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Multikulti (album)

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Released
  
1990

Multikulti (1990)
  
Dona Nostra (1993)

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
55:44

Artist
  
Don Cherry

Label
  
A&M Records

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Recorded
  
December 27, 1988 November 7, 8 & 29, 1989 January 20, 1990 February 23, 1990

Producer
  
David Cherry & John L. Price

Similar
  
Don Cherry albums, Jazz albums

Don cherry multikulti soothsayer


Multikulti is an album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recorded between 1988 and 1990 and released in 1991 on the A&M label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4 stars stating "As a standalone single CD, this recording, done over a three-year period and more than any other from Don Cherry, represents a full spectrum overview of all the phases in his nomadic adult musical life".

Track listing

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated
  1. "Trumpet" – 0:45
  2. "Multikulti Soothsayer" - 5:26
  3. "Flute" – 1:08
  4. "Birdboy - 4:41
  5. "Melodica" - 1:26
  6. "Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo" - 4:23
  7. "Pettiford Bridge" (Carlos Ward) - 4:44
  8. "Piano / Trumpet" - 2:25
  9. "Until The Rain Comes" (Peter Apfelbaum) - 12:17
  10. "Divinity-Tree" - 5:14
  11. "Rhumba Multikulti" (Don Cherry, Josh Jones, Robert Huffman) - 4:10
  12. "Multikulti Soothsayer Player" - 4:27
  • Recorded at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California (track 4) on 27 December 1988, at Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley, California on 7 November, 1989 (tracks 9 & 10) and 8 November 1989 (track 11), at BMG Recording Studios in New York City on 20 November 1989 (tracks 6 & 7) and 20 January 1990 (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8 & 12), and at Serafine Studios in Santa Monica, California on 23 February 1990 (track 2)

    • Personnel

  • Don Cherry — pocket trumpet, doussn'gouni, vocals, flute, melodica, piano
  • A Watts Prophet, Anthony Hamilton, Ingrid Sertso - vocals
  • Frank Serafine, David Cherry - synthesizer
  • John L. Price - drum programming
  • Bo Freeman - bass
  • Mark London Sims - bass
  • Karl Berger - marimba, vocals
  • Bob Stewart - tuba
  • Carlos Ward - alto saxophone
  • Naná Vasconcelos - percussion
  • Ed Blackwell, Deszon X. Claiborne - drums
  • Peter Apfelbaum - tenor saxophone, cowbell, marimba, organ, synthesizer, bells, gong, palitos, vocals
  • Jessica Jones, Tony Jones - tenor saxophone
  • Joshua Jones - drums, timbales, cowbell, vocals
  • Robert Huffman - congas, bell tree, vocals
  • Peck Allmond - baritone saxophone
  • Jeff Cressman - trombone, vocals
  • Frank Ekeh - shekere, dunun, vocals
  • Stan Franks, Will Bernard - guitar
  • James Harvey - trombone
  • Bill Ortiz - trumpet, vocals
  • Allen Ginsberg, Claudia Engelhart, Karen Knight - chorus

    • Songs

    1Trumpet0:51
    2Multikulti Soothsayer5:30
    3Flute1:14

    References

    Multikulti (album) Wikipedia
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