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Genre : Jazz Catalogue Number : 612
Format : CD Label : Original Jazz Classi
Issued : 16 Sep 1996 Item sourced from : USA
Original Release Year : 1961   
Number of Discs : 1

Eastern Sounds

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  • CD   US Edition   ¥1,584   Reissue CD (US Import)   Released: 18 Jul 2006  
  • LP   EUR Edition   ¥1,670   Reissue LP (EUR Import)   Released: 06 Jan 2009  

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One of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef's most enduring recordings, Eastern Sounds was one of the last recordings made by the band that Lateef shared with pianist Barry Harris after the band moved to New York from Detroit, where the jazz scene was already dying. Lateef had long been interested in Eastern music, long before John Coltrane had ever shown any public interest anyway, so this Moodsville session (which meant it was supposed to be a laid-back ballad-like record), recorded in 1961, was drenched in Lateef's current explorations of Eastern mode and interval, as well as tonal and polytonal improvisation. That he could do so within a context that was accessible, and even pretty, is an accomplishment that stands today. The quartet was rounded out by the inimitable Lex Humphries on drums -- whose brushwork was among the most deft and inventive of any player in the music with the possible exception of Connie Kay from the Modern Jazz Quartet -- and bass and rabat player Ernie Farrow. The set kicks off with The Plum Blossom, a sweet oboe and flute piece that comes from an Eastern scale and works in repetitive rhythms and a single D minor mode to move through a blues progression and into something a bit more exotic, which sets up the oboe-driven Blues for the Orient. Never has Barry Harris' playing stood up with more restraint to such striking effect than it does here. He moves the piece along with striking ostinatos and arpeggios that hold the center of the tune rather than stretch it. Lateef moans softly on the oboe as the rhythm section doubles, then triples, then half times the beat until it all feels like a drone. There are two cinematic themes here -- he cut themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, which are strikingly, hauntingly beautiful -- revealing just how important accessibility was to Lateef. And not in the sense of selling out, but more in terms of bringing people to this music he was not only playing, but discovering as well. (Listen to Les Baxter and to the early-'60s recordings of Lateef -- which ones are more musically enduring?) However, the themes set up the deep blues and wondrous ballad extrapolations Lateef was working on, like Don't Blame Me and Purple Flower, which add such depth and dimension to the Eastern-flavored music that it is hard to imagine them coming from the same band. Awesome. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Credits

Barry Harris(Piano),  Ernie Farrow(Bass),  Lex Humphries(Drums),  Yusef Lateef(Flute),  Yusef Lateef(Sax (Tenor)),  Yusef Lateef(Oboe),  Yusef Lateef(Bamboo Flute),  Ernie Farrow(Rabat),  Rudy Van Gelder(Engineer),  Barry Harris(Performer),  Don Schlitten(Cover Photo),  Joe Goldberg(Liner Notes),  Rudy Van Gelder(Remastering),  Yusef Lateef(Composer),  Yusef Lateef(Performer),  Esmond Edwards(Supervisor),  Nick Phillips(Reissue Producer),  Rikka Arnold(Project Assistant),  Stuart Kremsky(Production Assistant),  Stuart Kremsky(Research),  Terri Hinte(Project Assistant),  Barry Harris,  Ernie Farrow,  Lex Humphries,  Rudy Van Gelder(Author)

Songs

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    Plum Blossom, The  (04:55)
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    2
    Blues For the Orient  (05:37)
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    3
    Chinq Miau  (03:17)
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    4
    Don't Blame Me  (04:55)
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    5
    Love Theme From Spartacus  (04:12)
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    6
    Snafu  (05:38)
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    7
    Purple Flower  (04:29)
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    8
    Love Theme From the Robe  (04:00)
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    9
    Three Faces of Balal, The  (02:18)

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    太郎  |  愛知県  |  不明  |  28/July/2010

    オリジナルのLPは高額でなかなか手に入れる機会がが無い方はまず、この一枚から是非!内容はスピリチュアルな感覚はありますが全体通して楽しめます。

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    gondwana  |  shinsyu.jp  |  不明  |  28/September/2005

    5曲目の Love Theme from ”Spartacus” このアルバムはこの一曲のために買っても損はない。いや、この曲のために買うアルバムです。 ジャズファンのみならず、音楽を聴く人皆に聴いてもらいたい演奏。 Excelent!!!

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    tnakag41  |  広島県大竹市  |  不明  |  29/December/2004

    Love Theme From Spartacus最高ですね! てか、上のsebajuN さんって本物ですか? 大ファンです!!!!!

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