Brown Rice (album)

Brown Rice is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1975 and first released on Horizon Records.^[1]

Reception

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".^[2]

Track listing

All composions by Don Cherry except as indicated

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

• Recorded at The Basement Recording Studios in New York (track 1, 2 & 4) and at Grog Kill in Woodstock (track 3)

Personnel

• Don Cherry - trumpet, piano, electric piano, vocals
• Frank Lowe - saxophone (track 1, 2 & 4)
• Ricky Cherry - piano, electric piano (track 1, 2 & 4)
• Charlie Haden - bass (tracks 1, 3 & 4)
• Billy Higgins - drums
• Verna Gillis - vocals (track 1)
• Bunchie Fox - bongos (track 1)
• Hakim Jamil - bassoon (track 2)
• Moki - tamboura (track 3)

References