Jon Appleton & Don Cherry – Human Music

Free jazz improvisation and organic music meets electro-acoustic composition techniques and synthesizers on Don Cherry and Jon Appleton’s first collaboration, the aptly titled Human Music. Released on Bob Thiele’s legendary Flying Dutchman, these early pioneering and controversial electronic jazz experiments tested the boundaries of electronic sound, jazz and ethnological disciplines. “Cherry’s recent explorations into folk, ethnic, and exotic music provide a range of tone color which is subsequently modified by and joined to the music Appleton produces with synthesizer. The live interaction of these two musicians is complimented by synthesizer configurations which are programmed by response to the different instruments played by Cherry (wood, bamboo and metal flutes; kalimbas; earthquake drums; coronet with traditional mouthpiece and bassoon reed).”

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