Don Cherry - Mu or El Corazon -- which is better?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

El Corazon is on my desert island list, but I know many prefer the earlier collaboration between Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell, Mu (1&2). Which duet album do you like better?

[frankiepop]

i suspect that 'mu' is possibly more important since 'mu' fires hot off the heels of 'eternal rhythm', but i never could maintain my attention to 'mu' and i found love with 'el corazon.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

There's a raw excitement to Mu that the later album doesn't have. But El Corazon has a irresistibly calm beauty to it. And the music reflects Cherry's interest in world music to a greater degree, which I love.

[Brian L]

I like both albums, but I return to El Corazon frequently, and I don't listen to Mu all that much. I especially enjoy the version of Bemsha Swing on El Corazon, but I love the whole thing. It's the first LP I digitized onto CD-R when I got my CD-Recorder.

[baksheesh]

I love Mu to pieces, and I can't believe I haven't hear of El Corazon (nor indeed, that it's seemingly even better than Mu - although not according to the poll results), so thanks belatedly for the heads up guys!

[Pete C]

Moo!

[baksheesh]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Moo!

I take that to mean (in your usual elegantly eloquent fashion Mr. C) that you consider Mu to be the superior of the two release under discussion?

[lonely-at-the-top]

"Moo!" he said, than disappeared! Stuff for yet another block buster novel!

I'm with him anyways, and I tell you what: I'd join any army anytime that gets me marching to "Sun of the east"

Mu I say