Jazz and the Sounds of Nature

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Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
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Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedOctober 9–10, 1957
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Savoy
MG 12120
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Yusef Lateef chronology
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef
(1957)
Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
(1958)
Prayer to the East
(1957)

Jazz and the Sound of Nature is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars. [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

  1. "Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
  2. "Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
  3. "Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
  4. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
  5. "8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
  6. "Check Blues" - 6:40
  7. "Gypsy Arab" (Harden) - 3:26

Personnel

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References

  1. Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 18, 2012
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review, accessed July 18, 2012