Music for the Fifth World

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Music for the Fifth World
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedFebruary 1992
Genre Jazz
Length60:09
Label Manhattan
Producer Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Earthwalk
(1991)
Music for the Fifth World
(1993)
Extra Special Edition
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Music for the Fifth World is an album by Jack DeJohnette, featuring performances with Will Calhoun, Michael Cain, Vernon Reid, Lonnie Plaxico and John Scofield plus vocalists, recorded in 1992 and released on the Manhattan label in 1993. [2]

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music is stimulating if not as essential as DeJohnette's earlier work with Special Edition". [1] A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums and described it as an "ambitious homage to Native American culture". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated
  1. "Fifth World Anthem" - 9:27
  2. "Dohiyi Circle No. 1" (Joan Henry) - 2:56
  3. "Miles" - 8:15
  4. "Two Guitar Chant/Dohiyi (DeJohnette, Henry) - 5:16
  5. "Deception Blues" - 4:55
  6. "Witchi-Tai-To" (Jim Pepper additional lyrics by Henry) - 6:11
  7. "Darkness to Light" - 12:34
  8. "Dohiyi Circle No. 2" (Henry) - 2:25
  9. "Aboriginal Dream Time" - 8:10
  • Recorded at Clinton Studios, N.Y in February, 1992

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, Scott Allmusic Review accessed 11 September 2009
  2. Jack DeJohnette discography accessed 11 September 2009
  3. Milkowski, Bill (April 6, 2012). "DeJohnography". JazzTimes . Retrieved May 30, 2020.