Dennis Cherry
Instrument: saxophone
Description: Mugging for the camera
Influenced by recordings of Charlie Parker and Lester Young, Dennis Cherry learned to play the clarinet and the saxophone. Cherry played with local and regional groups from 1945 until the 1960s, traveled internationally and is pictured here in 1955 in Germany during a radio broadcast while on tour with the U.S. Army. Cherry changed careers at the end of the 1960s and became a photographer.
Cherry not only played music, he wrote poetry describing his experiences. This poem details Cherry's feeling about the loneliness and insecurities of life on the road.
Sometimes good, sometimes bad,
sometimes happy, sometimes sad.
All must go, all must die;
Free of body, the soul can fly.
Live your life and live it well
We must go to Heaven,
We 've been through hell.
©Cherry
From the collection of: Dennis CherryFor a glossy print of this image refer to ID# ARC15-02
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