Don Cherry

• Mini LP-replica packaging with Obi strip

• JAPANESE EDITION

After having released Don Cherry's Cherry Jam as a limited Record Store Day title in the Autumn of 2020, Gearbox presents this essential release on specialist Japanese Edition vinyl and CD.

‘Cherry Jam’ sets the scene in Copenhagen, a city which proved instrumental in the hosting and development of jazz musicians both local and American. Cherry had performed and recorded there with Archie Shepp in 1963, toured with Albert Ayler in the autumn of 1964, and would go on to have a residency at the hip Cafe Montmartre in 1966.

Our recording is taken from the original tape of a 1965 radio broadcast, programmed by Denmark’s national radio station (Danmarks Radio.) It was in this same year that Cherry? would record his landmark Blue Note recording, ‘Complete Communion’, with Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri on tenor saxophone, Henry Grimes on double bass, and Edward Blackwell on drums, as well as feature on fellow American expatriate George Russell’s live album ‘George Russell Sextet at Beethoven Hall’. This particular line-up however, consisting of Danish musicians, has never been heard after its original broadcast date, and neither have the three original Don Cherry compositions that are featured on the recording credits.

PERSONNEL:

• Don Cherry - cornet
• Mogens Bollerup - tenor saxophone
• Atli Bjørn - piano
• Benny Nielsen - bass
• Simon Koppel - drums

Recorded at Danmarks Radio Studio 2, Copenhagen, October 1965

TRACKS:

• 01 The Ambassador from Greenland
• 02 You Took Advantage of Me
• 03 Priceless
• 04 Nigeria