full-bodied experience of Cherry's activities during this fruitful period of his musical journey.

The first two tunes—"ABF Suite, Part 1" and "ABF Suite, Part 2"—have their origin in the ensemble Cherry created while teaching a weekly course at The Workers' Educational Association (Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund, or ABF). But this was no ordinary class: his students included the great Swedish tenor saxophonist Bernt Rosengren and members of his quartet, namely fellow tenorist Tommy Koverhult, bassist Torbjorn Hultcrantz, and drummer Leif Wennerström. Another participant was the renowned Turkish trumpeter Maffy Falay, who like Cherry moved to Sweden in the mid-sixties and worked closely with Swedish jazz musicians. In describing the feeling of this ensemble, Rosengren says, "[Don Cherry] came with a new openness. One should not be afraid to break patterns and forms. He came with a completely new way of thinking, we should 'un-learn' everything we knew and start again from scratch, and not worry about mistakes . . . It was a very free and experimental period and we had a lot of fun."

By this point in his career, Cherry had left behind many of the familiar parameters of jazz. For Cherry, a song was not a group of musicians taking solos based on one melody: a song was a fluid entity created on-the-spot, as the ensemble did at the ABF concert. He had also abandoned the "one person, one instrument" norm; he no longer thought of himself solely as a trumpet player, and on this release he is also credited with flutes, piano, percussion, and vocals. Similarly Falay, Rosengren, and Koverhult are also credited with flutes and percussion in addition to their main instruments. Nor was a concert visually static—in collaboration with his wife, visual artist Moki Cherry, Cherry turned the ABF concert into a multimedia happening with elaborate staging, including wafting incense and a background of screens and projections of paintings by Moki.

The festive quality of the concert is reflected in a review by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which proclaimed: "Welcome to Don Cherry's candy store of music! What richness, colors, generosity!" A candy store is a good way to think of these two pieces, which offer a luscious 49 minutes of music. There's a myriad of flavors and sensations, a dancing flow of energy as the stream of ideas and sounds unfold. Different players with different instruments take center stage, following an organic, internal logic specific to this performance. Distinct melodies emerge, but just in slices, which are then fused together, or taken apart, or cheerfully turned inside out. Various motifs arise, perhaps to be picked up by the other musicians, who might then approach things sideways or backward. The dynamics are also up for grabs, a wild thrust of energy suddenly or gradually dropping off into a quieter space, until eventually the silence explodes into a torrent of sound. The mood is a similarly shape-shifting creature, moving from calm to stately to frantic to joyful, and many other hues besides.

Part of the pleasure of this music is that one never knows what's coming next: singing, percussive accents, empty space, flutes like birds, snaking sax lines, even a majestic interlude that conjures up Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain. And it's not always possible to know who's playing what, but in an ensemble like this where energies merge and no one is top dog, individual voices are not the main point. This combination of American, Swedish, and Turkish musicians is an international incident in the best sense of the term: it's a joyful joining of diverse musical worlds and cultures, showing how they can combine into something unified and exciting. The entire concert is fueled by a propulsive, wild-hearted energy that's consistently compelling, offering an excellent example of the fine art of group improvisation.

The third piece comes from a concert that Cherry gave at Stockholm's Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art), an institution known for welcoming avant-garde creativity in all forms. Cherry's concert was part of an exhibition called "Utopia and Vision," and the concert took place in the geodesic dome built by the far-seeing American architect Buckminster Fuller. Just as with the ABF concert, Cherry entered a unique space that brought forth a one-of-a-kind musical organism. A photo of Cherry playing percussion in the dome gives a sense of this special atmosphere: the floor and curving walls are a bright, luminous white, pure and otherworldly as a spaceship. Another important aspect of the concert was the audience participation; the credits include "children and visiting friends," and the dome photo shows Cherry's son Eagle-Eye (a musician himself, and brother of the radiant Neneh Cherry), who is standing next to his father and utterly transfixed by the moving mallets in his father's circle of percussion.

