Cosmic Jazz record trio

Across this collection of records, three storied jazz ensembles bridge hyperlocal scenes of international origins, achieving orgiastic, ecstatic soundscapes through the alchemical nature of improvisation. 

Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams, is an exhilarating live recording documenting Atrás del Cosmos, Mexico’s first free jazz ensemble, as they make their way through an expansive improvised journey marked by contrasting moments of explosive heat and cool hypnotic calm.

Organic Music Theatre is the historic first performance of the group comprised of free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936–1995) and visual artist Moki Cherry (1943–2009). Mastered from tapes recorded during its original live broadcast of the 1972 Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon in the South of France on public TV, Organic Music Theatre is a life-affirming, multicultural patchwork of borrowed tunes suffused with the hallowed aura of Don’s extensive global travels. 

The Summer House Sessions captures the weekend of July 20, 1968, when several musicians gathered outside of Stockholm for a series of rehearsals and jam sessions that capped off Cherry’s series of weekly workshops at the ABF, or Workers’ Educational Association, in the spring. Lacking a common language, the players used music as their common means of communication. The Summer House Sessions ensemble joyously layers manifold cultural idioms, traversing the airy peaks and serene valleys of Cherry’s earthly vision.