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
- "Passion" - 4:04
- "Love Is Eternal" - 6:30
- "Pike's Peak" - 5:30
- "Open Strings" - 6:15
- "Before Dawn" - 5:27
- "Twenty-Five Minute Blues" - 5:27
- "Chang, Chang, Chang" - 2:57
- "Constellation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:47
Personnel
Songs
1Passion4:07
2Love Is Eternal6:35
3Pike's Peak5:34
References
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA