{{short description|1977 studio album by Collin Walcott}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Grazing Dreams | type = Album | artist = Collin Walcott | cover = Grazing Dreams.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1977}} | recorded = {{Start date|1977|02}} | venue = | studio = Talent Studio<br>Oslo, Norway | genre = Jazz | length = 46:19 | label = ECM<br>ECM 1096 ST | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Collin Walcott | prev_title = Cloud Dance | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = Dawn Dance | next_year = 1981 }} '''''Grazing Dreams''''' is the second album by American sitarist and composer Collin Walcott, recorded in February 1977 and released on ECM later that year. Walcott's quintet features trumpeter Don Cherry and rhythm section John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson, and Dom Um Romão.<ref name="ECM discography">[https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/143038750755/grazing-dreams-collin-walcott ECM discography] accessed April 6, 2021</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">Nastos, M. G.[https://www.allmusic.com/album/grazing-dreams-r149593 AllMusic Review] accessed September 8, 2011</ref> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/200 200] }}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="penguin">{{cite book | last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian | title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD | publisher=Penguin Books | year=1998| pages=1525–1526 }}</ref> }} Writing for ''All About Jazz'', John Kelman called the album "a truly deep recording that makes Walcott's death in a car accident while on tour with Oregon... all the more tragic", and noted that Walcott was "truly one of the earliest musicians to explore the integration of music from other cultures into an improvised jazz setting."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/collin-walcott-grazing-dreams-collin-walcott-ecm-records-review-by-john-kelman.php |title=Collin Walcott: Grazing Dreams |last=Kelman |first=John |date=December 23, 2014 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=April 6, 2021}}</ref>
''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' states, "The quartet format ... inevitably anticipates Walcott's and Cherry's work with Codona, and the long 'Song of the Morrow' is a perfect encapsulation of the group's idiom."<ref name="penguin" />
In an post on ECM blog ''Between Sound and Space'', Tyran Grillo wrote: "''Grazing Dreams'' is structured as long-form whole in which individual tracks blend into the overarching power that binds them," and commented: "The engineering of this album is ahead of its time. Considering the way each track evolves, an attuned sensibility was clearly required to bring out the music's full breadth. Case in point: the way the buzzing solitude that opens 'Gold Sun' gradually develops into a honeyed elaboration of sitar and bass is nothing short of astonishing. Each tune is spun from the same cloth, dyed in real time with the languid syncopation of improvisers who feel what they hear. Gentility through strength is the backbone of ''Grazing Dreams'', a poignant and timeless statement spun from the ether of dreams."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecmreviews.com/2010/02/14/grazing-dreams |title=Collin Walcott: Grazing Dreams |last=Grillo |first=Tyran |date=February 14, 2010 |website=Between Sound and Space |access-date=April 6, 2021}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Collin Walcott except as indicated | headline = Side I: Changeless Faith | title1 = Song of the Morrow | length1 = 9:15 | title2 = Gold Sun | length2 = 7:03 | writer2 = {{hlist|Don Cherry|Collin Walcott}} | title3 = The Swarm | length3 = 6:09 | title4 = Mountain Morning | length4 = 1:58 | total_length = 24:25 }}{{Track listing | headline = Side II | title1 = Jewel Ornament | length1 = 5:04 | writer1 = {{hlist|Cherry|John Abercrombie|Walcott}} | title2 = Grazing Dreams | length2 = 6:53 | title3 = Samba Tala | length3 = 1:30 | music3 = | writer3 = {{hlist|Dom Um Romão|Walcott}} | title4 = Moon Lake | length4 = 8:27 | total_length = 21:54 46:19 }}
==Personnel==
===Musicians=== *Collin Walcott – sitar, tabla *Don Cherry – trumpet, wood flute, doussn' gouni *John Abercrombie – guitar, electric mandolin *Palle Danielsson – bass *Dom Um Romão – percussion, tambourine, berimbau
===Technical personnel=== * Manfred Eicher – producer * Jan Erik Kongshaug – recording engineer * Henry Riedel – mastering * Dieter Bonhorst – layout * Franco Fontana – photography
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