Cry! – Tender

Cry! – Tender
Studio album by Yusef Lateef
Released	August 1960
Recorded	October 16, 1959
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre	Jazz
Label	New Jazz NJLP 8234
Producer	Esmond Edwards
Yusef Lateef chronology
The Fabric of Jazz (1959) Cry! – Tender (1960) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960)

Cry! – Tender is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

The AllMusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating "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".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except where noted.

1. "Seabreeze" (Larry Douglas, Fred Norman, Rommie Bearden) – 3:11
2. "Dopolous" – 3:18
3. "Cry! – Tender" – 6:00
4. "Butter's Blues" – 5:45
5. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:24
6. "The Snow Is Green" – 3:13
7. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 4:49
8. "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 (track 2), oboe (tracks 1,3 and 5)
• Lonnie Hillyer – trumpet (tracks 2-7)
• Wilbur Harden – flugelhorn (track 8)
• Hugh Lawson – piano (tracks 1-7)
• Ernie Farrow (track 8), Herman Wright (tracks 1-7) – bass
• Frank Gant (tracks 1-7), Oliver Jackson (track 8) – drums, percussion

References