8. Don Cherry

Don Cherry is another obsession – the whole package, with Moki Cherry’s embroidery too. A couple of years ago I opened for Neneh Cherry, their daughter, and I was just too shy to ask what it was like to have parents like that. Can you imagine?! Organic Music Society, it’s like A Love Supreme, it’s a spiritual healer – when I put this record on, I can’t do anything else – if I’m cooking, or doing anything else in the house, I have to stop, it’s like full meditation.

I’ve never met anyone who has heard it and doesn’t like it. 

That’s a good way to put it – what is there not to like? What is there not to be inspired by? It’s so beautiful on so many levels. He’s not interested in being labelled, he was a free spirit.