Eastern Sounds

Eastern Sounds
Studio album by
Yusef Lateef
ReleasedApril 1962 (1962-04)[1]
RecordedSeptember 5, 1961
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreHard bop
Length39:54
LabelMoodsville
MVLP 22
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Yusef Lateef chronology
Lost in Sound
(1961) 		Eastern Sounds
(1962) 		Into Something
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Eastern Sounds is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef. It was released in April 1962 through Prestige Records on their Moodsville imprint.[1] The recording was made in September 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,[4] generally called xun.[5] 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.[6] In addition to original compositions by Lateef, Eastern Sounds includes covers of themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, which have been sampled by producers Nujabes and Blockhead, respectively.

  1. ^ a b Ostrow, Marty, ed. (April 21, 1962). "April Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 39. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Jurek, Thom. Eastern Sounds at AllMusic
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ "Jazz Saxo-Flautists article". Allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2005. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  5. ^ "Naxos". Naxos.com. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  6. ^ "Boston Phoenix". Archived from the original on 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2006-11-11.