Brown Rice (album)

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Brown Rice
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Studio album by
Don Cherry
Released1975, Italy
Recorded1975
Genre
Length39:17
Label EMI
Producer Corrado Bacchelli
Don Cherry chronology
Orient
(1974)		Brown Rice
(1975)		 Hear & Now
(1976)

Brown Rice, reissued as Don Cherry, is a studio album recorded in 1975 by trumpeter Don Cherry.

Contents

Overview

The album presents a fusion of jazz with rock, African, Indian, and Arabic music. [1] [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide B+ [3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Tom Hull – on the Web B+ [6]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Brown Rice is the most accessible entry point into Cherry's borderless ideal, jelling into a personal, unique, and seamless vision that's at once primitive and futuristic in the best possible senses of both words. While Cherry would record a great deal of fine work in the years to come, he would never quite reach this level of wild invention again". [1]

Brian Morton and Richard Cook, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz , called Brown Rice "a lost classic of the era and probably the best place to sample the trumpeter as both soloist – he blows some stunningly beautiful solos here – and as the shamanic creator of a unique, unearthly sound that makes dull nonsense of most 'fusion' work of the period.… Exceptional and recommended." [7] Previous editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album a four-star rating, of a possible four. [4]

Carl Braurer, writing for Cadence , suggested that the title track and "Degi-Degi" were the least successful tracks on the album, and would have benefited from shorter running times. [2] However, Braurer felt that overall, "this [album] is Cherry at his finest." [2] The All Music Guide to Jazz , which reprinted Braurer's review, marked the album as a landmark recording. [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Cherry except where noted

  1. "Brown Rice" - 5:15
  2. "Malkauns" (Bengt Berger, Don Cherry) - 14:02
  3. "Chenrezig" - 12:51
  4. "Degi-Degi" - 7:06

Personnel

Carl Brauer noted apparent errors in the album's credits: "Don Cherry does not play trumpet on 'Brown Rice,' but he does play it on 'Degi-Degi,' and for the life of me I can't hear Frank Lowe's tenor on that track." [2]

Additional personnel

Release history

The album was first titled Brown Rice. [1] [2] [7] EMI Records originally released the album in Italy under this title. [2] Horizon Records reissued the album in 1977, titled Don Cherry. [2] [8] John Snyder and Rudy Van Gelder prepared a digital master at Van Gelder Studio in 1988, and in 1989 A&M Records released Brown Rice on compact disc. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Braurer, Carl (1994), Ron Wynn (ed.), All Music Guide to Jazz , M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, pp.  147–148, ISBN   0-87930-308-5
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 23, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
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  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Don Cherry". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  7. 1 2 Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 424–425. ISBN   978-0-14-104831-4.
  8. ↑ Brown Rice at AllMusic . Retrieved 2012-10-01.
  9. ↑ Brown Rice (Media notes). Don Cherry. Los Angeles: A&M. 1976. 397 001-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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