{"title":"Yusef Lateef","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYusef Lateef was an American jazz musician, artist, composer, and producer. Born on October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA and passed away on December 23, 2013 in Amherst, Massachusetts at the age of 93.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLateef was a multi-instrumentalist known for his mastery of the tenor saxophone and flute. He also played rare instruments in jazz such as the oboe and bassoon. His music incorporated non-western instruments like the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn innovative artist with an insatiable curiosity for exploration beyond traditional boundaries of jazz music. Lateef's soulful sound and impressive technique made him one of the top flutists by the 1950s. He introduced unique instruments like the arghul (a double clarinet resembling a bassoon) and shanai (a type of oboe). His musical style can be described as \"world music\" long before that term was coined.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"atlantis-lullaby-the-concert-from-avignon-rsd-2024","title":"Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert From Avignon - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eThis product is a Record Store Day exclusive title\u003c\/strong\u003e and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003cbr\u003e\n                            \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA truly sensational find, this set presents a never before heard performance featuring Yusef Lateef in a quartet set with fellow stars Kenny Barron, Bob Cunningham, and Albert “Tootie” Heath. The remastered audio was transferred from the original tape reels. This project, produced by the renowned Zev Feldman, is released with the full collaboration of the Yusef Lateef Estate, as well as those of the other artists involved. The audio has been transferred and newly remastered from the original concert tapes. Presented in a 2-LP 180g vinyl set, the package includes an extensive booklet with rare photos; essays by arts journalist Shannon Effinger and producer Zev Feldman, plus exclusive testimonies by Ayesha Lateef, Kenny Barron, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Adam Rudolph, Reggie Workman, Joe Lovano, Tia Fuller, Bennie Maupin, James Carter \u0026amp; Sonny Rollins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elemental","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50408522121547,"sku":"2181594","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Yusef_Latef_-_Atlants_ee2499f9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726605046"},{"product_id":"atlantis-lullaby-the-concert-from-avignon-3","title":"Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert from Avignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeluxe limited-edition 2CD set\u003c\/strong\u003e featuring an extensive booklet. 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The use of cello - and oboe on some numbers - makes the date stand out a bit from the usual hard bop sessions of the period and straight-ahead jazz fans will want to get this.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sowing Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50416535863627,"sku":"2056917","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7427255403838_06e2f359_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726705464"},{"product_id":"1984-o76zcf","title":"1984","description":"\u003cp\u003eYusef Lateef's experimentalism hit the stratosphere in 1965 with the issue of \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e. With bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Mike Nock, and drummer James Black, from the eight-minute title track that opens the album and the two-minute, angular modal ballad \"Try Love,\" \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e certainly seems to be shaping up into one weird record. The title is an experimental, noodling improv that has Lateef literally moaning as if in mourning throughout -- indecipherably no less -- and \"Try Love\"'s minimalist reeds barely hint at a melodic structure. All of this would be perfectly in keeping with the time, of course. After all, Coltrane, Ornette, and Cecil Taylor were tearing up Western musical conventions as if they were yesterday's newspapers. But then with \"Soul Sister,\" featuring Lateef's deep, bluesy, tenor blowing around a gorgeous lyric figure, and Mike Nock's stunningly beautiful soloing on \"Love Waltz,\" the entire album moves in another direction, even if it isn't terribly focused. The off-kilter, blues rip on \"One Little Indian\" (yes, that one), with its carny piano and out saxophone blowing into the microphonic territories, sends it off into another space entirely until, at the end, when we've heard the lovely flute on his read of \"The Greatest Story Ever Told\" and have reentered the complex melodic world of Lateef, that we can understand where we've been harmonically, and it isn't somewhere familiar, though it has some signposts we recognize. In all, a complex yet very emotionally and musically rewarding effort by a master.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elemental","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426052378955,"sku":"2178795","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/product_id._147f8f17_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726799411"},{"product_id":"yusef-lateefs-detroit-latitude-42deg-30-longitude-83deg","title":"Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°","description":"\u003cp\u003eGilles Peterson has been given the keys to Warner’s impressive Jazz back-catalogue and hand-selected Yusef Lateef’s legendary \u003ci\u003eDetroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°\u003c\/i\u003e for Arc Records next release. This is the first time the album has been reissued on vinyl since its originally came out in 1969. The album is Lateef’s nostalgic love-letter to his hometown and one of the rawest works in his catalogue but the record looks forward as well as back. The compositions are laced with the seeds of 70s Jazz Funk that would come to dominate the following decade.