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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

Jazz and the Sounds of Nature httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenbbeJaz

Recorded
  
October 9 & 10, 1957 Van 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.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

  1. "Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
  2. "Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
  3. "Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
  4. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
  5. "8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
  6. "Check Blues" - 6:40
  7. "Gypsy Arab" (Harden) - 3:26

Personnel

  • Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, tambourine, Indian reed whistle
  • Wilbur Harden - flugelhorn, tambourine
  • Hugh Lawson - piano, ocarina
  • Ernie Farrow - bass, rebab
  • Oliver Jackson - drums, gong

    • Songs

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

    References

    Jazz and the Sounds of Nature Wikipedia
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