Home Boy

by Don Cherry

Home Boy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Barclay
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:57
  • Community rating: 3.07/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Paris with producer Ramuntcho Matta, this wildly unexpected project saw the avant-garde free jazz pioneer embracing contemporary electronic rhythms and dub reggae. 'Home Boy' prominently features Cherry singing softly over early drum machine loops, synthesizers, and his signature pocket trumpet, effectively transforming into an eccentric urban pop vocalist. The highly uncharacteristic, stylized album deeply alienated jazz purists while predicting the eclectic genre-blending of later trip-hop artists.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion

Tracklist

  1. Treat Your Lady Right (6:07)
  2. Rappin' Recipe (7:19)
  3. Call Me (4:33)
  4. Reggae To The High Tower (4:09)
  5. Bamako Love (5:23)
  6. Butterfly Friend (3:43)
  7. I Walk (3:11)
  8. Alphabet City (3:40)
  9. Art Deco (2:52)

Credits

  • Don Cherry - primary artist, lyrics by, music by, vocals, ngoni [doussn' gouni], trumpet [trompinette], piano, synthesizer, melodica, rap [improvisation]
  • Jannick Top - bass
  • Negrito Trasante-Crocco - bongos, congas, talking drum, drum machine [rythm box]
  • Claude Salmieri - drums
  • Moki Cherry - lyrics by [introduction]
  • Fil Mong - bass
  • Jean-Pierre Coco - congas
  • Abdoulaye Prosper Niang - drums

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