“This album represents perhaps the purest moment on record of what could be called Cherry’s “hippie” phase, or what the liner notes name his “mystical” period.”
This is a momentous year for Don Cherry. After decades of relative neglect, his legacy – one inextricably shared with his life partner Moki Cherry – has been brought threefold into the limelight by the NYC-based arts organization Blank Forms. The centerpiece is a richly detailed compendium of Don and Moki Cherry’s collaborative life-work, Organic Music Societies (see excerpt published in this issue); running alongside the book there’s the ongoing exhibition of Moki Cherry’s tapestries and ephemera from the Cherry universe at the Blank Forms space in Brooklyn; and to top it off, June sees the release of two previously unissued recordings, The Summer House Sessions and Organic Music Theatre - Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 (OMT).
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