Organic Music Society LP
Don Cherry – Organic Music Society (1972–73) is a richly experimental double‑LP that dissolves boundaries between free jazz, world music, folk, and spiritual sound. Recorded during the summers of 1971–72 in Sweden and released in 1972 on the Swedish label Caprice Records.
The album features a rotating "society" of musicians—including Bengt Berger, Christer Bothén, Okay Temiz, Naná Vasconcelos, and others—alongside Don Cherry performing on pocket cornet, piano, flute, harmonium, voice, conch shell, and more. It includes interpretations of works by Pharoah Sanders (“The Creator Has a Master Plan”), Dollar Brand (“Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro”), and minimalist composer Terry Riley (“Terry’s Tune”), stitched together with Cherry originals like the extended “Relativity Suite”.
Stylistically, this is not conventional jazz—it spans avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, Afrobeat, and world fusion, weaving vocal chants, non-Western instrumentation, ambient textural passages, and spontaneous ensemble interplay
