9 March 1930 - 11 June 2015
The singer-songwriter recalls the ‘quiet intensity’ of the American saxophonist who with her stepfather, Don Cherry, took jazz in wild new directions
• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2015 in full here
• BB King remembered by Joe Bonamassa
The singer-songwriter recalls the ‘quiet intensity’ of the American saxophonist who with her stepfather, Don Cherry, took jazz in wild new directions
• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2015 in full here
• BB King remembered by Joe Bonamassa
I first met Ornette when I was just two and a half, when I went to New York with Don [Cherry, her stepdad] and Moki [her mother]. We stayed in Ornette’s building in Brooklyn. He lived there and practised on another floor. John Coltrane and Elvin Jones practised upstairs.
The sound itself is the message. It makes you sense all the feelings that couldn’t be put into words
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