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Don Cherry (Trumpeter)

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The Resume

    (November 18, 1936-October 19, 1995)
    Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    Jazz trumpeter
    Frequent sideman with Ornette Coleman
    Member of the bands Old and New Dreams (1976-87) and Codona (1979-83)
    As leader, recorded the albums 'Complete Communion' (1965), 'Symphony for Improvisers' (1966), 'Where Is Brooklyn?' (1966), 'Eternal Rhythm' (1968), 'Orient' (1971), 'Organic Music Society' (1972), 'Eternal Now' (1973), 'Hear & Now' (1976), 'Art Deco' (1988) and 'Multi Kulti' (1991)
    Father of Eagle-Eye Cherry
    Stepfather of Neneh Cherry

Why he might be annoying:

    He was sent to reform school for cutting classes too often.
    He abused heroin.
    He moved to Sweden as a protest against the Vietnam War (1970).
    'Eagle-Eye' isn't a nickname, it's the actual name he gave his son.
    Miles Davis said, 'Anyone can tell that guy's not a trumpet player.... Every note he plays he looks serious about, and people will go for that, especially white people.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He kicked his heroin addiction after going through a methadone treatment program.
    He received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to present music workshops in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles (1982).
    He was an early world music proponent, incorporating influences from African, Turkish, Indian and Indonesian music, and earning the nickname 'the Marco Polo of jazz.'
    In addition to trumpet (and the similar cornet), he played piano, bamboo flute, berimbau (a musical bow from Brazil), doussn'gouni and xalam (stringed instruments from Mali), and conch.
    In concerts he was described as playing 'with childlike abandon.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 81.25% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 30.77% Annoying