Moki

By the time Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson settled in Sweden in the late 1960s, Cherry had gotten away from what some would consider jazz.

Don and Moki hosted improvised performances in an old schoolhouse they lived in.

The Italian first vinyl pressing has beautiful Moki Cherry artwork and is probably the one to try and get, but Don looks so cool in the photo on the cover of the U.S. pressing and the design is so great that I recommend getting both.

While in Europe, he met Albert Ayler, whom he’d later record with, and Moki Karlsson, his future wife.

Cherry spent the ’70s in Sweden with his partner, Moki, where the two would create what they called “organic music” with like-minded local artists.