Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks
The Sounds Of Yusef
| Recorded | Oct 11, 1957 |
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| Label | Prestige |
| Catalog | PRLP 7122 |
| Released | 1957 |
| Personnel | 5 credited players |
| Discogs | master 369999 |
The record
Rabat and argol resurface on this Prestige session, gong and bells scattered through a band built around a warm flugelhorn lead. The group stays probing throughout, timbres odd enough to lift this well past a standard blowing date.
Session personnel
- Ernie Farrow — bass, violin [rabat]
- Oliver Jackson — drums, gong [chinese], percussion [earth-board]
- Wilbur Harden — flugelhorn, horn [balloon]
- Hugh Lawson — piano, finger cymbals [turkish], percussion [seven-up bottle], horn [balloon], bells
- Yusef Lateef — tenor saxophone, flute, woodwind [argol], tambourine
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 1957 | Esquire · 32-069 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file |
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| 1961 | New Jazz · NJ 8261 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp |
| 1963 | New Jazz · NJ 8261 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Narrow DG · deep groove; RVG stamp |
| 1957 | Prestige — MONO |
| 1966 | Prestige · MPR S-3036 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress |
| 1996 | Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-917-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo |
| 2020 | Naked Lunch (2) · ND014 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
| — | Original Jazz Classics · 00025218691727 — CDr, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress, Stereo |
| — | Original Jazz Classics · 00025218691727 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered |
Follow the players
Ernie Farrow also plays on
Oliver Jackson also plays on
Wilbur Harden also plays on