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Portrait of Don Cherry

Don Cherry

jazz trumpeter

  • 1936 to 1995
  • from Oklahoma City
  • On fono: 92 songs
  • 30 collaborators
  • 15 cited facts
  • 15 sources

The people around them

Who works with them most. Tap a person to see everything they made.

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Who makes their records

People credited as writer, producer, engineer or mixer on their songs.

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Top songs

  1. From The Avant-Garde

    1. 1

      The Invisible

      1966

    2. 2

      Cherryco

      1966

    3. 3

      The Blessing

      1966

    4. 4

      Focus on Sanity

      1966

  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 7
  5. 8

  6. From “mu” First Part

    1. 9

      Brilliant Action

      1970

    2. 10

      Terrestrial Beings

      1970

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Where the songs were made

Releases

  1. 2020

  2. 2007

  3. 2004

  4. 1989

  5. 1985

  6. 1982

  7. 1978

  8. 1977

  9. 1975

  10. 1970

Member of

Elsewhere

Sources (15)

Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.

  1. 1MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Albert Ayler Quartet

    Don Cherry is a member of Albert Ayler Quartet

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  2. 2MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra

    Don Cherry is a member of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra

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  3. 3MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Codona

    Don Cherry is a member of Codona

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  4. 4MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry Quartet

    Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry Quartet

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  5. 5MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry Trio

    Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry Trio

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  6. 6MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry’s New Researches

    Don Cherry is a member of Don Cherry’s New Researches

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  7. 7MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of New York Contemporary Five

    Don Cherry is a member of New York Contemporary Five

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  8. 8MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Old and New Dreams

    Don Cherry is a member of Old and New Dreams

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  9. 9MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Ornette Coleman Quintet

    Don Cherry is a member of Ornette Coleman Quintet

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  10. 10MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of Sonny Rollins Quartet

    Don Cherry is a member of Sonny Rollins Quartet

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  11. 11MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of The Don Cherry Quintet

    Don Cherry is a member of The Don Cherry Quintet

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  12. 12MusicBrainz Don Cherry is a member of The Ornette Coleman Quartet

    Don Cherry is a member of The Ornette Coleman Quartet

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  13. 13MusicBrainz Don Cherry is from Oklahoma City

    Don Cherry is from Oklahoma City

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  14. 14Wikidata The genre of Don Cherry is free jazz

    The genre of Don Cherry is free jazz

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  15. 15Wikidata The genre of Don Cherry is jazz

    The genre of Don Cherry is jazz

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