Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef
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| name = Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef
| type = Studio
| artist = Yusef Lateef
| cover = Before Dawn The Music of Yusef Lateef.jpg
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| released = February 1958
| recorded = April 16, 1957
| venue =
| studio = WOR Recording Studios, New York City
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Verve
MGV-8217
| producer = Norman Granz
| chronology = Yusef Lateef
| prev_title = Jazz Mood
| prev_year = 1957
| next_title = Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
| next_year = 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.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/yusef-lateef/catalog/#verve-mgv-8217 Yusef Lateef discography] accessed July 17, 2012 The album was produced from Lateef's third recording session under his leadership.
Reception
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Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "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."Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/before-dawn-mw0000040827 Allmusic Review], accessed July 18, 2012
Track listing
All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated
- "Passion" - 4:04
- "Love Is Eternal" - 6:30
- "Pike's Peak" - 5:30
- "Open Strings" - 6:15
- "Before Dawn" - 5:27
- "Twenty-Five Minute Blues" - 5:27
- "Chang, Chang, Chang" - 2:57
- "Constellation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:47
Personnel
- Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute (track 4), arghul, percussion
- Curtis Fuller - trombone
- Hugh Lawson - piano, celesta (track 4)
- Ernie Farrow - bass, rebab
- Louis Hayes - drums
References
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