Movies: Don Cherry

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before...

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called 'Zan Boko' - a phrase which connotes the...

Moki and Don Cherry met in the mid-1960s and soon began collaborating closely. They made happenings, music, art, posters, and record sleeves; they performed together, organized workshops, and toured. The film merges the different worlds they lived in...

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the filter through which are selected the materials used - people, things, signs - and determines a good portion of the associations though which the seq...

ZERO IN THE UNIVERSE is a comedy, a cryptogram–a message in code to the viewer. Who is Zero? What universe? What is the opposition of Zero and his arch enemy, Steinmetz? What does it come from, and where, if anywhere, does it go. The film presents ab...

Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron....

Set to an excerpt of Don Cherry's Malkauns from his border-erasing 1975 album, Brown Rice, Shale Raga extracts corporate video toward resistance a la carbon-based capitalist sorcery, in this case EcoShale technology, which is patented by Alberta-base...

Don Cherry walks around and plays music...

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera in a studio....

A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz....

A concert at the Golden Circle with Don Cherry and his quintet was filmed and then processed to an art movie using various optical effects....

The Ornette Coleman Quartet performs lives in Barcelona in 1987....

Footage shot by Steve Gebhardt during the recording sessions for Carla Bley's staggering and star-studded avant-jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill....

A 1976 television broadcast recorded at RAI studios [Rome, Italy]. Don Cherry - pocket trumpet, doussn'gouni, wooden flute, percussion, vocals, Nana Vasconcelos - tabla, berimbau, percussion, vocals, Moki Cherry - tambura, vocals, Giampiero Pramaggio...