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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...

Rediscovering Moki and Don Cherry’s Utopian Visions ‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry ‘On nights before our days of travel, the sewing machine’s drive was a lullaby,’ writes musician Neneh Cherry, reflecting on her mother, the artist Moki Cherry, in a new book about her life and work with her husband, the free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Moki would stitch stage sets and costumes into the early hours. ‘She even made the...

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...