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Don Cherry

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Also known as Donald Ross Cherry

American singer and golfer (1924–2018)

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
Country
US
Active from
1936-11-18
Active to
1995-10-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
167,473
Total plays
1,384,359

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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Quotes

  • Ron MacLean: No, no, it could be a four-minute penalty...
  • Jimmy Waite thinks this is offside. WRONG Jimmy! 1-0!
  • My buddy Tie [Domi] gets zonked by [Scott] Stevens! [Shawn] Antoski catches [David] Shaw. [Mathieu] Schneider flips [Troy] Mallette! Sergei Bautin lays a pretty one on [Darren] McCarty! [Eric] Weinrich jolts [Mike] Sillinger!
  • [Garry] Galley crunches [Kelly] Buchberger, and Buchberger's not too happy!
  • Here’s a different way to score on a two-on-one: Boston’s [Cam] Stewart shoots the puck, and [Steve] Heinze puts home the rebound! Shorthanded too!
  • [Bob] Beers crashes [Ron] Hextall. Ron's a little upset, and Beers is lucky it didn't happen a few years ago!

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.doncherry.us
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date of birth
1924-01-11
date of death
2018-04-04
start of work period
1951-00-00
birth name
Donald Ross Cherry
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