Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)

Hear & Now
Studio album by Don Cherry
Released	1977
Recorded	December 1976
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:00
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Narada Michael Walden
Don Cherry chronology
Brown Rice (1975) Hear & Now (1976) Codona (1978)

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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

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

1. Discogs album entry accessed December 8, 2011
2. Hamilton, A. Allmusic Review accessed December 8, 2011
3. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.