Yusef Lateef: Cry! Tender

Date:	Friday, October 16, 1959
Label/Number:	Prestige New Jazz 8234
Personnel:	Yusef Lateef (ts, fl, oboe) Lonnie Hillyer (tp) Hugh Lawson (p) Herman Wright (b) Frank Gant (d)
Tracks:	Cry! Tender / The Snow Is Green / If You Could See Me Now / Dolopous / Yesterdays / Sea Breeze / Butter’s Blues
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Liner Notes:	Ron Eyre
Research Comments:	Lateef recalls recording his original tune “Cry! Tender.” “I played a tenor solo that I liked, more or less, but there was a squeak in it – a long squeak. And Rudy took the squeak out. I don’t know how he did it, but he manipulated a lot of the apparatus in the studio. And the squeak must have been at least two or three seconds long. It was a mechanical fault in the instrument. It was amazing. He said the reason he was able to do it was because the squeak started on the beat. But he did it. It was phenomenal.”
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Sources:	CDJ AJ-IJS PR1