Don Cherry – Music, Wisdom, Love 1969 LP

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Repressed. Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazz’s most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris soundtrack sessions known asMusic, Wisdom, Lovehave evaded collectors’ grasps and confused historians for exactly 50 years. Instigated in Paris in 1967 and filmed duringDon Cherry‘s downtime on a visit to the Chat qui Pche nightclub in March 1967, where he played withKarl Berger,Henri Texier, andJacques Thollot, the bulk of this cinematic portrait was filmed on the streets of Paris under the direction of creative all-roundersJean-Nol DelamarreandNathalie Perrey, who, as their careers bloomed, would become pivotal figures in underground French cinema – straddling La Nouvelle Vague, adult entertainment, and cinema fantastique in what can only be described as speedball cinema. As the supportive creative family that primarily played home to French vampire/horrortica directorJean Rollin, both Nathalie and Jean-Nol, his brotherJean-Philippe Delamarreand a small team of other fans of oblique media would be responsible for a vibrant micro-culture that awkwardly flourished on the outskirts on the Parisian new wave – combining comic book culture, Lettrism, sexual liberation, psychedelic rock, graphic design, and, with this record as prime example, free jazz and avant-garde music. What previously might have been regarded as an unlikely coupling, with the benefit of half a century of archival hindsight, this release documents the essential cosmic collision of two fantastic planets. Available here for the first time ever and licensed from producer and director Jean-Nol Delamarre himself.