Gift Of The Gnawa by Hassan Hakmoun And Adam Rudolph, released on Flying Fish in 1991.

Review by Adam Greenberg

This is world fusion's true sound. A young, hip Gnawa sintir player here combines his expertise with a multi-national percussionist, a European ney player, and veteran free jazzer Don Cherry's pocket trumpet to create a soundscape that one cannot escape from. All this is done in New York City. The ney work here is perhaps the greatest contribution...

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RIP Bengt Berger, Swedish musician and ethnomusicologist. Berger formed the group Bitter Funeral Beer Band after his trip and studies of African music in Ghana in the 1970s. The album is a five part suite that was based on the life and death, and spiritual resurrection of life in Ghana.
Don Cherry is on board. Berger and Cherry go a long way back to the early 1960s when Cherry visited Sweden. Bengt Berger: "I had been to India and had studied tabla, which he got very interested in, so we got to playing a lot, and I stayed for a long time at his house in Sweden and going on European tours with him as well."

Here is a great live performance of the piece from 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALp9N_lS_b8

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Don Cherry:
🎵 Flute Song

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🎶 show playlist 👇
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köln / terry riley, don cherry. 1975

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1 – Descending Moonshine Dervishes 00:00
2 – Sunrise Of The Planetary Dream Collector 19:44
3 – Köln Improvisation 27:57

Don Cherry: Hockey Commentator 🥅🎤

Don Cherry (Donald Stewart Cherry) is a Canadian ice hockey commentator and sports writer. He was previously a professional hockey player and National Hockey League (NHL) coach. He is known for his outspoken manner, opinions and flamboyant dress. 🏒🇨🇦 #Canada #DonCherry #Hockey #HockeyNightInCanada

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The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records. It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The album was assembled from two unissued recording sessions at Atlantic Studios in New York City in 1960.

On "Focus on Sanity", Cherry and Coltrane complement each other with contrasting sound as Coltrane "leaps into [the music] like a man possessed, while Cherry answers with a feathery tone." - Wikipedia

An LP I first heard back in the 80s as a teen, having borrowed it from Preston Library when libraries had vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLi9xhm_Uc

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