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Catherine Christer Hennix, a Swedish polymath and pioneer of drone music, has died at the age of 75 at her home in Istanbul, Turkey.

"Sound of Joy" is the name of an LP by the celebrated Sun Ra and his Arkestra that was recorded way back in 1956. Although the leader of that group is long

A Fresh Look at the ‘Organic Music’ 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 c...

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 Do...