Music for the Fifth World explained

Music for the Fifth World
Type:	studio
Artist:	Jack DeJohnette
Cover:	Music for the Fifth World.jpg
Released:	1993
Recorded:	February 1992
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	60:09
Label:	Manhattan
Producer:	Jack DeJohnette
Prev Title:	Earthwalk
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Extra Special Edition
Next Year:	1995

Music for the Fifth World is an album by Jack DeJohnette, featuring performances with Will Calhoun, Michael Cain, Vernon Reid, Lonnie Plaxico and John Scofield plus vocalists, recorded in 1992 and released on the Manhattan label in 1993.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music is stimulating if not as essential as DeJohnette's earlier work with Special Edition".^[2] A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums and described it as an "ambitious homage to Native American culture".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated

"Fifth World Anthem" – 9:27
"Dohiyi Circle No. 1" (Joan Henry) – 2:56
"Miles" – 8:15
"Two Guitar Chant/Dohiyi (DeJohnette, Henry) – 5:16
"Deception Blues" – 4:55
"Witchi-Tai-To" (Jim Pepper additional lyrics by Henry) – 6:11
"Darkness to Light" – 12:34
"Dohiyi Circle No. 2" (Henry) – 2:25
"Aboriginal Dream Time" – 8:10

Recorded at Clinton Studios, N.Y in February, 1992

Personnel

Jack DeJohnette – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum, keyboards, keyboard bass, synthesizer, percussion
Vernon Reid – guitar, vocals
John Scofield – guitar
Will Calhoun – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum
Lonnie Plaxico – bass
Michael Cain – piano, synthesizer
Robert Rosario – vocals, ceremonial drum
Denis Yerry – ceremonial drum
Joan Henry – percussion, vocals
Farah DeJohnette, Ethel Calhoun – vocals

Notes and References

http://riad.usk.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/dejohnette/world.txt Jack DeJohnette discography
Yanow, Scott [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r167829|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed 11 September 2009
Milkowski . Bill . April 6, 2012 . DeJohnography . . May 30, 2020.