Record Store Day is coming up fast both in the UK and the US and the Cherry on the cake for jazz heads among the release ingredients this year is a previously unavailable Don Cherry quartet recording that dates back to 1965, Cherry Jam.

Issuing this unheard recording, of which no personnel details are available on publicity material so far, by the great Ornette Coleman cornetist and global music explorer Cherry (1936-1995), whose sound remains very influential and hip all these years on, is the King's Cross, London, label Gearbox who are putting the music out taken from the original tape in a small run of 12'' vinyl discs playing at 45 revolutions per minute.

Around 1965 Cherry was a prodigious recording artist making the likes of Togetherness with Gato Barbieri, guesting with George Russell for the At Beethoven Hall recordings in the summer and, in terms of historic milestone recordings of the avant garde, making important recordings with Albert Ayler and most significantly of all recording on Christmas Eve his own Complete Communion.

Marlbank hasn't heard the Cherry jam material so far. What we can glean is that it comprises four tracks of previously unreleased material, including three new compositions. Side A has 1. 'The Ambassador from Greenland' 2. 'You Took Advantage of Me' and Side B: 1. 'Priceless' and 2. 'Nigeria'.