Eternal Now is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1973 and released on the Swedish Sonet label. accessed December 7, 2011
The album was reissued by Sonet on CD in 1996, paired with Live Ankara, with the title The Sonet Recordings.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4 stars stating "the whole point is to explore new musical possibilities and commonalities among cultures. While the results do meander occasionally, Eternal Now on the whole remains a fresh, unpredictable listen."Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 7, 2011
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Aficionados of the Scandinavian scene will cherish a track featuring the great tenorist Bernt Rosengren on tarogato... 'Love Train' is perhaps the most jazz-based piece on the session. The remaining tracks are squarely in the world music idiom that Cherry was to make his own in years to come."
Track listing All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated "Gamla Stan – The Old Town by Night" – 8:27 "Love Train" – 7:50 "Bass Figure for Ballatune" (Chris Bothen) – 3:44 "Moving Pictures for the Ear" (Bothen, Cherry) – 9:40 "Tibet" – 7:59 Recorded at Studio Decibel in Stockholm, Sweden on April 30 (tracks 2–4) and May 1 (tracks 1 & 5), 1973.
Personnel Don Cherry – trumpet, piano, harmonium, vocals, h'suan, daster, gong Bengt Berger – piano, Tibetan bells, African finger piano, mridangam, cymbal Christer Bothén – piano, ,this looks like an error for donso ngoni Tibetan bells Bernt Rosengren – tárogató Agneta Ernström – Tibetan bells, this looks like an error for "donso karinya", a scraper often associated with the ngoni
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