Jazz 'Round the World

by Yusef Lateef

Jazz 'Round the World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1964
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:04
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Jazz 'Round the World' reflects Yusef Lateef's long-standing interest in non-Western instruments, scales, and folk materials within a modern jazz framework. The album expands hard bop and modal jazz vocabulary through global musical references without abandoning small-group improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Abana (2:20)
  2. India (4:09)
  3. You, So Tender And Wistful (2:29)
  4. Yusef's French Brother (4:10)
  5. The Volga Rhythm Song (2:03)
  6. Trouble In Mind (3:12)
  7. The Good Old Roast Beef Of England (2:31)
  8. Raisins And Almonds (3:05)
  9. Utopia (2:47)
  10. Ringo Oiwake (4:18)

Credits

  • Yusef Lateef - primary artist, tenor saxophone, bassoon, oboe, flute, shenai, written-by, arranged by
  • Ernie Farrow - bass
  • Lex Humphries - drums
  • Hugh Lawson - piano
  • Richard Williams - trumpet
  • Babatunde Olatunji - written-by
  • Richard M. Jones - written-by
  • Abraham Goldfaden - written-by

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