Multikulti (album)

Multikulti
Multikulti
Studio album by Don Cherry
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
Don Cherry chronology

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 awarded the album 4 stars stating "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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated

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

References[]

^ Don Cherry discography Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed December 9, 2011
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed December 9, 2011

[Don_Cherry_discography-1] Don Cherry discography Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed December 9, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed December 9, 2011

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Studio albums	The Avant-Garde (1961) Complete Communion (1965) Symphony for Improvisers (1966) Where Is Brooklyn? (1966) Eternal Rhythm (1968) Blue Lake (1971) Organic Music Society (1972) Relativity Suite with Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1973) Eternal Now (1973) Orient (1974) Brown Rice (1975) Hear & Now (1976) El Corazón with Ed Blackwell (1982) Home Boy (Sister Out) (1985) Art Deco (1988) Multikulti (1991) Dona Nostra (1993)
with Old and New Dreams	Old and New Dreams (1976) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1980) A Tribute to Blackwell (1987)
with Codona	Codona (1979) Codona 2 (1981) Codona 3 (1983)
with New York Contemporary Five	Consequences (1963) Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)