''Eternal Now'' is an album by trumpeter Don Cherry recorded in 1973 and released on the Swedish Sonet label. accessed December 7, 2011
The album was reissued by Sonet on CD in 1996, paired with ''
Live Ankara
''Live Ankara'' (also known as ''Live in Ankara'') is a live album by trumpeter Don Cherry. It was recorded in November 1969 at the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, and was released on LP in 1978 by Sonet Records. On the album, Cherry is joined by thr ...
'', with the title ''The Sonet Recordings.''
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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 Allmusic Review accessed December 7, 2011
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'' 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."
Track listing
:''All composions 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.
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cymbal
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Bernt Rosengren
Bernt Rosengren (born 24 December 1937, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. His recordings earned him five Gyllene Skivan awards in Sweden over more than forty years.
Biography
Rosengren first played professionally at ag ...
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tárogató
The tárogató (''töröksíp'', ''Turkish pipe''; plural ''tárogatók'' or, anglicized, ''tárogatós''; ro, taragot or ''torogoata'') refers to two different woodwind instruments commonly used in both Hungarian and Romanian folk music. The ...
* Agneta Ernström – Tibetan bells, this looks like an error for "donso karinya", a scraper often associated with the ngoni