"mu" Second Part

by Don Cherry

"mu" Second Part cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1970
  • Label: BYG Actuel
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:39
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing the legendary Parisian duo sessions recorded with drummer Ed Blackwell, this second installment delves even further into pan-global spiritual exploration. The deeply empathetic interplay balances fierce, Ornette Coleman-inspired free jazz with repetitive, tribal percussion and meditative flute interludes.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. The Mysticism of My Sound (3:57)
  2. Medley: Dollar Brand / Spontaneous Composing / Exert, Man on the Moon (3:19)
  3. Bamboo Night (6:09)
  4. Teo-Teo-Can (6:25)
  5. Smiling Faces Going Places (5:15)
  6. Psycho-Drama (2:32)
  7. Medley: Theme Albert Heath / Theme Dollar Brand / Baby Rest, Time for ... (4:00)

Credits

  • Don Cherry - primary artist, trumpet [pocket], piano, flute [indian], flute [bamboo], voice, bells, percussion, arranged by, written-by
  • Moki Cherry - artwork [front cover]
  • Ed Blackwell - drums, percussion, bells

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