Eastern Sounds
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| Studio album by Yusef Lateef | ||||
| Released | April 1962 | |||
| Recorded | September 5, 1961 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
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| Genre |
Hard bop Jazz fusion |
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| Length | 39:54 | |||
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Moodsville MVLP 22 |
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| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
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Eastern Sounds is an album by jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1961. The album features Lateef's continued exploration of Middle Eastern music, which were incorporated into his version of hard bop with a quartet featuring Barry Harris on piano. The opening track features Lateef on Chinese globular flute, generally called xun. The fusing of musical genres was not a new thing in jazz or for Lateef as his 1957 album Prayer to the East incorporated the shehnai and Middle Eastern influences in playing jazz standards. Aside from Lateef's original compositions, there are covers of themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, the last one being used as samples by Blockhead and Nujabes.
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