Cry! – Tender
| Cry! – Tender | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 1960 | |||
| Recorded | October 16, 1959, October 11, 1957 (#8) | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs & Hackensack, New Jersey (#8) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 37:11 | |||
| Label | New Jazz NJLP 8234 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Yusef Lateef chronology | ||||
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Cry! – Tender is an album by American multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.[1]
Reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [3] |
The AllMusic site stated: "Lateef was already moving away from what most people would call jazz by this time, yet, as evidenced here, his music remained challenging and very accessible. This is meditative music with a stunningly rich rhythmic palette for how muted and edgeless it is. And, like John Cage or Morton Feldman, the absence of those edges was written in; it's not random".[2]
Track listing[edit]
All compositions by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.
- "Seabreeze" (Larry Douglas, Fred Norman, Rommie Bearden) – 3:11
- "Dopolous" – 3:18
- "Cry! – Tender" – 6:00
- "Butter's Blues" – 5:45
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:24
- "The Snow Is Green" – 3:13
- "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 4:49
- "Ecaps" – 6:30
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 16, 1959 except for track 8 recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on October 11, 1957
Personnel[edit]
- Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute (track 2), oboe (tracks 1,3 and 5)
- Lonnie Hillyer – trumpet (tracks 2-7)
- Wilbur Harden – flugelhorn (track 8)
- Hugh Lawson – piano (tracks 1-7)
- Ernie Farrow (track 8), Herman Wright (tracks 1-7) – bass
- Frank Gant (tracks 1-7), Oliver Jackson (track 8) – drums, percussion
References[edit]
- ^ Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 19, 2012
- ^ a b Jurek, T. AllMusic Review, accessed July 19, 2012
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
