Yusef Lateef records ‘Eastern Sounds’ for Moodsville (1961)

Yusef Lateef‘s ‘Eastern Sounds’ is an album exploring Middle Eastern music and recorded on September 5, 1961 and released the same year by Moodsville.

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Track Listing : 1.The Plum Blossom (Yusef Lateef) – 05:03 . 2.Blues For The Orient (Yusef Lateef) – 05:40 . 3.Chinq Miau (Yusef Lateef) – 03:20 . 4.Don’T Blame Me (Jimmy Mchugh) – 04:57 . 5.Love Theme From Spartacus (Alex North) – 04:15 . 6.Snafu (Yusef Lateef) – 05:42 . 7.Purple Flower (Yusef Lateef) – 04:32 . 8.Love Theme From The Robe (Alfred Newman) – 04:02 . 9.The Three Faces Of Balal (Yusef Lateef) – 02:23

Musicians : Yusef Lateef – Flute, Oboe, Tenor Saxophone, Xun/Chinese Globular Flute . Barry Harris – Piano . Ernie Farrow – Double Bass, Rabaab/Rabat . Lex Humphries – Drums

Production : Produced By Esmond Edwards Rudy Van Gelder – Engineer

Package : Don Schlitten – Cover Photo . Joe Goldberg – Liner Notes

Recorded On September 5, 1961 At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Released In 1961 By Moodsville.

(Source Yusef Lateef @ Wikipedia)

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Sputnikmusic.com
Eastern Sounds combines the highest echelon of hard bop jazz with Eastern melodies and instruments to create an album that is timeless and always original. The experimentation of the album is impressive, but the album’s accessibility is even more impressive, […]

PopMatters
Anyone with an interest in cosmic jazz and the mind-blowing excursions of mid-to-late ‘60s African-American music owes it to themselves to hear this neglected masterpiece: A quiet and tentative opening of the door that would be blasted wide in years to come […]

All About Jazz
In light of Lateef’s subsequent career, there can be no doubting his commitment to either spiritual growth or world musical fusion (he would become a music professor in Nigeria for many years). […]

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