Qasidat Yossef [Import]

Product Description
'qasidat Yossef' is the Second Part of a Special Collaboration Between the Singer, Poet and Songwriter Joe Amar and the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra. This CD Explores Moroccan Jewry's Classical Arabo-andalusian Musical Heritage in Greater Depth which Centers Round the Famous Prayer 'qasidat Yossef Ha-tsaddik'.

Qasidat Yossef,Jo & the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Amar,Magda,World Music

Average customer rating: YUSEF LATEEF-EASTERN SOUNDS Gorgeous Music A Unique Vision at Its Clearest

Eastern Sounds Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Prestige ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Psychicemotus New Orleans Street Singer Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins Soultrane Live at Pep's ASIN: B000FZESVW Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

1. The Plum Blossom
2. Blues For The Orient
3. Ching Miau
4. Don't Blame Me
5. Love Theme From Spartacus
6. Snafu
7. Purple Flower
8. Love Theme From The Robe
9. The Three Faces Of Balal

Customer Reviews:

YUSEF LATEEF-EASTERN SOUNDS.......2007-05-08

An alltime jazz clasic and near perfect jazz album.Eastern Sounds is an essential component of any jazz afecionado's collection!Yusef Lateef is at the height of his God given powers on this tour de force, yet subtle and tender rendering.The remastering by Rudy Van Gelder(who is among the very best jazz recording engineers ever) is exceptional and brings this collection to spectacular fidelity.

Gorgeous Music.......2006-12-31

Cross-cultural explorations of music usually turn up going one of two routes: the path of musical expansion/discovery that sometimes detours down the lane of genius or the bushy, thorny and (hopefully) killer troll-infested path of gross oversimplification of a culture and tepid romanticization of said culture. Thankfully, Lateef has clearly carefully studied, experimented with and ultimately trained himself in what he wishes to incorporate into the music he would eventually produce. And while I may be wrong with this, Lateef seems to not say "this music is the culture." Instead, he seems to be saying "maybe our imaginations are a bit too limited, cat. Maybe just maybe we can soak in some influences and make it ours." This is what I really appreciate about this beautiful album. It's all about taking jazz and exploring its musical capabilities by any means possible--even if that means incorporating some instruments and influences that the average jazzman wouldn't even dream about touching.

These words are almost immediately proven when one pops this glorious CD in and listen to the first track, "The Plum Blossom." The name alone fills my head with all kinds of beautiful imagery. The listener is introduced to this album with a quiet, peaceful riff of an Indian instrument called the "rahab." (Wikipedia it.) And if that wasn't enough, the listener is then treated to a subdued yet beautiful melody played by a Chinese instrument called the "xun." (Once again, Wikipedia it.) To remind us that this is jazz, it seems, a careful and meticulous piano comes into the mix and interplays with the xun in a way that seems that these two instruments hail from one musical tradition. +1 for Sir Lateef.

Afterwards, we're treated to some traditional jazz/blues with "Blues For the Orient." I do not believe that this song utilizes any eastern instruments but the influence does some out in the use of the chord changes (I'm nowhere near technically proficient so I like to shy away from saying such things.) and the careful use of the Lateef's oboe in this song. Perhaps Lateef plays on/with our romantizations of the East and tortures us by dipping us into the cauldron of the exotic but yanks us out of this ecstasy and tosses us, cold and naked, back into the world of Americana.

Four standard jazz pieces make their way into the mix but don't seem to be out of place at all. The two livelier of the pieces--Chinq Miau and Snafu--are both introduced by extremely hip bass lines. The drums soon come in to complete the rhythm section and then we're treated to an even greater surprise: Lateef plays the saxophone! His playing on these songs goes to show that while he doesn't embrace the relentless torrent of soul that constitutes Coltrane's (another fellow that began to experiment with Eastern music around this time) aesthetic, he was still able to roll with the saxophone giants in jazz at the time. Though, in keeping with the aesthetic of this album, he doesn't let all out which he shows he obviously can do. The two quieter jazz standards of the album--"Don't Blame Me" and "Purple Flower"--make great additions that simultaneously contradict and accentuate their more exotic counterparts.

The two greatest surprises on the album, however, are the inclusion of two renditions of songs scored by the great film composer Alex North. Sure, film music may be slightly detached from the theme of the album but why the hell not, right? The slightly less impressive of these two inclusions, "Love Theme from The Robe," is still very tender (as a love theme should be, right?) and exhibits form amazing flute playing from Lateef. They dance all over the main theme of the original song yet still remain close enough to it for the melody to be recognizable. The other love theme, from Kubrick's Spartacus, is an amazingly beautiful inclusion on this record and probably even trumps a lot of the Eastern-influenced pieces on the album for many people. For the most part, the players stay fairly close to the main melody and there's nothing wrong with that at all: the melody is absolutely genius and I'd see no reason wander away from it. Of particular interest is the piano solo in the middle of the song, which has to be one of the best improvisational performances I've heard in quite a while. (Though, admittedly, I've been sort of out of the loop in terms of jazz for a while.)

