Where Is Brooklyn?

Where is Brooklyn?
Where is Brooklyn?
Studio album by Don Cherry
Released	1969
Recorded	November 11, 1966
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:52
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
Don Cherry chronology

Where Is Brooklyn? is an album by Don Cherry featuring Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, and Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states: "Where Is Brooklyn? is much more about energy and thoughtful group interaction than memorable themes, and so there's just a little something missing in comparison to Cherry's prior albums, even though they did also emphasize the qualities on display here. Nonetheless, it's still a fine record for what it does concentrate on; Sanders is in typically passionate form, and the rest of the ensemble members have already honed their interplay to a pretty sharp edge. It's worth hearing, even if it isn't as essential as Complete Communion or Symphony for Improvisers".^[1]

Legacy[]

Free jazz trio The Thing took their name from a track on the album.^[4]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Don Cherry

"Awake Nu" - 6:55
"Taste Maker" - 6:48
"The Thing" - 5:50
"There is the Bomb" - 4:51
"Unite" - 17:48

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 11, 1966

Personnel[]

Don Cherry: cornet
Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone, piccolo
Henry Grimes: bass
Ed Blackwell: drums

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Huey, Steve. Where is Brooklyn? at AllMusic. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Rogers, Jude (May 22, 2012). "Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz Can Be the Way You Make Love'". The Guardian.

External links[]

Where Is Brooklyn? at Discogs (list of releases)

[allmusic-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Huey, Steve. Where is Brooklyn? at AllMusic. Retrieved September 28, 2012.

[RSJRG-2] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[4] Rogers, Jude (May 22, 2012). "Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz Can Be the Way You Make Love'". The Guardian.

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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)