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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Yusef Lateef - Yusef's Mood - Complete 1957 Sessions with Hugh Lawson

Tracklist: 

CD 1
01. Beauregard (3:36)
02. O'Blues (9:12)
03. Happyology (11:16)
04. Midday (7:54)
05. Polarity (7:05)
06. Ameena (7:09)
07. Space (5:54)
08. Metaphor (8:07)
09. Morning (10:36)
10. The Beginning (4:10)

CD 2
01. G. Bouk (10:16)
02. Blues in Space (7:06)
03. Yusef's Mood (8:34)
04. Passion (4:06)
05. Love is Eternal (6:32)
06. Pike's Peak (5:32)
07. Open Strings (6:16)
08. Before Down (5:28)
09. Twenty Five Minute Blues (5:29)
10. Chang Chang Chang (2:59)
11. Constellation (4:49)
12. Seulb (6:14)
13. Sounds of Nature (3:47)

CD 3
01. Song of Delilah (8:22)
02. 8540 Twelfth Street (4:25)
03. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (6:20)
04. Check Blues (6:40)
05. Prayer to the East (8:18)
06. A Night in Tunisia (9:50)
07. Lover Man (6:38)
08. Endura (13:08)
09. Love Dance (6:45)
10. Sram (5:37)
11. Gypsy Arab (3:26)

CD 4
01. Playful Flute (4:18)
02. Taboo (9:10)
03. Ecaps (6:34)
04. All Alone (5:06)
05. Anastasia (4:13)
06. Love and Humour (6:13)
07. Buckingham (5:10)
08. Lambert's Point (4:44)
09. Meditation (4:43)
10. Mahaba (3:50)
11. Minor Mood (9:37)
12. Take the A Train (11:13)

Bass – Ernie Farrow
Bells [Sleigh Bells] – Hugh Lawson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-12), Oliver Jackson (tracks: 3-5 to 3-11)
Cowbell [Cowbells] – Hugh Lawson (tracks: 2-12, 2-13), Louis Hayes (tracks: 2-4 to 2-11), Wilbur Harden (tracks: 3-5 to 3-11)
Drums – Louis Hayes (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11), Oliver Jackson (tracks: 2-12 to 4-12)
Finger Cymbals [Turkish Finger Cymbals] – Curtis Fuller (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10, 2-4 to 2-11), Hugh Lawson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-12)
Flugelhorn – Wilbur Harden (tracks: 2-12 to 4-12)
Gong [Chinese Gong] – Oliver Jackson (tracks: 3-5 to 4-12)
Metallophone – Hugh Lawson (tracks: 2-4 to 2-11)
Ocarina – Hugh Lawson (tracks: 2-12, 2-13)
Percussion [Earth Board] – Ernie Farrow (tracks: 2-12, 2-13, 3-5 to 3-11), Oliver Jackson (tracks: 3-5 to 4-12)
Percussion [Scraped Gourd] – Yusef Lateef (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10, 2-4 to 2-11, 4-1 to 4-12)
Percussion [Seven-up Bottle] – Hugh Lawson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-12)
Piano – Hugh Lawson
Reeds [Argol] – Yusef Lateef (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10, 2-4 to 2-11, 3-5 to 4-12)
Reeds [Indian Reed Whistle] – Yusef Lateef (tracks: 2-12, 2-13)
Tambourine – Curtis Fuller (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10), Wilbur Harden (tracks: 2-12, 2-13), Yusef Lateef (tracks: 1-8 to 1-10, 2-4 to 2-13, 3-5 to 4-12)
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Yusef Lateef
Trombone – Curtis Fuller (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11)
Vocals – Yusef Lateef (tracks: 4-1 to 4-12)

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