DON CHERRY - Cherry Jam LP Neo-Crust awareness as agony

awareness as agony

Joy as an Act of Resistance

This sought-after album is the way the composer tried to tell us what were the experimental and futuristic sounds of the old media world

The first half of the record is tuning into the moving forces of the mountain - first the Rains

DON CHERRY - Cherry Jam LP Neo-Crust awareness as agony"Hip as hell" The Wire "Their output doesnt suggest an incendiary avant garde so much as an extended post bop language, cool tempered and abidingly hip." WBGO "It captures a really interesting period in his career This is my favorite sound. It is just so chill and smart and just cool." Robin Hilton, NPR Music Cherry Jam sets the scene in 60s Copenhagen, a city which at the time proved instrumental in the hosting and development of jazz musicians both