Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)

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

Hear & Now
Studio album by
Don Cherry
Released1977
RecordedDecember 1976
GenreJazz
Length45:00
LabelAtlantic
ProducerNarada Michael Walden
Don Cherry chronology
Brown Rice
(1975)		 Hear & Now
(1977)		 Codona
(1978)

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. 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. May, Chris (February 6, 2010). "Don Cherry: Hear And Now". All About Jazz. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  5. Johnson, Phil. "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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