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A Fresh Look at the âOrganic Musicâ of Moki and Don Cherry
Starting in the late 1960s, the textile artist and the trumpeter taught classes, held concerts and made work in a Swedish schoolhouse. This period is the focus of a new celebration by Blank Forms.
Don and Moki Cherry at the schoolhouse in Tagarp, Sweden, where they taught classes, held concerts and made work, in 1979.Credit.Rita Knox
April 28, 2021, 8:41 a.m. ET
In the mid-20th century, a steady stream of American jazz musicians flew the coop to Europe, ditching the restrictions and prejudices of their home country for a continent where earning a decent living as an artist seemed more possible.
The Summer House Sessions, and
Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 – are being released via Blank Forms this June.
The Summer House Sessions was recorded in Sweden during the summer of 1968, after sound engineer Göran Freese invited Don, members of his two working bands, and a drummer to Kummelnäs for a series of rehearsals and jam sessions.
(The album was presumed lost, until recordings from the sessions were recently re-discovered in the vaults of the Swedish Jazz Archive.)
In 1972, the Cherrys unveiled their Organic Music Theatre project, which encompassed Don’s music, Moki’s art, as well as elements from their family life.