Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
by Yusef Lateef
- Type: Album
- Released: February 1958
- Label: Savoy
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 3.74/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Continuing to expand the instrumental boundaries of modern jazz, the multi-instrumentalist heavily incorporates the flute, oboe, and earth-toned percussion into this conceptually driven session. The compositions blur hard bop structures with early modal explorations and eastern-tinged melodies. The album is a vital early step toward the global-jazz fusion that would define his later career.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, avant-garde, instrumental
Tracklist
Credits
- Yusef Lateef - primary artist, tenor saxophone, flute, whistle [indian reed whistle], written-by
- Ernie Farrow - bass, other [earth board]
- Oliver Jackson - drums, gong [chinese]
- Wilbur Harden - flugelhorn, tambourine, written-by
- Hugh Lawson - piano, ocarina
- Duke Ellington - written-by
- Paul Francis Webster - written-by
- Jay Livingston - written-by