Eternal Now is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1973 and released on the Swedish Sonet label.[1]

The album was reissued by Sonet on CD in 1996, paired with Live Ankara, with the title The Sonet Recordings.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebB+[4]

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."[3]

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."[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated
  1. "Gamla Stan – The Old Town by Night" – 8:27
  2. "Love Train" – 7:50
  3. "Bass Figure for Ballatune" (Chris Bothen) – 3:44
  4. "Moving Pictures for the Ear" (Bothen, Cherry) – 9:40
  5. "Tibet" – 7:59
    • Recorded at Studio Decibel in Stockholm, Sweden on April 30 (tracks 2–4) and May 1 (tracks 1 & 5), 1973.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Eternal Now at Discogs (list of releases) accessed December 7, 2011
  2. ^ "Don Cherry: The Sonet Recordings: Eternal Now / Live Ankara". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 7, 2011
  4. ^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Don Cherry". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 245.
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  7. ^ this looks like an error for "donso karinya", a scraper often associated with the ngoni
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