Finally, the rahab returns for the album's final cut, "The Three Faces of Balal." For a mere two minutes, the rahab, piano and mystical flute dance with one another and ends the album in such a sparse, delicate way as it began. Sometimes, you can't help but forget that tons of cultural and artistic influences have been packed into this album to create something completely new. And on top of that, it didn't have to be thrown under the label of "postmodernism" or had to have been beaten in your head in a Tantantinoesque manner. You're just supposed to take it for what it is and relax.

Definitely a winner.

A Unique Vision at Its Clearest.......2006-09-08

One could argue that several of multi-reedsman Yusef Lateef's other albums are as strong as EASTERN SOUNDS; but it's no accident that this 1961 collection has consistently been hailed by both fans and critics as the supreme distillation of his unique and enduring vision - that of jazz as the true "world music."
Lateef's golden era, dating approximately from his first recordings as a leader circa 1956 through the end of his tenure at Impulse! Records a decade later, saw the gifted tenor saxophonist/flautist/oboist release a steady stream of top-quality albums, which over time tended less to break new ground than to reiterate the revolutionary message with which the artist had begun his career: that jazz was wide enough to incorporate anything, from anywhere, and still be jazz. Whether honking away on bizarre Mideastern horns, trying out overtly foreign time signatures and rhythms or employing a deflating balloon as an instrument, Lateef and his various combos produced some of the most exotic and yet most classical sounds of the era, and never more successfully than on EASTERN SOUNDS.
With a characteristic mixture of original compositions, jazz standards and movie themes (which, in lesser hands, might seem like a nod to commercial considerations), EASTERN SOUNDS is as kaleidoscopic in its source material as in its instrumentation, with both running the gamut from stately purist refinement to rousing eclecticism. That the album never for a moment ceases to be coherent, intelligent and beautiful is a testament to Lateef's musical and philosophical acumen. As he proved here and on so many other releases, jazz is indeed a universe, with room enough for all the spheres of sound. The fortunate listener could ask for no more capable pilot through its vastnesses than this eminently gifted, bridge-building visionary.

Average customer rating: Funky African beat jazz ahead of its time in 1969

Detroit Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Golden Flute Eastern Sounds Psychicemotus The Centaur and the Phoenix Complete ASIN: B00006GFBA Release Date: 2002-08-13

Tracks:

1. Bishop School
2. Livingston Playground
3. Eastern Market
4. Belle Isle
5. Russell And Eliot
6. Raymond Winchester
7. Woodward Avenue
8. That Lucky Old Sun

Album Description

Originally released in 1969. A heart-felt tribute to the city of Detroit is the theme of this album including 'Belle Isle', Woodward Avenue' and 'Bishop School' and features Jazz greats Eric Gale, Thad Jones, Ray Barretto and Bernard Purple. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Funky African beat jazz ahead of its time in 1969.......2003-03-11

This tribute to the city of Detroit finds Yusef playing strong horn lines with a funky African beat. He even sings although some is unintellegible or repititious song name utterings.
My favorite song "Eastern Market" tells a musical story of the open market with a string quartet led by William Fischer and a horn section of the greats; Snookie Young,Jimmy Owens, and Danny Moore. Eric Gale funk picks that 60's guitar sound so recognizable.
On a short tune "Raymond Winchester" Lateef plays the entire song "talking" into his reed on the tenor sax. That African beat is so well produced it could be 1995 but it isn't and legends like Chuck Rainey on electric bass, Cecil McBee on stand up with Ray Baretto conga's, Albert "Tootie" Heath percussion and fabulous Bernard Purdie on drums make it all come together.
This album changed my musical interests in 1969 when I bought it at Canterburry Music Store on Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, SoCal. The same place I took drum lessons from Jim Keltner and bought my first set of white pearl Ludwigs with Zildjan cymbals so true that I would kill to get them back.
Highlights and songs more fitted into the contemporary jazz scene of the day are "Belle Isle" where you really hear Yusef Lateef's creative abilities and "Russell and Eliot" a beautiful song with strong electric bass and some good soloing by Eric Gale with drummer Bernard Purdie echoing a bit. This album has been a fav of mine for 32 years and I have heard and played some fine music, in that time, so a 5 is a real honor and so deserved.
.

