Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef

Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef
Studio album by Yusef Lateef
Released 1957
Recorded April 16, 1957
WOR Recording Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
MGV-8217
Yusef Lateef chronology

Jazz Mood
(1957)
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef
(1957)
Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
(1957)

Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label.[1] The album was produced from Lateef's third recording session under his leadership.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "This is one of the most obscure of all Yusef Lateef recordings... the set is more bop-oriented than normal... showing how strong and original Lateef could be even playing conventional straight-ahead material. Some of the other pieces look toward the future and/or the East, and all eight selections have their memorable moments... Recommended."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

  1. "Passion" - 4:04
  2. "Love Is Eternal" - 6:30
  3. "Pike's Peak" - 5:30
  4. "Open Strings" - 6:15
  5. "Before Dawn" - 5:27
  6. "Twenty-Five Minute Blues" - 5:27
  7. "Chang, Chang, Chang" - 2:57
  8. "Constellation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:47

Personnel

References

  1. Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 17, 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed July 18, 2012