Cherry, Don Brown Rice 06/15/2018 Sleepwalking 2

Sleepwalking 2

electronically enabled pastiche of same

Michael Condello (hand claps)

The album closes on a beautiful and hauntingly sparse treatment of Gershwins Summertime

Cherry, Don Brown Rice 06/15/2018 Sleepwalking 2This was digitally remastered. If Eternal Rhythm was Don Cherry's world fusion masterpiece of the '60s, then Brown Rice is its equivalent for the '70s. But where Eternal Rhythm set global influences in a free jazz framework, Brown Rice's core sound is substantially different, wedding Indian, African, and Arabic music to Miles Davis' electrified jazz rock innovations. And although purists will likely react here the same way they did to post Bitches