Eternal Now
{{about|the album by Don Cherry|the philosophical concept|Eternal Now (New Age)}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Eternal Now
| type = studio
| artist = Don Cherry
| cover = Eternal Now.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1974
| recorded = April 30 and May 1, 1973
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = World music
| length = 37:40
| label = Sonet
| producer = Keith Knox
| chronology = Don Cherry
| prev_title = Relativity Suite
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Brown Rice
| next_year = 1974
}}
Eternal Now is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1973 and released on the Swedish Sonet label.{{discogs master|265321|Eternal Now}} accessed December 7, 2011
The album was reissued by Sonet on CD in 1996, paired with Live Ankara, with the title The Sonet Recordings.{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/don-cherry/the-sonet-recordings-eternal-now-live-ankara(compilation) |title=Don Cherry: The Sonet Recordings: Eternal Now / Live Ankara |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=August 9, 2022}}
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = Tom Hull – on the Web
}}
The AllMusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4 stars stating "the whole point is to explore new musical possibilities and commonalities among cultures. While the results do meander occasionally, Eternal Now on the whole remains a fresh, unpredictable listen."Huey, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/eternal-now-r567761/review Allmusic Review] accessed December 7, 2011
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Aficionados of the Scandinavian scene will cherish a track featuring the great tenorist Bernt Rosengren on tarogato... 'Love Train' is perhaps the most jazz-based piece on the session. The remaining tracks are squarely in the world music idiom that Cherry was to make his own in years to come."{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2006 |pages=245 }}
Track listing
:All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated
- "Gamla Stan – The Old Town by Night" – 8:27
- "Love Train" – 7:50
- "Bass Figure for Ballatune" (Chris Bothen) – 3:44
- "Moving Pictures for the Ear" (Bothen, Cherry) – 9:40
- "Tibet" – 7:59
- Recorded at Studio Decibel in Stockholm, Sweden on April 30 (tracks 2–4) and May 1 (tracks 1 & 5), 1973.
Personnel
- Don Cherry – trumpet, piano, harmonium, vocals, h'suan, daster, gong
- Bengt Berger – piano, Tibetan bells, African finger piano, mridangam, cymbal
- Christer Bothén – piano, {{sic|dousso n'koni}},this looks like an error for donso ngoni Tibetan bells
- Bernt Rosengren – tárogató
- Agneta Ernström – Tibetan bells, {{sic|dousso kynia}}this looks like an error for "donso karinya", a scraper often associated with the ngoni