Don Cherry
Orient
Affinity (UK) 1982
AFFD 82 (2LP) gatefold jacket
sleeve : VG+(SPSE: heavy scuffing on one corner, some scuffing on part of the side)
media : EX/EX,EX/EX(some light surface noise in places)
Don Cherry, a master of ethnic jazz who pursued new jazz with Ornette Coleman, whom he met in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, then moved to New York and became a pioneer of avant-garde jazz with Coleman, and then moved to Europe in the late 1960s to create cosmopolitan music while traveling the Third World. This is a 2-LP album featuring live recordings from sessions held in Paris from 1971 to 1972. Sides A/B feature Han Bennink (ds, perc, acc, vo) and Moki Cherry (tamboura), while Sides C/D feature Johnny Dyani (b) and Okay Temiz (ds, perc). Throughout the album, a torrent of sounds bursts from Don Cherry's pocket trumpet, with percussion leading to eternal and cosmic truths from chaos, creating ultimate ethnic jazz. This is an extremely important work that cannot be dismissed simply as a fusion of free jazz and ethnic music. Tears flow at the moving moment in C1... This is truly Don Cherry's music. This is a reissued UK pressing from 1982.
A1: Orient - Part.1
A2: Orient - Part.2