"Mu" First Part / "Mu" Second Part

by Don Cherry

"Mu" First Part / "Mu" Second Part cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: BYG Actuel
  • Country: United States

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally released as two separate LPs in 1969, this compilation reunites Don Cherry's deeply mystical Paris recording sessions. Performing in a highly intuitive duo setting alongside percussionist Ed Blackwell, Cherry abandons traditional jazz structures to incorporate bamboo flutes, bells, and indigenous pan-global instrumentation. The sprawling, highly spiritual improvisations established a profound new template for the integration of global folk traditions within the avant-garde jazz movement.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, avant-garde, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Brilliant Action
  2. Omejelo
  3. Total Vibration - Part 1
  4. Total Vibration - Part 2
  5. Sun Of The East
  6. Terrestrial Beings
  7. The Mysticism Of My Sound
  8. Bamboo Night
  9. Teo-Teo Can
  10. Smiling Faces, Going Places
  11. Psycho Drama

Credits

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

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