Cry! – Tender
Cry! – Tender is an album by American multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label.
Reception
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".Track listing
All compositions by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.- "Seabreeze" – 3:11
- "Dopolous" – 3:18
- "Cry! – Tender" – 6:00
- "Butter's Blues" – 5:45
- "Yesterdays" – 4:24
- "The Snow Is Green" – 3:13
- "If You Could [See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]" – 4:49
- "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
- Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute, oboe
- Lonnie Hillyer – trumpet
- Wilbur Harden – flugelhorn
- Hugh [Lawson (jazz pianist)|Hugh Lawson] – piano
- Ernie Farrow, Herman Wright – bass
- Frank Gant, Oliver Jackson – drums, percussion