Don Cherry – Organic Music Society

Don Cherry is about as vital a figure as there is to find in the world of free jazz. He was the man on an endless string of classic Ornette Coleman records -- The Shape of Jazz to Come, Twins, so on and so forth -- and then played on Coleman's later greats like 1971's Science Fiction and Broken Shadows. He also made his name as a frontman, releasing The Avante-Garde, his collaboration with John Coltrane, Complete Communion and other great albums. But Cherry, like so many jazz greats, got even more exploratory as he aged, and 1972's Organic Music Society is as far out there as Cherry ever got…

…The album was recorded with Swedish musicians while Cherry was living in Sweden with wife Moki Karlsson. Cherry lived and played there a long while, and his influence is deep in Swedish jazz circles, but Organic Music Society also reaches beyond that to African, Turkish, and Brazilian instrumentation, Indian religion and philosophy, and even back to American jazz.

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Tracklist

A1 North Brazilian Ceremonial Hymn

A2a Elixir

A2b Manusha Raga Kamboji

B1 Relativity Suite Part 1

B2 Relativity Suite Part 2

Ca Terry's Tune

Cb Hope

Cc The Creator Has A Master Plan

Cd Sidhartha

D1 Utopia & Visions

D2a Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro

D2b Terry's Tune

D3 Resa