Comments on: Cherry, Don — Brown Rice

By: massimo

massimo — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:32:38 +0000

On night I had the chance to hear Cherry trumpeting freely, somewhere in Italy in 1979 and his music really impressed me!30 years after he is still a legend to me…
thanks to Kai Weatherman for sharing.
peace&love

By: Kai Weatherman

Kai Weatherman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Re: Track 3: Chenrezig. The reviewer noted that Cherry’s “chant-like singing sounds like a spiritual or a call to prayer, giving the song a powerful message that transcends its unintelligible lyrics.” The lyrics are unintelligible only if the listener is not familar with the Tibetan language. Cherry is, in fact, chanting a traditional Buddhist vow in Tibetan, along with associated mantras. So, not only does his vocal sound like a prayer, it IS in essence a prayer. Chenrezig is the Tibetan name of a prominent Buddhist mythic deity, of which the Dalai Lama is considered a manifestation. Chenrezig is also known as Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, Kuan Yin in Chinese, and Kannon in Japanese. Don Cherry was a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.

By: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart » Selten gehörte Musik|Musikprogramm von Thomas Andre

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:00:11 +0000

[...] Don Cherry: Brown Rice (1974) “There is joy laced with confidence in this music, and sadness, or pathos, that is as much connected to the Blues as it is to the huge yearning of that sound in Eastern music… Throughout the record, one can hear the melding of Third World music and mysticism with Western instruments.” (From Stanley Crouch’s original liner notes to Brown Rice) http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/ [...]