Jazz and the Sounds of Nature

by Yusef Lateef

Jazz and the Sounds of Nature cover art
  • 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

  1. Sounds Of Nature
  2. Check Blues
  3. I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
  4. 8540 12th St
  5. Song Of Delilah
  6. Seulb
  7. Gypsy Arab

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

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