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My research is focused on Don Cherry (1936-1995), a multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz trumpeter.
In my thesis I trace the arc of his music across the 1960s-1970s鈥攆rom the birth of 鈥榝ree jazz鈥� to experiments in 鈥榳orld music鈥� avant la lettre鈥攁ttempting to understand it in relation to the social, cultural, and political shifts of the period. More than a missing piece of the historical puzzle that stands for nothing but its own particular truth, Cherry鈥檚 music shines a thin 鈥榖eam of lyrical sound鈥� onto world history (Ralph Ellison). Or to put it in Theodor Adorno鈥檚 words: 鈥極bjective is the fractured landscape, subjective: the only light in which it glows.鈥