Hear & Now (Don Cherry album)

The AllMusic review by Andrew Hamilton stated: "An average collection from Cherry, respectable and inoffensive".[2]

In a review for All About Jazz, Chris May warned: "if you only acquire one Don Cherry album in your life, don't acquire this one," and commented: "There are some great musicians on the album... but it's not enough to lift the proceedings."[1]

Phil Johnson, writing for The Independent, stated: "It's all over the place stylistically, from Indian mysticism to heavy metal, played by bizarre bands... And yet at least a couple of the tracks... are amazing, presaging Bill Laswell's funky world-fusion."[4]

All compositions by Don Cherry except as indicated

1. "Mahakali" – 9:50
2. "Universal Mother" (Sherab-Barry Bryant, Cherry) – 6:46
3. "Karmapa Chenno" – 7:14
4. "California" – 2:51
5. "Buddha's Blues" – 3:40
6. "Eagle Eye" – 0:55
7. "Surrender Rose" (Narada Michael Walden) – 3:32
8. "Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/The Ending Movement-Liberation [from Welkin of Infinity]" (Cherry/Cherry/Stan Samole) – 10:12

• Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York in December 1976.

• Don Cherry – trumpet, bells, conch, flute, vocals
• Michael Brecker – saxophone
• Collin Walcott – sitar
• Moki Cherry – tamboura
• Ronald Dean Miller, Stan Samole – guitar
• Lois Colin – harp
• Cliff Carter – keyboards
• Narada Michael Walden – piano, timpani, tom tom
• Marcus Miller, Neil Jason – bass
• Sammy Figueroa – congas
• Tony Williams, Lenny White, Steve Jordan – drums
• Raphael Cruz – percussion
• Cheryl Alexander – vocals
• Patty Scialfa – vocals