''Eternal Rhythm'' is a jazz album composed by

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label reissued the album along with '' Where Is Brooklyn?'' on the compilation ''Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm Revisited'', albeit shortened by more than three minutes.

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review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 5 stars stating "''Eternal Rhythm'' is Don Cherry's masterwork and one of the single finest recordings from the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s. It is required listening".Olewnick, B
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, Jennifer Lucy Allan called the album "the connecting piece between the pace, tension and excitement of Cherry's free jazz playing in Ornette Coleman's groups, and the relaxed invitation to international and folk forms of rhythm that came later." She commented: "I hear this album as movement between moments, and am lifted from my seat with sheer joy, any time I hear the marching theme land 12 minutes into Part One, after the frenetic generations of the rhythm section and Sonny Sharrock's guitar are batted away by Cherry's trumpet herald, and the band falls into step for a few brief and triumphant turns around the parade ground."

Track listing

1. "Eternal Rhythm Part I" - 17:49 (

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) *a. Baby's Breath *b. "Sonny Sharrock" *c. Turkish Prayer *d. Crystal Clear (exposition) *e. Endless Beginnings *f. Baby's Breath (unaccompanied) 2. "Eternal Rhythm Part II" - 23:40 (Cherry) *a. Autumn Melody *b. Lanoo *c. Crystal Clear (Development) *d. Screaming J *e. Always Beginnings

Personnel

- cornet, gender and saron (gamelan), Bengali, flute in A, bamboo flute in C, metal flute in B flat, plastic flute in C, Haitian Guard, Northern Bells, voice * Albert Mangelsdorff -

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- trombone * Bernt Rosengren - tenor saxophone, oboe, clarinet, flute *

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- vibraphone, piano, gender (gamelan) *

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- piano, prepared piano *

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- drums, saron (gamelan), gong, bells, voice *Cover and layout: Heinz Bähr

References

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