Suite 16 (album)

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Suite 16
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 2, 1970
RecordedApril 6–9, 1970
Regent Sound Studios, New York City
June 24, 1970
Corner Studios, Cologne
Genre Jazz
Length34:54
Label Atlantic
SD 1563
Producer Joel Dorn
Yusef Lateef chronology
The Diverse Yusef Lateef
(1969)
Suite 16
(1970)
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(1970)
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Suite 16 is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1970 and released on the Atlantic label. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated.

  1. "Buddy and Lou" - 3:13
  2. "Down in Atlanta" - 4:15
  3. "Nocturne" - 4:02
  4. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright) - 3:20
  5. "Michelle" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 1:44
  6. "Symphonic Blues Suite: First Movement; Folia" - 2:21
  7. "Symphonic Blues Suite: Second Movement; Minuet (Hybrid, Atonal)" - 2:10
  8. "Symphonic Blues Suite: Third Movement; Blues (Twelve Measure Form) Variational Interlude" - 6:53
  9. "Symphonic Blues Suite: Fourth Movement; Passacaglia" - 2:06
  10. "Symphonic Blues Suite: Fifth Movement; Chorale / Sixth Movement; Blues (Extended Form)" - 2:13
  11. "Symphonic Blues Suite: Seventh Movement; Blues, Coda" - 2:37

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic Review, accessed July 20, 2012
  2. Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 20, 2012