Don Cherry “Brown Rice” (EMI, 1975)

Don’t let the name confuse you, Don Cherry isn’t the
Canadian hockey loud mouth with a taste for suites so gawdish that it can wreck
your eyes from staring at for too long. No this is the avant garde jazz
trumpeter Don Cherry. Lets take a little journey through many different ethnic
influences on the record, like African tribal music? We got you covered! Like
the music of India and various Arabic genres? We got that covered too! The
title track includes some pretty scat inspired vocals mixed over some of the
most freaky dubbed out free jazz I have heard. Perhaps a few too many hits of
acid at a Sun Ra concert? Maybe he saw Miles Davis when he started using
distortion on his trumpet? Only four tracks on this album, so its a quick
listen but with it being so damn good I would expect multiple listens are in
order! A must for fans of Sun Ra and modern contemporaries Forest Swords and
Sun Araw. Grip This! Highly Recommended and I am very picky when it comes to
jazz!

Review made by Matt Yablonski/2014

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