Brown Rice (album)
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| Studio album by Don Cherry | ||||
| Released | 1975, Italy | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 39:17 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Producer | Corrado Bacchelli | |||
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| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Brown Rice, reissued as Don Cherry, is a studio album recorded in 1975 by trumpeter Don Cherry.
The album presents a fusion of jazz with rock, African, Indian, and Arabic music.Charlie Haden plays wah-wah bass on the title track, while Frank Lowe's tenor evokes a blues influence. "Malkauns" includes tambura accompaniment.
The tracks "Brown Rice," "Malkauns" and "Degi-Degi" were recorded by engineer Kurt Munkacsi at Basement Recording Studios in New York City. "Chenrezig" was recorded by Michael Mantler at Grog Kill, , New York.Corrado Baccheli produced the sessions with his associate Beppe Muccioli.
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".
Brian Morton and Richard Cook, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz, called Brown Rice "a lost classic of the era and probably the best place to sample the trumpeter as both soloist – he blows some stunningly beautiful solos here – and as the shamanic creator of a unique, unearthly sound that makes dull nonsense of most 'fusion' work of the period.… Exceptional and recommended." Previous editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album a four-star rating, of a possible four.
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