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
The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.

Track listing
All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated
 * 1) "Seulb" (Wilbur Harden) - 6:13
 * 2) "Song of Delilah" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Young) - 8:21
 * 3) "Sounds of Nature" - 3:47
 * 4) "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 6:19
 * 5) "8540 Twelfth Street" - 4:25
 * 6) "Check Blues" - 6:40
 * 7) "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