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Also known as Donald Stewart "Don" Cherry, Donald Stewart Cherry, Donald Cherry

Canadian ice hockey coach and television commentator

Person · Open Library

Works
10

Top works

  • Save America
  • Bench Bosses
  • Don Cherry's Rock'Em Sock'Em Hockey 21
  • Black and Gold
  • Grapes

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1936-11-18
Active to
1995-10-19
2008 universal fire victimavant-garde jazzfree jazzjazzspiritual jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
167,482
Total plays
1,384,570

Tags

free jazzjazzAvant-GardetrumpetFusion

Don Cherry (Donald Eugene Cherry, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 18, 1936 - October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter. Don Cherry gained notoriety in the late 1950s through legendary Ornette Coleman recordings featuring Cherry's cornet and trumpet playing (sometimes featuring his playing of novel horns); including The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz (1961), the latter of which bred an entirely new sub-genre of jazz itself. After leaving Coleman and playing with John Coltran

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Sports profile

Sport
American Football
Nationality
United States

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Don
Family name
Cherry
Gender
male
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Kingston
Member of team
Springfield Indians
Position played
defenseman
Mass
180
Image
Don Cherry in 2010.jpg
Height
180
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date of birth
1934-02-05
Commons category
Don Cherry
social media followers
866840
Sources (3)

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