CHERRY, DONALD EUGENE (DON
). Jazz trumpeter ( in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). His family moved to Los Angeles, California, when he was four years old. He began playing trumpet as a child and played with a high-school jazz orchestra led by David Brown. He played professionally with local groups at an early age, among them,
Dexter Gordon
and
Wardell Gray
. About 1955 he came into contact with
Ornette Coleman
and joined a group of young musicians with whom Coleman...
CHERRY, DONALD EUGENE
(*1936)> JAZZ TRUMPETER