Hear & Now
Studio album by
Released1977
RecordedDecember 1976
GenreJazz
Length45:00
LabelAtlantic
ProducerNarada 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.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
All About Jazz[4]

The AllMusic review by Andrew Hamilton awarded the album 2½ stars stating "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."[4]

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."[5]

A reviewer for Head Heritage commented: "a Don Cherry LP bowing to commercial acceptability is a damn sight better than many other artists of the time reaching for similar acceptance, and there are moments of high-brilliance amongst the clotted, over-sentimentalized, clinical pap."[6]

Track listing

All composions 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. Discogs album entry accessed December 8, 2011
  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. 1 2 May, Chris (February 6, 2010). "Don Cherry: Hear And Now". All About Jazz. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  5. Johnson, Phil (7 February 2010). "Album: Don Cherry, Hear & Now". The Independent. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  6. "Don Cherry: Hear & Now". Head Heritage. March 2, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
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