Artist: Yusef Lateef
Title Of Album: Eastern Sounds
Year Of Release: 1961
Label: Prestige
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 39:57
Total Size: 227 MB(+5%)
Artist: Yusef Lateef
Title Of Album: Eastern Sounds
Year Of Release: 1961
Label: Prestige
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 39:57
Total Size: 227 MB(+5%)
Tracklist
01 — The Plum Blossom
02 — Blues for the Orient
03 — Chinq Miau
04 — Don’t Blame Me
05 — Love Theme From ‘Spartacus’
06 — Snafu
07 — Purple Flower
08 — Love Theme from ‘The Robe’
09 — The Three Faces of Balal
personnel :
Yusef Lateef — flute, oboe, tenor saxophone
Barry Harris — piano
Ernie Farrow — upright bass
Lex Humphries — drums
This 1961 release may be significant in the vast canon of jazz
recordings if only because it predates John Coltrane’s forays into
Eastern modal music. Coltrane didn’t really explore the connection
between jazz and Eastern musical styles until A LOVE SUPREME.
Certainly, it is widely accepted that Coltrane’s 1965 landmark
albums, TRANSITION, KULU SE MAMA, and ASCENSION firmly established
him as the main practitioner of Eastern influenced modal jazz.
However, on Lateef’s EASTERN SOUNDS, we hear the tenor man forging
new territory years prior to Coltrane’s experiments. Indeed, Lateef
draws many fine musical parallels between the music of the Orient
and American jazz on this outing.
Lateef’s experiments are quite successful on this recording, even
though the album’s conception is somewhat stymied by his mainstream
jazz roots. For example, a straight-up (albeit beautiful) version
of the standard «Don’t Blame Me» seems out of place with Lateef’s
own wacky compositions. Still, «The Plum Blossom,» «Chinq Miau» and
the outlandish album closer, «The Three Faces of Balal» are quite
compelling, making this record a valuable and unique asset to any
CD collection.