The dome concert has a slightly different configuration from the ABF performance. Cherry, Falay, and Koverhult return, but this time with Swedish bassist Rolf Olsson and the great Turkish drummer Okay Temiz. Temiz provides a different kind of rhythmic foundation, and the song often has a spacious, dreamy feel. Like the ABF concert, this 28 minutes of music travels many distances, including a majestic Cherry solo in a shimmering field of percussion with looping whistles and random voices. Children's voices weave in on occasion, and since Koverhult only plays flute, the instrument has a more prominent role and adds a lofty, transcendent feel. Cherry switches to piano about a third of the way through, creating buoyant lines reminiscent of Vince Guaraldi's classic Charlie Brown soundtracks. The music gradually enters a more contemplative space, with the instruments intertwining in a beautiful, almost mournful tone. This eventually gives way to an intoxicating, escalating energy, which builds to a powerful crescendo incited by Cherry's forceful piano chords. Cherry's vocals ride along the growing energy, a host of primal utterances that float and dance, incite and rouse. In the song's coda, the instruments and vocals drop off, and Cherry's piano motif fades off into the silence of the incandescent white dome.

Don Cherry was a citizen of the world, and the wonderful international groups on Live in Stockholm present aural bouquets from Cherry's multicultural musical landscape. Best of all, these three songs are a shining example of holy playfulness. Amid the rule breaking and mischief making, each piece is infused with a sense of music as sacred activity. These four-dimensional sonic sculptures are praise songs; they create an atmosphere of celebration that explores and brings forth an open, joyful creativity that's infused with a sense of equality. These tunes are a reminder of what humanity is capable of, and an example of the aspiration to work together instead of tearing one another apart. This fine release is permeated with a spirit of harmony, offering a message that's still extremely welcome today. ---Florence Wetzel, allaboutjazz.com

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01. Trumpet (Don Cherry)
02. Multikulti Soothsayer (Don Cherry)
03. Flute (Don Cherry)
04. Birdboy (Don Cherry)
05. Melodica (Don Cherry)
06. Dedication to Thomas Mapfumo (Don Cherry)
07. Pettiford Bridge (Don Cherry)
08. Piano/Trumpet (Don Cherry)
09. Until the Rain Comes (Peter Apfelbaum)
10. Divinity-Tree (Peter Apfelbaum)
11. Rhumba Multikulti (Don Cherry/Robert Huffman/Joshua Jones)
12. Multikulti Soothsayer Player (Don Cherry) 4

Personnel:
* Don Cherry (Trumpet, Doussn’’ gouni, Voice, Flute, Melodica and Piano)
* Frank Serafine (Synthesizer) - 2
* Anthony Hamilton (Voice) - 2
* John L. Price (Drum Programming) - 4
* Mark Loudon Sims (Bass) - 4
* David Cherry (Synthesizer) - 4
* Bob Stewart (Tuba) - 6,7
* Nana Vasconcelos (Percussion) - 6
* Carlos Ward (Alto Saxophone) - 6,7
* Ed Blackwell (Drums) - 6,7
* Karl Berger (Marimba and Voice) - 6,11
* Peter Apfelbaum (Tenor Saxophone, Cowbell, Marimba, Bells, Gong and Piano) - 6,9-11
* Ingrid Sertso (Voice) - 6,9,11
* Bill Ortiz (Trumpet and Voice) - 9,10
* James Harvey (Trombone) - 9,10
* Jeff Cressman (Trombone and Voice) - 9,10
* Tony Jones (Tenor Saxophone) - 9,10
* Jessica Jones (Tenor Saxophone) - 9,10
* Peck Allmond (Baritone Saxophone) - 9,10
* Will Bernard (Guitar) - 9,10
* Stan Franks (Guitar) - 9,10
* Bo Freeman (Bass) - 9,10
* Joshua Jones (Drums and Percussion, Voice) - 9-11
* Deszon X. Clairbone (Drums) - 9,10
* Robert Huffman (Percussion and Voice) - 9-11
* Frank Ekeh (Percussion and Voice) - 9,10
* Allen Ginsberg (Backing Vocals) - 11
* Claudia Engelhart (Backing Vocals) - 11
* Karen Knight (Backing Vocals) – 11

