Jamie Breiwick: Awake Volume 2-The Music of Don Cherry

Trumpeter and leader Jamie Beiwick gives a tribute to one of the truly iconoclastic trumpeters in the  history of jazz, Don Cherry on this album of tunes associated with him. The flexible team of Lenard Simpson/as, Chris Weller/ts, Tim Ipsen/b-koto and Devin Drobka/dr mixes freedom and form   on these six pieces, with Breiwick  squeezing out notes from his mouthpiece like lemon seeds on the deeply grooved and percussive “Benoego”, while the more bopping Monsieru Allard”  has the horn man l inked in with Simpson in a highly Ornette Coleman atmosphere.  A fluffy muted trumpet works well with  Weller on the floating “Bird Boy” and the horns are graceful as they saunter around Ipsen’s bass during “Ganesh”. Things get a bit abstract with some exotic koto tones supplied by Ipsen on “Interlude With Puppets”, but all of the colors here represent faithfully Cherry’s musical mosaic. This is their music.

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