Now that we recovered from the Evan Parker/John Geggie/Jean Martin concert we can look into the future in confidence. However, this also means looking back to the early days of avant-garde Jazz which usually means Europe and more specifically Copenhagen. In the early '60s, there were lots of the founding fathers of avant-garde spending time playing and meeting in Copenhagen. In 1966, Don Cherry assembled an interesting band with saxophonist Gato Barbieri, vibraphonist Karl Berger. The repertoire was also interesting since it included at least an explicit folkloric tune, Black Orpheous and an implicit folkloric tune, Ghosts, a composition of saxophonist Albert Ayler inspired from a Swedish folk song that was also intensively playing Copenhagen these days. Today, this performance and the introduction of Don Cherry about Ayler almost sounds like he knew what was to happen to Ayler less than a half decade later but also that he was a key composer and performer in this new idiom that would leave a subtantial imprit on this music.
intro Don Cheery - live at cafe montmartre 1996 vol II - ESK-disk |
orfeu negru Don Cheery - live at cafe montmartre 1996 vol II - ESK-disk |
suite for Albert Ayler Don Cheery - live at cafe montmartre 1996 vol II - ESK-disk |
complete communion Don Cheery - live at cafe montmartre 1996 vol II - ESK-disk |
elephantasy Don Cheery - live at cafe montmartre 1996 vol II - ESK-disk |