Jazz 'Round the World is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef featuring performances recorded in 1963 for the Impulse! label.Impulse! Records discography accessed March 18, 2011
Reception The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny stated: "Yusef Lateef's first Impulse! date Jazz 'Round the World anticipates the emerging vogue for global music with a series of impassioned interpretations of traditional ethnic folk songs... Lateef proves that while music may indeed reign as the universal language, some speakers are far more fluent and eloquent than others".Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed March 18, 2011
Track listing All compositions by Yusef Lateef except where noted. "Abana" - 2:20 "India" - 4:09 "You, So Tender and Wistful" - 2:29 "Yusef's French Brother" - 4:10 "The Volga Rhythm Song" - 2:03 "Trouble In Mind" (Richard M. Jones) - 3:12 "The Good Old Roast Beef of England" - 2:31 "Raisins And Almonds" - 3:05 "Utopia" - 2:47 "Ringo Oiwake" (Fujio Ozawa, Masao Yoneyama) - 4:18 Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 19 & 20, 1963
Personnel Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute, bassoon, oboe, shenai Richard Williams – trumpet Hugh Lawson – piano Ernie Farrow – bass Lex Humphries – drums
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