Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
Studio album by Yusef Lateef
Released	1958
Recorded	October 9–10, 1957
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Label	Savoy MG 12120
Producer	Ozzie Cadena
Yusef Lateef chronology
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (1957) Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1958) Prayer to the East (1957)

Jazz and the Sound of Nature is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label.^[1]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.^[2]

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

1. "Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
2. "Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
3. "Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
4. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
5. "8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
6. "Check Blues" - 6:40
7. "Gypsy Arab" (Harden) - 3:26

• Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute - track 2, tambourine, Indian reed whistle
• Wilbur Harden - flugelhorn, tambourine
• Hugh Lawson - piano, ocarina
• Ernie Farrow - bass, rebab
• Oliver Jackson - drums, gong