Long Before Our Mothers Cried Explained

Long Before Our Mothers Cried
Type:	Album
Artist:	Sonny Fortune
Cover:	Long Before Our Mothers Cried.jpg
Released:	1974
Recorded:	September 8 & September 15, 1974 at Minot Studio, White Plains, N.Y.
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Strata-East SES 7423
Producer:	Sonny Fortune
Chronology:	Sonny Fortune
Prev Title:	Trip on the Strip
Prev Year:	1966
Next Title:	Awakening
Next Year:	1975

Long Before Our Mothers Cried is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1974 and released on the Strata-East label.^[1]

Reception

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Long Before Our Mothers Cried a "B+" and admired Fortune's "commitment to plain good music", spanning bebop to free jazz styles, and wrote of the album, "despite even the bracing piano comps of Stanley Cowell, there's nothing compelling here. But satisfying."^[2] Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic gave it three out of five stars, calling it "a fully realized creative album and very listenable as well".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Fortune

1. "Long Before Our Mothers Cried" - 14:25
2. "A Tribute to a Holiday (Billie)" - 5:51
3. "Sound of Silents" - 8:41
4. "Five for Trane" - 6:26
5. "Wayneish" - 6:37

Personnel

• Sonny Fortune - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
• Charles Sullivan - trumpet
• Stanley Cowell - piano, electric piano
• Wayne Dockery - bass
• Chip Lyle - drums
• Mario Muñoz - bass drum, timbales
• Angel Allende - congas, triangle, tambourine
• Richie Pablo Landrum - percussion

Notes and References

1. http://www.sonnyfortune.com/discopage.html Sonny Fortune discography
2. News: Christgau. Robert. Robert Christgau. August 18, 1975. Christgau's Consumer Guide. The Village Voice. May 29, 2016.
3. Nastos, M. G., [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=two-is-one-mw0000878794|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed January 16, 2015