Multikulti (album)

Multikulti is an album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recorded between 1988 and 1990 and released in 1991 on the A&M label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "As a standalone single CD, this recording, done over a three-year period and more than any other from Don Cherry, represents a full spectrum overview of all the phases in his nomadic adult musical life". The Calgary Herald dismissed the album as "another selection of National Geographic sounds."
Writer Michael Stephans commented that "the recording is vintage world music Cherry, and is mostly very enjoyable."

Track listing

"Trumpet" – 0:45
"Multikulti Soothsayer" – 5:26
"Flute" – 1:08
"Birdboy – 4:41
"Melodica" – 1:26
"Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo" – 4:23
"Pettiford Bridge" – 4:44
"Piano / Trumpet" – 2:25
"Until The Rain Comes" – 12:17
"Divinity-Tree" – 5:14
"Rhumba Multikulti" – 4:10
"Multikulti Soothsayer Player" – 4:27

Personnel

Don Cherry — pocket trumpet, doussn'gouni, vocals, flute, melodica, piano
A Watts Prophet, Anthony Hamilton, Ingrid Sertso – vocals
Frank Serafine, David Cherry – synthesizer
John L. Price – drum programming
Bo Freeman – bass
Mark London Sims – bass
Karl Berger – marimba, vocals
Bob Stewart – tuba
Carlos Ward – alto saxophone
Naná Vasconcelos – percussion
Ed Blackwell, Deszon X. Claiborne – drums
Peter Apfelbaum – tenor saxophone, cowbell, marimba, organ, synthesizer, bells, gong, palitos, vocals
Jessica Jones, Tony Jones – tenor saxophone
Joshua Jones – drums, timbales, cowbell, vocals
Robert Huffman – congas, bell tree, vocals
Peck Allmond – baritone saxophone
Jeff Cressman – trombone, vocals
Frank Ekeh – shekere, dunun, vocals
Stan Franks, Will Bernard – guitar
James Harvey – trombone
Bill Ortiz – trumpet, vocals
Allen Ginsberg, Claudia Engelhart, Karen Knight – chorus