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Part II: Jazz Greats and Great Jazz: An Evolutionary Riff
complexity. Braxton plays the alto sax and other wind instruments as well as
piano and has produced some of jazz’s most unconventional music since the
mid-’60s.
Listen to For Alto Saxophone (Delmark), Dortmund/Quartet 1976 (Hat Art),
and Six Monk’s Compositions/1987 (Black Saint).
Don Cherry
Trumpeter Don Cherry (1936–1995) composed and played music that drew
from both international and classical sources. He inspired many musicians
who came through his bands.
� Cherry first explored free jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman’s
Quartet.
� He then formed his own band, Old and New Dreams, with drummer Ed
Blackwell, bassist Charlie Haden, and saxophonist Dewey Redman.
� Cherry played with Coltrane, Shepp, and other free-jazz leaders in
the ’60s.
� In the ’70s he made music with rock musicians such as Lou Reed and the
Talking Heads.
� In the ’70s and ’80s, Cherry brought international sounds into his music
through his band, Codona, that showed a move from hard-edge free jazz
to a gentler combination of jazz sounds with the music of Africa, India,
South America, and the Middle East.
Head out to your favorite music store and get Cherry’s Symphony for
Improvisers (Blue Note) as well as Codona, Vols. 1, 2, & 3. The first CD
finds Cherry leading a sextet through some bold improvised jazz in 1966,
whereas the Codona series combines Cherry’s sharp solos on trumpet
with the soothing thrum of world rhythms.
Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) was an associate of fellow saxophonists Ornette
Coleman and John Coltrane. Together in Coltrane’s group, Dolphy and
Coltrane soloed until they felt they finished — which may have been ten
minutes or an hour or longer.
Through his association with composer Gunther Schuller, Dolphy also had a
hand, or horn, in early ’60s experiments at combining jazz with elements of
classical music. He mainly played the alto sax, but he also played bass clarinet
and flute.