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Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef

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Released
  
February 1958

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Verve Records

Artist
  
Yusef Lateef

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 16, 1957 WOR Recording Studios, New York City

Before Dawn The Music of Yusef Lateef (1957)
  
Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957)

Similar
  
Yusef Lateef albums, Jazz albums

Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label. The album was produced from Lateef's third recording session under his leadership.

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Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "This is one of the most obscure of all Yusef Lateef recordings... the set is more bop-oriented than normal... showing how strong and original Lateef could be even playing conventional straight-ahead material. Some of the other pieces look toward the future and/or the East, and all eight selections have their memorable moments... Recommended."

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

  1. "Passion" - 4:04
  2. "Love Is Eternal" - 6:30
  3. "Pike's Peak" - 5:30
  4. "Open Strings" - 6:15
  5. "Before Dawn" - 5:27
  6. "Twenty-Five Minute Blues" - 5:27
  7. "Chang, Chang, Chang" - 2:57
  8. "Constellation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:47

Personnel

  • Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, arghul, percussion
  • Curtis Fuller - trombone
  • Hugh Lawson - piano, celesta (track 4)
  • Ernie Farrow - bass, rebab
  • Louis Hayes - drums

    • Songs

    1Passion4:07
    2Love Is Eternal6:35
    3Pike's Peak5:34

    References

    Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef Wikipedia
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