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Long Before Our Mothers Cried

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Released
  
1974

Artist
  
Sonny Fortune

Producer
  
Sonny Fortune

Genre
  
Jazz

Long Before Our Mothers Cried (1974)
  
Awakening (1975)

Release date
  
1974

Label
  
Shout Productions

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Recorded
  
September 8 & September 15, 1974 at Minot Studio, White Plains, N.Y.

Similar
  
Sonny Fortune albums, Jazz albums

Long Before Our Mothers Cried is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1974 and released on the Strata-East label.

Contents

Reception

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Long Before Our Mothers Cried a "B+" and admired Fortune's "commitment to plain good music", spanning bebop to free jazz styles, and wrote of the album, "despite even the bracing piano comps of Stanley Cowell, there's nothing compelling here. But satisfying." Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic gave it three out of five stars, calling it "a fully realized creative album and very listenable as well".

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Fortune

  1. "Long Before Our Mothers Cried" - 14:25
  2. "A Tribute to a Holiday (Billie)" - 5:51
  3. "Sound of Silents" - 8:41
  4. "Five for Trane" - 6:26
  5. "Wayneish" - 6:37

Personnel

  • Sonny Fortune - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Charles Sullivan - trumpet
  • Stanley Cowell - piano, electric piano
  • Wayne Dockery - bass
  • Chip Lyle - drums
  • Mario Muñoz - bass drum, timbales
  • Angel Allende - congas, triangle, tambourine
  • Richie Pablo Landrum - percussion

    • Songs

    1Long Before Our Mothers Cried14:25
    2A Tribute to a Holiday (Billie)5:51
    3Sound of Silents8:41

    References

    Long Before Our Mothers Cried Wikipedia
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