Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds (Original Jazz Classics) [MOODSVILLE / CRAFT]

Why you'll love it

Eastern Sounds is a gentle, mesmerizing classic, an early and influential fusion of jazz with global music, played on saxophone, flute, oboe and exotic reed instruments.

This edition

• Original Jazz Classics series
• Craft pressing

About the album

Recorded for Prestige's Moodsville label with pianist Barry Harris, bassist Ernie Farrow and drummer Lex Humphries, the album pairs Lateef's warm tenor and exotic woodwinds with modal melodies and lilting grooves.

"The Plum Blossom" features the Chinese globular flute, "Blues for the Orient" sways on the oboe, and his tender "Love Theme from Spartacus" and "Don't Blame Me" are lovely.

A gentle, mesmerizing classic. Eastern sounds, for any time of day.

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On Craft, from the Original Jazz Classics series. First out in 1962.