Cry! – Tender

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

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AllMusic stated: "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]

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

• 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