Long Before Our Mothers Cried

Long Before Our Mothers Cried
Studio album by
Sonny Fortune
Released1974
RecordedSeptember 8 & September 15, 1974 at Minot Studio, White Plains, N.Y.
GenreJazz
LabelStrata-East
SES 7423
ProducerSonny Fortune
Sonny Fortune chronology
Trip on the Strip
(1966) 		Long Before Our Mothers Cried
(1974) 		Awakening
(1975)

Long Before Our Mothers Cried is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1974 and released on the Strata-East label.[1]

Reception

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Long Before Our Mothers Cried a "B+" and admired Fortune's "commitment to plain good music", spanning bebop to free jazz styles, and wrote of the album, "despite even the bracing piano comps of Stanley Cowell, there's nothing compelling here. But satisfying."[2] Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic gave it three out of five stars, calling it "a fully realized creative album and very listenable as well".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Fortune

  1. "Long Before Our Mothers Cried" - 14:25
  2. "A Tribute to a Holiday (Billie)" - 5:51
  3. "Sound of Silents" - 8:41
  4. "Five for Trane" - 6:26
  5. "Wayneish" - 6:37

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Sonny Fortune discography[usurped] accessed January 16, 2015
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (August 18, 1975). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Nastos, M. G., Allmusic Review accessed January 16, 2015