Eastern Sounds
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Studio album by Yusef Lateef | ||||
Released | April 1962 (1962-04)[1] | |||
Recorded | September 5, 1961 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Hard bop | |||
Length | 39:54 | |||
Label | Moodsville MVLP 22 | |||
Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
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Eastern Sounds is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef. It was released in April 1962 through Prestige Records on their Moodsville imprint.[1] The recording was made in September 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,[4] generally called xun.[5] 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.[6] In addition to original compositions by Lateef, Eastern Sounds includes covers of themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, which have been sampled by producers Nujabes and Blockhead, respectively.
Track listing
- "The Plum Blossom" (Yusef Lateef) – 5:03
- "Blues for the Orient" (Lateef) – 5:40
- "Ching 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
Trivia
Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens was inspired by the melody of the opening track to write his first hit single "I Love My Dog" (1966). Lateef later received credits and royalties for it.[7]
Personnel
- Yusef Lateef – flute, oboe, tenor saxophone, xun (called "Chinese globular flute" in liner notes)
- Barry Harris – piano
- Ernie Farrow – double bass, Rabaab (called "rabat" in liner notes)
- Lex Humphries – drums
References
- ^ a b Ostrow, Marty, ed. (April 21, 1962). "April Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 39. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 2, 2023.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. Eastern Sounds at AllMusic
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Jazz Saxo-Flautists article". Allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2005. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ^ "Naxos". Naxos.com. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ^ "Boston Phoenix". Archived from the original on 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2006-11-11.
- ^ "Disc 1". In Search of the Centre of the Universe (booklet). Cat Stevens Box Set. Island Records. 2001. p. 64. 314 85 285-2.
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- Jazz for the Thinker (1957)
- Jazz Mood (1957)
- Before Dawn (1957)
- Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957)
- Prayer to the East (1957)
- The Sounds of Yusef (1957)
- Other Sounds (1957)
- Lateef at Cranbrook (1958)
- The Dreamer (1959)
- The Fabric of Jazz (1959)
- Cry! – Tender (1959)
- Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef|Contemplation (1960)
- The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960)
- The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960)
- Lost in Sound (1961)
- Eastern Sounds (1961)
- Into Something (1961)
- Jazz 'Round the World (1963)
- Live at Pep's (1964)
- 1984 (1965)
- Psychicemotus (1965)
- A Flat, G Flat and C (1966)
- The Golden Flute (1966)
- The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967)
- The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968)
- Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969)
- The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969)
- Suite 16 (1970)
- The Gentle Giant (1971)
- Hush 'N' Thunder (1972)
- Part of the Search (1973)
- 10 Years Hence (1974)
- The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976)
- Autophysiopsychic (1977)
- In a Temple Garden (1979)
- In Nigeria (1983)
- Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
album
- Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)
others
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s)
- Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955)
- Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960)
- My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960)
- 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
- Images of Curtis Fuller (1960)
- Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960)
- Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
- Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960)
- Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961)
- The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962)
- The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962)
- Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964)
- Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971)
- Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974)
- Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977)
- Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)