It's obvious right from the title that Multikulti is another of Don Cherry's trademark fusions of jazz and world music, this time around with a heavy African influence. Cherry is joined on several tracks by members of multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble (plus the full band on "Until the Rain Comes" and "Divinity-Tree"), and their shared affinity for African music is what produces most of the album's best moments. (Listeners who prefer Cherry in a stricter jazz context are hereby warned.) The percolating, polyrhythmic grooves of "Dedication to Thomas Mapfumo," "Until the Rain Comes" (parts of it, anyway), "Divinity-Tree," and "Rhumba Multikulti" make for an infectious celebration of pan-cultural awareness that fully lives up to the promise of the album's title. Other highlights include the spare bounce of "Birdboy" and the more traditional free bop of "Pettiford Bridge." There are a few unfortunate indulgences, however. The brief instrumental sketches that punctuate the album actually detract from the flow and consistency, and if you've never been a fan of poetry recitations over jazz backing, the ones here won't change your mind. A few cuts just don't quite go anywhere, and at 12 minutes, "Until the Rain Comes" -- despite some undeniably great sections -- just starts to meander after a while. There's definitely enough good music here to make Multikulti worthwhile for fans of Cherry's world fusion explorations, but it isn't quite consistent enough to become essential. ---Steve Huey, Rovi

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1.    "Awake Nu" - 6:55
2.    "Taste Maker" - 6:48
3.    "The Thing" - 5:50
4.    "There is the Bomb" - 4:51
5.    "Unite" - 17:48

    Don Cherry - cornet
    Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone, piccolo
    Henry Grimes - bass
    Ed Blackwell – drums

Where Is Brooklyn was Don Cherry's final album for Blue Note, and it returned to the quartet format of Complete Communion, this time featuring Pharoah Sanders on tenor sax along with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ed Blackwell. Here, Cherry abandons his concept of recording all the album's compositions as side-long medleys; rather, each is treated separately, with spaces in between the tracks. There wasn't a need to integrate the compositions by periodically returning to their themes, so perhaps that's why Cherry doesn't really focus as much on bringing out his compositions this time around. Where Is Brooklyn is much more about energy and thoughtful group interaction than memorable themes, and so there's just a little something missing in comparison to Cherry's prior albums, even though they did also emphasize the qualities on display here. Nonetheless, it's still a fine record for what it does concentrate on; Sanders is in typically passionate form, and the rest of the ensemble members have already honed their interplay to a pretty sharp edge. It's worth hearing, even if it isn't as essential as Complete Communion or Symphony for Improvisers. ---Steve Huey, Rovi

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A1 	Cherryco	6:45
A2 	Focus On Sanity	12:07
B1 	The Blessing	7:50
B2 	The Invisible	4:08
B3 	Bemsha Swing	5:02

Bass – Percy Heath (tracks: A2, B2, B3)
Bass – Charlie Haden (tracks: A1, B1)
Drums – Ed Blackwell
Soprano Saxophone – John Coltrane (tracks: B1, B2)
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B3)
Trumpet – Don Cherry

Tracks 1, 3 Recorded June 28th 1960.
Tracks 2, 4, 5 Recorded July 8th 1960.
All tracks recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York. 

This album is rightfully co-credited to Don Cherry (trumpet), who ably trades blows with John Coltrane (tenor/soprano sax) throughout. The Avant-Garde also boasts the debut studio recording of Coltrane playing soprano sax -- on "The Blessing" -- in addition to his continuing advancements on tenor. Although these tracks were recorded during the summer of 1960, they remained shelved for nearly six years. Joining Coltrane and Cherry are essentially the rest of the members of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, Ed Blackwell (drums) and Charlie Haden (bass) on "Cherryco" and "The Blessing," as well as Percy Heath (bass) on the remaining three selections. This is fitting, as over half of the album consists of early Coleman compositions. Coltrane's integration into this band works with some extraordinarily fresh results. Neither Cherry nor Coltrane makes any radical departures on this album; however, it's the ability of each to complement the other both in terms of modal style and -- perhaps more importantly -- texture that lends heavily to the success of these sides. Cherry's brisk and somewhat nasal intonations on "The Blessing" mimic those of Miles Davis, albeit with shorter flourishes and heavily improvised lines. When combined with Coltrane's well-placed -- if not somewhat reserved -- solos, the mutual value of both is dramatically increased. Blackwell -- the only other musician besides Cherry and Coltrane to be featured on every track -- provides some non-conventional percussive accompaniment. His contributions to "The Blessing" and workout on the aptly titled "Focus on Sanity" are primal. ---Lindsay Planer, AllMusic Review

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