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Moki Cherry: Don Cherry's Collaborator Now Gets Her Due

Even now, a quarter century after his death in 1995, jazz fans need little prompting to summon his manifold accomplishments, whether with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler or Archie Shepp, with Old and New Dreams or under his own name. Not so for Don Cherry's wife, Moki Cherry -- even though her collaborations, and in particular her art, visibly permeate Don Cherry's work. A new book, Organic Music Societies, from the not-for-profit arts organization Blank Forms, aims to set the record straight on the magnitude of Moki's contributions to the culture of her time.

-Nick Moy

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Ten Essential Jazz Albums: A List

This Jazz Blog list of 10 essential albums offers mostly solid home runs. Two surprises are Ellington Indigos, which a lot of Ellington fans find to be one of his dullest albums, and Gregory Porter’s Be Good. All of Gregory’s albums are excellent, but it’s still a little early in his career to crown one of them as essential.

-Michael Cuscuna

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