Cry! – Tender

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Released August 1960 Release date August 1960 Label Prestige Records		Artist Yusef Lateef Producer Esmond Edwards Genre Jazz

Recorded October 16, 1959Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack Cry! - Tender(1959) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef(1960) Similar Yusef Lateef albums, Jazz albums

Cry! – Tender is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Lateef was already moving away from what most people would call jazz by this time, yet, as evidenced here, his music remained challenging and very accessible. This is meditative music with a stunningly rich rhythmic palette for how muted and edgeless it is. And, like John Cage or Morton Feldman, the absence of those edges was written in; it's not random".

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

"Sea Breeze" (Dick Manning) - 3:11
"Dopolous" - 3:18
"Cry! - Tender" - 6:00
"Butter's Blues" - 5:45
"Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 4:24
"The Snow Is Green" - 3:13
"If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 4:49
"Ecaps" - 6:30

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 16, 1959 except for track 8 recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on October 11, 1957