Music for the Fifth World

Music for the Fifth World is an album by Jack DeJohnette, featuring performances with Will Calhoun, Michael Cain, Vernon Reid, Lonnie Plaxico and John Scofield plus vocalists, recorded in 1992 and released on the Manhattan label in 1993.

Music for the Fifth World
Studio album by Jack DeJohnette
Released	1993
Recorded	February 1992
Genre	Jazz
Length	60:09
Label	Manhattan
Producer	Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette chronology
Earthwalk (1991) Music for the Fifth World (1993) Extra Special Edition (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music is stimulating if not as essential as DeJohnette's earlier work with Special Edition". A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums and described it as an "ambitious homage to Native American culture".

Track listing

All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated

1. "Fifth World Anthem" – 9:27
2. "Dohiyi Circle No. 1" (Joan Henry) – 2:56
3. "Miles" – 8:15
4. "Two Guitar Chant/Dohiyi (DeJohnette, Henry) – 5:16
5. "Deception Blues" – 4:55
6. "Witchi-Tai-To" (Jim Pepper additional lyrics by Henry) – 6:11
7. "Darkness to Light" – 12:34
8. "Dohiyi Circle No. 2" (Henry) – 2:25
9. "Aboriginal Dream Time" – 8:10

• Recorded at Clinton Studios, N.Y in February, 1992

Personnel

• Jack DeJohnette – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum, keyboards, keyboard bass, synthesizer, percussion
• Vernon Reid – guitar, vocals
• John Scofield – guitar
• Will Calhoun – drums, vocals, ceremonial drum
• Lonnie Plaxico – bass
• Michael Cain – piano, synthesizer
• Robert Rosario – vocals, ceremonial drum
• Denis Yerry – ceremonial drum
• Joan Henry – percussion, vocals
• Farah DeJohnette, Ethel Calhoun – vocals