title: Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
text: # Jazz and the Sounds of Nature
  
  Jazz and the Sound of Nature is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  
  The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated
  
  * "Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
  * "Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
  * "Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
  * "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
  * "8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
  * "Check Blues" - 6:40
  * "Gypsy Arab" (Harden) - 3:26
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute - track 2, tambourine, Indian reed whistle
  * Wilbur Harden - flugelhorn, tambourine
  * Hugh Lawson - piano, ocarina
  * Ernie Farrow - bass, rebab
  * Oliver Jackson - drums, gong
  