Multikulti (album) explained

Multikulti
Type:	Album
Artist:	Don Cherry
Cover:	Multikuti (album).jpg
Released:	1990
Recorded:	December 27, 1988 November 7, 8 & 29, 1989 January 20, 1990 February 23, 1990
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	55:44
Label:	A&M
Producer:	David Cherry & John L. Price
Chronology:	Don Cherry
Prev Title:	Art Deco
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Dona Nostra
Next Year:	1993

Multikulti is an album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recorded between 1988 and 1990 and released in 1991 on the A&M label.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "As a standalone single CD, this recording, done over a three-year period and more than any other from Don Cherry, represents a full spectrum overview of all the phases in his nomadic adult musical life".^[2] The Calgary Herald dismissed the album as "another selection of National Geographic sounds."^[3]

Writer Michael Stephans commented that "the recording is vintage world music Cherry, and is mostly very enjoyable."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated

1. "Trumpet" – 0:45
2. "Multikulti Soothsayer" – 5:26
3. "Flute" – 1:08
4. "Birdboy – 4:41
5. "Melodica" – 1:26
6. "Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo" – 4:23
7. "Pettiford Bridge" (Carlos Ward) – 4:44
8. "Piano / Trumpet" – 2:25
9. "Until The Rain Comes" (Peter Apfelbaum) – 12:17
10. "Divinity-Tree" – 5:14
11. "Rhumba Multikulti" (Don Cherry, Josh Jones, Robert Huffman) – 4:10
12. "Multikulti Soothsayer Player" – 4:27

• Recorded at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California (track 4) on 27 December 1988, at Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley, California on 7 November 1989 (tracks 9 & 10) and 8 November 1989 (track 11), at BMG Recording Studios in New York City on 20 November 1989 (tracks 6 & 7) and 20 January 1990 (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8 & 12), and at Serafine Studios in Santa Monica, California, on 23 February 1990 (track 2)

Personnel

• Don Cherry — pocket trumpet, doussn'gouni, vocals, flute, melodica, piano
• A Watts Prophet, Anthony Hamilton, Ingrid Sertso – vocals
• Frank Serafine, David Cherry – synthesizer
• John L. Price – drum programming
• Bo Freeman – bass
• Mark London Sims – bass
• Karl Berger – marimba, vocals
• Bob Stewart – tuba
• Carlos Ward – alto saxophone
• Naná Vasconcelos – percussion
• Ed Blackwell, Deszon X. Claiborne – drums
• Peter Apfelbaum – tenor saxophone, cowbell, marimba, organ, synthesizer, bells, gong, palitos, vocals
• Jessica Jones, Tony Jones – tenor saxophone
• Joshua Jones – drums, timbales, cowbell, vocals
• Robert Huffman – congas, bell tree, vocals
• Peck Allmond – baritone saxophone
• Jeff Cressman – trombone, vocals
• Frank Ekeh – shekere, dunun, vocals
• Stan Franks, Will Bernard – guitar
• James Harvey – trombone
• Bill Ortiz – trumpet, vocals
• Allen Ginsberg, Claudia Engelhart, Karen Knight – chorus

Notes and References

1. http://www.eagle-eye-cherry.com/doncherrydisco.html Don Cherry discography
2. Nastos, M. G. AllMusic Review accessed December 9, 2011
3. News: Brennan . Brian . Jazz Discs . Calgary Herald . 11 Nov 1990 . G5.
4. Book: Stephans, Michael . Experiencing Ornette Coleman: A Listener's Companion . Rowman & Littlefield . 2017 . 122 .