Eastern Sounds
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| Released | April 1962 | |||
| Recorded | September 5, 1961 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
| Genre | Hard bop Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 39:54 | |||
| Label | Moodsville MVLP 22 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Yusef Lateef chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |  [1] |
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,[2] generally called xun.[3] 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.[4] 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.
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
- 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
- ^ Jurek, Thom. Eastern Sounds at AllMusic
- ^ All About Jazz
- ^ Naxos
- ^ "Boston Phoenix". Archived from the original on 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2006-11-11.
