Inside Story (Prince Lasha album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Inside Story

| type = Studio

| artist = Prince Lasha

| cover = Inside Story (Prince Lasha album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 1981

| recorded = 1965

| venue =

| studio = CBS Studio, New York City

| genre = Jazz

| length = 39:41

| label = Enja
ENJA 3073

| producer = Prince Lasha

| chronology = Prince Lasha

| prev_title = The Cry!

| prev_year = 1962

| next_title = Insight

| next_year = 1966

}}

Inside Story is an album by saxophonist Prince Lasha, recorded in 1965 but not released on the Enja label until 1981.{{Cite AV media notes | author=Okazaki Masamichi | others=Stefan Pauli and Stefan Richter (translators) | id=Enja CD 9131-2 |title=Prince Lasha - Inside Story | type=Liner notes | url=http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/9131.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310233738/http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/9131.htm | url-status=dead | publisher=Enja Records | archive-date=10 March 2016 | access-date=4 August 2020 }} The compact disc (Enja CD 9131-2) appends the album Search for Tomorrow, a 1974 live album recorded at the Berkeley Jazz Festival, and previously released as Live At Berkeley Jazz Festival Vol. 2 (Birdseye 99001).{{Cite web | title=Prince Lasha | website=Hello World! The Sonny Simmons Homepage | url=http://www.sonnysimmons.org/lasha.htm | access-date=4 August 2020 }}

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=866}}

}}

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated that "this obscure set features flutist Prince Lasha in prime form. ...The inside/outside music has its free moments and solidifies the leader's position as one of the best flutists in the avant-garde movement of the period".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000351702 |title=Inside Story – Review |accessdate=August 29, 2015}}

Track listing

All compositions by Prince Lasha

  1. "Ethereal" - 7:13
  2. "Flight" - 7:15
  3. "Kwadwo Safari" - 7:36
  4. "Inside Story" - 8:04
  5. "Mary" - 9:31

The CD configuration appends three tracks from Search for Tomorrow:

{{ordered list|start=6

| "For the Child" - 8:55

| "Search for Tomorrow" - 6:13

| "Mayflower" (a.k.a. "Tracking Train") - 16:16

}}

Personnel

= ''Inside Story'' =

= ''Search for Tomorrow'' =

References