„May it live up to my imagination!“
ein kleines neues flowflowmusikrätsel, bei dem es nichts zu gewinnen gibt ausser, bei einigen stammlesern dieses blogs, ein quantum vorfreude.
Wenn mir jemand von diesem Archivfund erzählt hätte, hätte ich mit Verwunderung und leichten Zweifeln reagiert. Ein spannendes weiteres Kapitel aus der Reihe imaginärer Alben? Aber am 6. November ist es soweit. Wenn ich es schon so spannend mache: ich werde es besprechen, und die Nikolauslisten könnten etwas anders aussehen. Die Erstveröffentlichung eines Konzerts aus dem Jahre 1977. Freunde dieser Musik müssen sich nur das Cover ansehen, um der Sache auf die Spur zu kommen. Morgen erinnere ich an ein Album, das in diesem Jahr sein zehnjähriges Bestehen erlebt und nie den „Klassikerstatus“ erreicht hat, den es in meinen Ohren verdient hat. Es hat ein nicht minder betörendes Cover – und transportiert meine damalige, stark autobiographisch gefärbte Vorstellung in den Spätsommer 2026. In jenem September 2016 stellte Jan Reetze „Goodbye To Language“ von Daniel Lanois vor.
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Lorenz
Don Cherry – Sunrise, liebe Grüsse Lorenz
Michael
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Wewantsounds presents the first official release of a legendary 1977 concert, capturing Don Cherry, Collin Walcott and Leon Thomas in their only documented performance together, joined for part of the night by the rest of Oregon. Long circulating among a few Cherry fans, Sunrise is a hypnotic forerunner to Codona, newly remastered, with Moki Cherry artwork and new liner notes by Jason Weiss.
Wewantsounds issues the first official release of a legendary 1977 performance, capturing Don Cherry, Collin Walcott and Leon Thomas in the only documented meeting of the three. Recorded live on March 5th, 1977, at Pease Auditorium in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the set has circulated for decades among a small number of Cherry fans. The full concert now arrives, licensed by the Don Cherry Estate and producer James Quinlan, with Moki Cherry artwork and new liner notes by Jason Weiss.
Cherry’s influence has grown steadily over the years, as new generations of listeners continue to uncover the breadth of his global musical vision. Sunrise catches him in a particularly fertile late-1970s stretch, the years when the American trumpeter folded Eastern spiritual concepts and African traditions into the philosophy he called Organic Music.
The timing matters: the concert took place barely a month after Cherry took part in the recording of Collin Walcott’s ECM album Grazing Dreams. He moves through the evening the way he moved through the world – trumpet, then the doussn’gouni, the hunter’s harp of Mali, then bamboo flutes, percussion, voice. Walcott’s sitar and tabla run underneath, and Leon Thomas enters with his unmistakable yodel.
For part of the night the rest of Oregon steps in – Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore – and the music thickens without hardening. It circles rather than builds. The line runs straight from here to Codona, and Sunrise stands as its clearest forerunner: three musicians already dissolving borders in real time, before anyone had a name for what they were doing.
The new remastering is close and unguarded, the sound of a room in 1977 rather than a document about it. The release also works as a homage to Don and Moki Cherry’s creative partnership, the front cover reproducing Moki’s 1975 Mandala tapestry.
Thomas
Wow! Dieses Label hat Format!
Vorab erfreuen wir uns an Don Cherrys „The Third World-Underground“ mit Dollar Brand und Carlos Ward. Ebenfalls von wewantsounds. Ab heute im Handel!
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