Jazz and the Sounds of Nature

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Released 1958 Release date 1958 Label Savoy Records		Artist Yusef Lateef Producer Ozzie Cadena Genre Jazz

Recorded October 9 & 10, 1957Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey Jazz and the Sound of Nature(1957) Prayer to the East(1957) Similar Prayer to the East, Before Dawn: The Music of, The Sounds of Yusef, Other Sounds, The Fabric of Jazz

Jazz and the Sound of Nature is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

"Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
"Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
"Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
"8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
"Check Blues" - 6:40
"Gypsy Arab" (Harden) - 3:26

Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, tambourine, Indian reed whistle

Wilbur Harden - flugelhorn, tambourine

Oliver Jackson - drums, gong

1Sounds Of Nature
2Check Blues
3I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

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