Don Cherry passed away in 1995 at the age of 58 in Málaga, Spain. He was survived by several children, including step-daughter Neneh Cherry, who was briefly in the post-punk band The Slits with Ari Up, and then later recorded under her own name.
Neneh is probably most famous for her song Buffalo Stance, but here's The Slits reinventing Motown (I Heard It Through The Grapevine) and deconstructing hip-hop (In The Beginning). These are non-sequitur to the jazz theme of the Old School Friday posts, but there's no reason we can't post them here on a Saturday. The music of The Slits, and late 70s/early 80s New Wave in general, was part of my transition away from jazz and back to so-called popular music.
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