AOTW: Don Cherry - Brown Rice (SP-717)

[Captain Bacardi]

Don Cherry
BROWN RICE
A&M/Horizon SP717

Released 1977

Format: Vinyl/CD (Reissued as CD 0809)

Produced by Corrado Bacchelli
Associate Producer: Beppe Muccioli

Musicians:
Don Cherry - Trumpet, Electric Piano, Voice
Charlie Haden - Acoustic Bass
Billy Higgins - Drums
Frank Lowe - Tenor Sax
Ricky Cherry - Electric & Acoustic Piano
Bunchie Fox - Electric Bongos
Verna Gillis - Voice
Moki - Tamboura
Hakim Jamil - Acoustic Bass (3)

Songs:

• 1. Brown Rice (Cherry) 5:14
  2. Malkauns (Berger/Cherry) 13:58
  3. Chenrezig (Cherry) 12:50
  4. Degi-Degi (Cherry) 7:06

Recorded by Kurt Munkacsi at the Basement Recording Studios, New York and by Michael Mantler at Grog Kill, Woodstock, New York.
Mixed by Corrado Bacchelli and Kurt Munkacsi.

Creative Director: John Snyder
Art Direction: Roland Young
Design: Junie Osaki
Photography: James Fee (cover), Umberto Telesco, Toni Occhiello and Roberto Masotti.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Steven J. Gross]

Thats funny you should mention him- I saw this album and wondered about it. I had never heard of him, or don't remember. Any hits?
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[Captain Bacardi]

Thats funny you should mention him- I saw this album and wondered about it. I had never heard of him, or don't remember. Any hits?

Hits? Don Cherry isn't exactly a "hit maker" kind of artist. The album you refer to I just bought on eBay myself. I haven't listened to it yet. He did two for the A&M Masters Series - Art Deco and Multi-Kulti.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Mr Bill]

Cover image(s) have been added!

Both the original and the CD reissue cover:

There is no SP718 (and claims of its existence are dubious at best)...

--Mr B
unofficial AOTW Cover Archivist, online and off...

 

[Captain Bacardi]

Cover image(s) have been added!

Thanks, dewd! I only have this as the German reissue, which is on the right. Was the US reissue the same cover?

There is no SP718 (and claims of its existence are dubious at best)...

I've been wondering about that. According to my "source" 718 was assigned to Ira Sullivan, but I've never heard of another A&M session by Ira.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[LPJim]

The US cover (original LP and CD digi-pack reissue) is the same, absent the white background.
JB

 

[Captain Bacardi]

This album reminds me a lot of those Miles Davis electric albums, except that Don Cherry's trumpet playing is far more crisp than Miles. The rhythm grooves are really enticing on the entire album. This is closer to fusion than the avant-garde that Cherry usually does. It has a nice flow from start to finish. This was a good pick up for me.


Capt. Bacardi