Neneh & Don Cherry

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping Don Cherry was born in 1936 in Oklahoma City, where he was surrounded by music from an early age. Both his mother and grandmother played piano, and his father owned The Cherry Blossom Club, a venue that hosted some of the great swing bands of the time as they traveled through the Great Plains. In 1940, the family moved westward to Los Angeles, where Cherry’s father worked at the Plantation Club, an essential jazz spot in the Watts neighborhood of South L.A. In the early 60's, he left his wife Carletta and two young children, Jan and David, placing them in the care of his mother in Los Angeles and taking off on his first European tour, to make good the early promise of his work with Ornette Coleman. When he finally came back, he had acquired a new family. Don Cherry had met Moki in Stockholm on a tour with saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Moki had an unusual approach to life: in the '70s, while many artists challenged the establishme