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{{Infobox album
| name         = Cry! – Tender
| type         = Studio
| artist       = [[Yusef Lateef]]
| cover        = Cry! - Tender.jpg
| alt          =
| released     = August 1960
| recorded     = October 16, 1959,<br />October 11, 1957 (#8)
| venue        =
| studio       = [[Van Gelder Studio]], [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey|Englewood Cliffs]] &<br />[[Hackensack, New Jersey]] (#8)
| genre        = [[Jazz]]
| length       = 37:11
| label        = [[Prestige Records|New Jazz]]<br />{{small|NJLP 8234}}
| producer     = [[Esmond Edwards]]
| chronology   = [[Yusef Lateef]]
| prev_title   = [[The Fabric of Jazz]]
| prev_year    = 1959
| next_title   = [[The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef]]
| next_year    = 1960
}}
'''''Cry! – Tender''''' is an album by American multi-instrumentalist [[Yusef Lateef]] recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the [[Prestige Records|New Jazz]] label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/yusef-lateef/catalog/#new-jazz-njlp-8234 Yusef Lateef discography] accessed July 19, 2012</ref>
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" />
|rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev2score  = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=867}}</ref>
}}
The [[AllMusic]] site 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".<ref name="AllMusic">Jurek, T. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/cry%21-tender-mw0000691032 AllMusic Review], accessed July 19, 2012</ref>
==Track listing==
''All compositions by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.''
# "Seabreeze" (Larry Douglas, [[Fred Norman (musician)|Fred Norman]], [[Rommie Bearden]]) – 3:11
# "Dopolous" – 3:18
# "Cry! – Tender" – 6:00
# "Butter's Blues" – 5:45
# "[[Yesterdays (1933 song)|Yesterdays]]" ([[Otto Harbach]], [[Jerome Kern]]) – 4:24
# "The Snow Is Green" – 3:13
# "[[If You Could See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]]" ([[Tadd Dameron]], [[Carl Sigman]]) – 4:49
# "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
==Personnel==
*[[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 (jazz pianist)|Hugh Lawson]] – [[piano]] (tracks 1-7)
*[[Ernie Farrow]] (track 8), [[Herman Wright]] (tracks 1-7) – [[double bass|bass]]
*[[Frank Gant]] (tracks 1-7), [[Oliver Jackson (musician)|Oliver Jackson]] (track 8) – [[drum kit|drums]], [[percussion]]
==References==
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[[Category:Albums produced by Esmond Edwards]]
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[[Category:New Jazz Records albums]]