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Don Cherry

trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, flute, piano · 1936–1995 · Oklahoma City

Free jazz trumpeter, he played with Ornette Coleman from 1958 and then with Coltrane, Rollins and Ayler. In the 1970s he became a pioneer of fusion with world music and co-led the group Codona on ECM.

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