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David Ornette Cherry
Location: none, CA United States
Joined: Sep 10th, 2010

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David Ornette Cherry is a composer, band leader, jazz keyboardist, and music producer.
He grew up in Watts, California, and has played with some of the great jazz artists of our times --
Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Dewey Redman, Nana Vasconcelos, Jim Pepper,
Phil Ranelin, Ralph "Buzzy" Jones, Justo Almario, Kamau Daaood, Renee Mitchell, Watts
Prophets S. Pearl Sharp, Susan Banyas, Thara Memory, Devin Phillips, Obo Addy, Glenn
Moore, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble-- and his father, the late, great jazz trumpeter, Don Cherry.

David Ornette Cherry has performed his high-spirited, elegant Ensemble for Improvisors
at Jimmy Mak's in Portland, the Rueben Museum through the Jazz Museum in Harlem in New
York City, at Loyola Marymount University, the Getty Museum, and ALOUD at Central Library
in Los Angeles. His Organic Roots band from Los Angeles performed in a jazz festival in
Sardinia, Italy in September 2008. His collaboration with performance artist, Susan Banyas, No
Strangers Here Today, has been touring the country, and their recent collaboration, The
Hillsboro Story, will have a world premier at Artists Repertory Theatre in fall, 2010, followed by
a national tour in 2010/11. He is the composer for Embers, a jazz opera in poems, written by
Los Angeles poet Terry Wolverton, presented in workshop form in January, 2009 in Los Angeles
as part of the ALOUD/LA series. His music score for choreographer Gregg Bielemeier's Half of
Some, Neither of Either, produced by White Bird, premiered in December 2008.

My Interview Question

Are you an Artist

Current Whereabouts:

Composer/Musician

Life & Professional Aspirations:

My music career and education have thrust me into a variety of musical expressions that I call my "mosaic of sound." I have been influenced by music of the world - the music of the spirit created from a powerful tapestry of rhythms and sensual melodies. Yet I am also influenced by the infusion of modern technology into that sound - I am a mix of world and jazz idioms. In my world, the piano, the keyboard, sounds of nature and numerous instruments of traditional peoples and those who reside in urban society, touch and effect each other with a calming and symbiotic fervor. I compose with the idea that all exist in a world of harmonies which mirror life evolving away from the chaotic (to the positive). There's not just a co-existence but a melding of forms to produce a single musical expression.

Website:

http://www.davidornettecherry.com

Education (request update)

Bishop College class of 1979

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