Cry! – Tender

Cry! – Tender
Studio album by
Yusef Lateef
ReleasedAugust 1960
RecordedOctober 16, 1959,
October 11, 1957 (#8)
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs &
Hackensack, New Jersey (#8)
GenreJazz
Length37:11
LabelNew Jazz
NJLP 8234
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Yusef Lateef chronology
The Fabric of Jazz
(1959) 		Cry! – Tender
(1960) 		The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef
(1960)

Cry! – Tender is an album by American multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

The AllMusic site stated: "Lateef was already moving away from what most people would call jazz by this time, yet, as evidenced here, his music remained challenging and very accessible. This is meditative music with a stunningly rich rhythmic palette for how muted and edgeless it is. And, like John Cage or Morton Feldman, the absence of those edges was written in; it's not random".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.

  1. "Seabreeze" (Larry Douglas, Fred Norman, Rommie Bearden) – 3:11
  2. "Dopolous" – 3:18
  3. "Cry! – Tender" – 6:00
  4. "Butter's Blues" – 5:45
  5. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:24
  6. "The Snow Is Green" – 3:13
  7. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 4:49
  8. "Ecaps" – 6:30
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 16, 1959 except for track 8 recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on October 11, 1957

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Yusef Lateef discography accessed July 19, 2012
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. AllMusic Review, accessed July 19, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.