Released April 1962 Eastern Sounds
(1961) Into Something
(1961) Release date April 1962 Producer Esmond Edwards | Length 39:54 Artist Yusef Lateef Label Prestige Records Genres Hard bop, Jazz fusion | |
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Recorded September 5, 1961
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs Similar Yusef Lateef albums, Hard bop albums, Other albums | ||
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Eastern Sounds is an album by jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1961. The album features Lateef's continued exploration of Middle Eastern music, which were incorporated into his version of hard bop with a quartet featuring Barry Harris on piano. The opening track features Lateef on Chinese globular flute, generally called xun. The fusing of musical genres was not a new thing in jazz or for Lateef as his 1957 album Prayer to the East incorporated the shehnai and Middle Eastern influences in playing jazz standards. Aside from Lateef's original compositions, there are covers of themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, the last one being used as samples by Blockhead and Nujabes.
Contents
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Track listing
- "The Plum Blossom" (Yusef Lateef) – 5:03
- "Blues for the Orient" (Lateef) – 5:40
- "Chinq Miau" (Lateef) – 3:20
- "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh) – 4:57
- "Love Theme from Spartacus" (Alex North) – 4:15
- "Snafu" (Lateef) – 5:42
- "Purple Flower" (Lateef) – 4:32
- "Love Theme from The Robe" (Alfred Newman) – 4:02
- "The Three Faces of Balal" (Lateef) – 2:23
Personnel
Songs
1The Plum Blossom5:04
2Blues for the Orient5:41
3Chinq Miau3:20