Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)

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Hear & Now
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Studio album by
Don Cherry
Released1977
RecordedDecember 1976
Genre Jazz
Length45:00
Label Atlantic
Producer Narada Michael Walden
Don Cherry chronology
Brown Rice
(1975)		Hear & Now
(1977)		 Codona
(1978)

Hear & Now is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry, recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic label.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

The AllMusic review by Andrew Hamilton stated: "An average collection from Cherry, respectable and inoffensive". [2]

In a review for All About Jazz , Chris May warned: "if you only acquire one Don Cherry album in your life, don't acquire this one," and commented: "There are some great musicians on the album... but it's not enough to lift the proceedings." [1]

Phil Johnson, writing for The Independent , stated: "It's all over the place stylistically, from Indian mysticism to heavy metal, played by bizarre bands... And yet at least a couple of the tracks... are amazing, presaging Bill Laswell's funky world-fusion." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated
  1. "Mahakali" – 9:50
  2. "Universal Mother" (Sherab-Barry Bryant, Cherry) – 6:46
  3. "Karmapa Chenno" – 7:14
  4. "California" – 2:51
  5. "Buddha's Blues" – 3:40
  6. "Eagle Eye" – 0:55
  7. "Surrender Rose" (Narada Michael Walden) – 3:32
  8. "Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/The Ending Movement-Liberation [from Welkin of Infinity]" (Cherry/Cherry/Stan Samole) – 10:12
  • Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York in December 1976.

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 May, Chris (February 6, 2010). "Don Cherry: Hear And Now". All About Jazz. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Hamilton, A. AllMusic Review accessed December 8, 2011
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  40. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Phil (February 7, 2010). "Album: Don Cherry, Hear & Now". The Independent. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
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