Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)

Hear & Now is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Andrew Hamilton awarded the album 2½ stars stating "An average collection from Cherry, respectable and inoffensive".^[2]

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

• Don Cherry - trumpet, bells, conch, flute, vocals

• Michael Brecker - saxophone
• Collin Walcott - sitar
• Moki - tamboura
• Ronald Dean Miller, Stan Samole - guitar
• Lois Colin - harp
• Cliff Carter - keyboards
• Narada Michael Walden - piano, timpani, tom tom
• Marcus Miller, Neil Jason - bass
• Sammy Figueroa - congas
• Tony Williams, Lenny White, Steve Jordan - drums
• Raphael Cruz - percussion
• Cheryl Alexander - vocals

References