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Albums include eastern sounds, psychicemotus, and the blue yusef lateef. The golden flute is the title of a yusef lateef album that was recorded at rudy van gelder studio in new jersey on june 15th by coincidence the. A superior tenor saxophonist with a soulful sound and impressive technique, by the 1950s lateef was one of the top flutists around. October 9, 1920 december 23, 20 was an american jazz multiinstrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the ahmadiyya community in america although lateefs main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also used a. Yusef lateef was born on october 9, 1920 in chattanooga, tennessee, usa as william emanuel huddleston. The complete yusef lateef atlantic lp 1499 yusef lateefs detroit latitude 42 degrees 30 longitude 83 degrees atlantic sd 1525. Yusef lateef jazz performances and classic recordings on. Yusef lateef albums, songs discography album of the year. Savoy mg 12120 yusef lateef jazz and the sounds of nature savoy mg 12123 various artists jazz is busting out all over yusef lateef quintet. Yusef lateef grew up in detroit and began on tenor when he was 17. William evans, 9 october 1920, chattanooga, tennessee, usa. Yusef lateef live at peps is a 1964 album by the american jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist yusef lateef.
Find yusef lateef discography, albums and singles on allmusic allmusic. Road runner is a slow, funky tune with gutsy improvising that segues into a slow, beautiful treatment of straighten up and fly right, a sultry ballad infused with. Home yusef lateef catalog album index discography session index. The emphasis is on older tunes and styles on this yusef lateef impulse. Not just a flute session from yusef lateef as the sets a record with plenty of saxophone as well as the instrument named in the title. The book is flute book of the blues by yusef lateef, published by fana music. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. An extremely talented multiinstrumentalist with a thorough understanding of african music, lateef brought his skill as a tenor sax, flute and oboe master to many classic recordings, spicing up a grant green hard bop session as easily as covering many bases for charles mingus, donald byrd and cannonball adderley. Yusef lateef flute, tenor saxophone, oboe, hugh lawson piano, herman wright bass, roy brooks jr. The collection lp the cranberries gentle on my mind. Add lateefs amazing flute playing, and this is beautiful music. Although lateefs main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also used a number of nonwestern instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. Yusef abdul lateef born william emanuel huddleston. The golden flute is a marvelous recording from 1966 that showcases lateefs ability to sustain a warm groove through a welldesigned program of originals and standards.
Dedicated to the late and great saxophonist and flutist, and innovative musician yusef lateef 192020. Lateef has long been a true original, and he revitalizes the standards while always swinging and being a bit. Yusef lateef the golden flute 1966 flac the emphasis is on older tunes and styles on this yusef lateef impulse. Golden flute is a hard bop album that sounds more like it belonged on the eras blue note but so what. The official website for yusef lateef, fana music and al nur publications. The golden flute 1967 the complete yusef lateef 1967 the golden flute is an album by american jazz multiinstrumentalist yusef lateef featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the impulse. Download yusef lateef trombipulation files tradownload. Yusef lateef 1984 the golden flute cd amoeba music. Yusef lateef born william emanuel huddleston, october 9, 1920 december 23, 20 was an american jazz multiinstrumentalist, composer and educator and a renowned spokesman for the ahmadiyya muslim community after his conversion to islam in 1950. Other participating musicians in this album were bassist ernie farrow, pianist mike nock, drummer james black and trumpeter richard williams.
Lateef switching between tenor, flute, and oboe plays such numbers as straighten up and fly right, ghost of a chance, exactly like you on oboe, and rosetta along with some group originals. The golden flute 1966 this feature is not available right now. Raised in detroit, michigan, lateef began playing tenor saxophone in his late teens. He was a fixture on the detroit jazz scene of the 50s where he studied flute at wayne state university. Yusefs mixing his bag nicely for this mid 60s classic working through tunes that are a mixture of soulful hardbop and eastern exoticism a shift thats marked by lateefs changing reed work on tenor, flute, and oboe. Yusef lateef songbook 77 yusef lateef compostions composed over six decades. Yusef lateef fantasia for flute full album youtube. In accordance with the directives of government and health authorities, we have temporarily suspended operations. I made a playlist of 19 tracks of yusef on tenor on spotify, titled. Yusef lateefstateautocollapse shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a, a, or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute. The best of glen campbell lp glen campbell the good will out lp embrace the sound of the suburbs lp.
The golden flute is an album by american jazz multiinstrumentalist yusef lateef featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the impulse. Yusef abdul lateef was an american jazz multiinstrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the ahmadiyya community in america. Also appears on see all the complete albums collection 19561960 paul chambers. He also developed into the best jazz soloist to date on oboe, was an occasional bassoonist, and introduced such instruments as the argol a double clarinet that resembles a bassoon, shanai a type of oboe, and. A1, a3, b1 notes original stereo pressing with orange and black labels with a product of abcparamount records, inc. Listen free to yusef lateef the golden flute road runner, straighten up and fly right and more. Here you can find yusef lateef trombipulation shared files. Music profile for yusef lateef, born 9 october 1920. In 1971 they started adding the year on the label, so this one is likely from 196770. Intimations of astral jazz were definitely in the studio the day the album was recorded. He died on december 23, 20 in shutesbury, massachusetts, usa. Mud theater in the early 1980s, famed jazz saxophonist and musical luminary yusef lateef traveled to nigeria as a senior research fellow to study, write, and teach at the centre for nigerian cultural studies at ahmadu bello university. Lateef was born in chattanooga, tennessee, but his family moved to detroit, michigan in 1925.
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