Where Is Brooklyn? Review by Steve Huey. Track Listing. Awake Nu. Don Cherry. Taste Maker. The Thing. There Is the Bomb. Genre Jazz. Awake Nu Don Cherry. Spotify Amazon. Taste Maker Don Cherry. Home » Articles » Album Review.
The five selections have no themes or structures. Rather, they are filled with turbulent rhythms that allow for a surplus of free improvisation by each member of the quartet.
Each composition is a blank canvas upon which each musician paints his own picture. Cherry and and a year-old Sanders continually play off each other, taking the music further out, painting scenes of clashing bright reds and greens. The best is the seventeen-minute closer, "Unite," with its stormy, explosive playing, allowing each musician to stretch out more than the album's other shorter compositions. Where Is Brooklyn? There are no melodies or toe-tapping beats. The playing is in-your-face, take-no-prisoners stuff.
While certainly not an easy listen, it is still rewarding due to the heartfelt playing. Remastered in crisp and clear bit resolution, the sound quality is excellent. For jazz fans curious about the avant-garde, the challenging music on Where Is Brooklyn? How we rate: our writers tend to review music they like within their preferred genres.
Learn more about our star rating system. But saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, who joins him on this fizzing set, has since ascended to cult status, and he is still around to admire - as collections from Universal, such as the newly released Anthology and Elevation, confirm.
In the s, he knew no melodic fear at all, in which respect he was aptly partnered with Cherry. This is a quartet set, strongly influenced by the melodic approach of Coleman, but with a fierce abstraction of tone quite different from Coleman's playful lyricism.
Moreover, the rhythm team of Ed Blackwell on drums and Henry Grimes on bass provides a scintillating underpinning for the music that is worth listening to all on its own.
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