\n \n Arc Records have given this overlooked piece in Lateef’s oeuvre a bespoke reissue treatment. The audio has been remastered in mono from the original tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman - best known for personally mastering industry landmarks such as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Prince’s “Purple Rain” and Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” among many others. The artwork, printed on heavy-weight card, is faithful to the original down to the 1960’s-style tip on sleeve and features the original sleeve notes alongside updated liner notes. The record itself is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. 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The use of an argol on ‘Metaphor’ and a rabat and finger cymbals on ‘Morning’ point to Lateef’s Islamic grounding and his belief that music serves a higher purpose. Rich, deep, and varied, this is required listening for all serious jazz heads.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Concord","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50433270284619,"sku":"1166594","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Black \/ Concord Records Edition","offer_id":53290715644235,"sku":"R1692-6867","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ce2cd631-3018-4ae7-92a5-e7c64c88b038_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726878367"},{"product_id":"cry-tender-3","title":"Cry! - Tender","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough his main instruments were the tenor saxophone and the fute, Yusef Lateef was known for his innovative blending of jazz with Asian music. 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With a band that included Detroit Jazz gods Roy Brooks on drums and Kenny Burrell on guitar, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Hugh Lawson on piano, Sonny Red on alto, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass, and a very young Cecil McBee on acoustic bass, you get the idea that Lateef was after something different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLateef performs on not only his tenor and flute, but bamboo and pneumatic flutes, tamboura, koto, and others; Lateef was exploring the outer reaches of the blues as they might appear and appeal to Eastern as well as Western cultures. The Blue Yusef Lateef is one wild album. In sound, it is the very best the '60s had to offer in terms of experimentation and accessibility. 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Lateef played meaty tenor sax solos and entrancing flute and bamboo flute offerings, and also had impressive stints on oboe, shenai, and argol. This was a pivotal date in his career, and those unaware of it will get a treat with this disc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elemental","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50485069316427,"sku":"2022311","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Live_At_Peps_90807d18_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727595088"},{"product_id":"yusef-lateef-the-3-faces-of-yusef-lateef","title":"Yusef Lateef: The 3 Faces of Yusef Lateef","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, the multifaceted 1960 album from multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for December 2022. 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Lateef's aesthetic was a perfect mixture of hard-driving jazz and a variety of ethnic materials. Even though If compared to later works, \"Sounds of Yusef\" is still very much rooted in Jazz while the use of traditional ethnic instruments adds colors and flavors without really deviating from the American Jazz tradition. Lateef shines on both tenor sax and flute while the rhythm section swings hard throughout a varied repertoire including an airy version of Strayhorn's ultra-classic \"Take the A Train\" and a contemplative Lateef's original called \"Meditation\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naked Lunch","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50968009638219,"sku":"1094937","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/05c01811-dc4c-4c86-9391-7b1eb0a7dc5b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734021672"},{"product_id":"into-something-sf","title":"Into Something","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1961, with the recording of 'Into Something' (presented here) and 'Eastern Sounds', Yusef Lateef's dominant presence within a group context had emerged. His \"Eastern\"' influences are clearly audible in all these recordings. The tunes themselves are a mixture of jazz standards and blues. 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To quote from the original liner notes regarding the music within this debut album...'their music combines elements of the current 'hard bop' approach with Afro Asiatic tinges, a needed sense of dynamics and extended form, plus a sense of humour and joi de vivre, so seldom found in today's jazz'. Joining the man with..... 'the mild aura of cultism' around him are Curtis Fuller on trombone, Ernie Farrow on bass, Hugh Lawson on piano and Louis Hayes on drums. Here's another quote from the original liner notes to 'Eastern Sounds'....'the idea of the album was to have an Oriental feel'. To that end you will find references to such instruments as the Chinese globular flute (12 hundred years old!) and the Indian rabat. Of the players, Lateef is heard playing tenor sax, oboe and flute, Barry Harris is on piano, Ernie Farrow bass and rabat and Lex Humphries on drums. Back to the liner notes ....'Lateef announces himself pleased with the album.....Lateef will surprise the jazz public on this set....it would be nice if they surprised him with acceptance'. Prepare to be surprised and accepting!! A listing of players and instruments on 'Other Sounds' will give you some idea of where the title for this album came from! Yusef Lateef-tenor sax, flute and argol; Wilbur Harden-flugelhorn; Hugh Lawson-piano, Turkish finger cymbols; Ernie Farrow-bass, rebob; Oliver Jackson-drums, earth-board. The former Bill Evans adopted the muslim faith in 1950 and became Yusef Lateef . His jazz background was a traditional one playing with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie (as Bill Evans), Lucky Millander, HotLips Page and Roy Eldridge. His bands had always been 'dedicated to playing swinging music in the tradition of Charlie Parker, Dizzy, Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Sonny Stitt. 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