Average customer rating: Another good album from the wonderful Yusef Lateef good & straight ahead

The Golden Flute Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Impulse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Impulse | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Psychicemotus Live at Pep's Eastern Sounds The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef Detroit ASIN: B00014AURS Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Road Runner
2. Straighten Up And Fly Right
3. Oasis
4. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance With You
5. Exactly Like You
6. The Golden Flute
7. Rosetta
8. Head Hunters
9. The Smart Set

Customer Reviews:

Another good album from the wonderful Yusef Lateef.......2005-08-21

I'm just listening to this album and I love it. If you never heard Lateef before you may want to check out the 1968 album Gentle Giant first or the live albums when he was in the Cannonball Adderley 6tet in the early 60s. This one (from '66 I believe) is definitely interesting and worth it for the Headhunters track alone. I just can't get it out of my head!

good & straight ahead.......2004-04-15

I haven't owned any Lateef recordings before, and am enjoying this one. A few especially nice tracks (I like jazz flute), but perhaps not an album for the ages. A solid three stars.

Average customer rating: a masterwork on canvas prime lateef

Psychicemotus Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Impulse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Impulse | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Eastern Sounds The Golden Flute Live at Pep's Elevation Into Something ASIN: B000AMJEE6 Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Psychicemotus
2. Bamboo Flute Blues
3. Semiocto
4. Why Do I Love You?
5. First Gymnopedie
6. Medula Sonata
7. I'll Always Be in Love with You
8. Ain't Misbehavin'

Customer Reviews:

a masterwork on canvas.......2007-04-28

Lateef delivers an innovative set here on this 1965 date at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, with practiced sidemen George Arvanitas, Reggie Workman and James Black. The unique blend of Chinese flute sounds and Indian bells knotted with jazz sentiments make this an enchanting Yusef Lateef date to have. The piano playing of Arvanitas can sound swinging or bluesy, depending on the structure of the song at hand. On "Semiocto", Lateef takes command on tenor sax while James Black works up a typhoon drum solo late on the track. Remastered at 24-bits by Verve for Impulse!, "Psychicemotus" offers listeners fabulous sound clarity of a marvelously inventive and pleasant Yusef Lateef recording.

Personnel:
Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, tambourine, flutes)
George Arvanitas (piano)
Reggie Workman (bass)
James Black (drums, percussion, Indian bell)

Producer: Bob Thiele
Recording Dates: July 21 & 22, 1965

prime lateef.......2005-09-23

This 1965 Yusef Lateef release was overdue for reissue in the cd format. It is one of the best of Lateef's Impulse recordings-- which I gather from my readings, were all of high quality. Among Lateef's studio albums, "Psychicemotus" is nearly the equal of "Eastern Sounds"(usually regarded as his best.)

Lateef limits himself to tenor sax and various flutes on this album, forsaking his usual excursions into oboe, shenai, and argol. He receives sympathetic backing from the rhythm section: Reggie Workman (bass), James Black (drums, percussion) and George Arvanitas (piano).

The album opens with the herky-jerky rhythms of the title track, which are perfectly suited to Workman and Black. "Bamboo Flute Blues" and "Medula Sonata" are gentle comtemplative pieces typical of Lateef, enlivened by imaginative percussion. "Semi-Octo" is heavily influenced by John Coltrane, and features a good drum solo by Black. "Why Do I Love You", and "I'll Always Be in Love With You" are ballads that owe quite a bit to Dexter Gordon.

Lateef thought so highly of Arvanitas that the pianist ends the album with a solo excursion through Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehaving".

Arvanitas is similar to other Lateef piano sidemen, like Hugh Lawson, Barry Harris, or Kenny Barron. He plays lyrically, with a bright tone, sounding as if he is classically trained. When you add potent bass playing by Workman, and quirky drumming by Black, this effort is elevated to the higher echelons of Yusef Lateef's output.

Average customer rating: Lateef live More sweet jazz from Lateef, the Master Earthy set

Live at Pep's Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Grp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music GRP | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Live at Pep's, Vol. 2 The Golden Flute Eastern Sounds Eastern Sounds Psychicemotus ASIN: B000003N6W Release Date: 1993-10-26

Tracks:

1. Sister Mami
2. Number 7
3. Twelve Tone Blues
4. Oscarlypso
5. Gee Sam Gee
6. Rogi
7. See See Ride
8. The Magnolia Triangle
9. The Weaver
10. Slippin' & Slidin'

Customer Reviews:

Lateef live.......2007-01-19

Yusef Lateef was originally a big toned, hard swinging tenor player. Later in his career he branched out and made a speciality of adding exotic, particularly eastern, instrumentation and sounds to his music. This is perhaps best displayed in the excellent Eastern Sounds. Live at Pep's is a good complement. It has much more of Lateef's beefy tenor, with some particularly good blues playing - listen to the guttural honking in Number 7 and the enthusiastic audience reaction to it. Lateef is also an accomplished flautist with an attractive, light tone which is all too briefly diplayed on Slippin' and Slidin'. The exotica comes in with tracks on the wailing shenai and oboe, the latter, CC Rider, being especially enjoyable. There are also touches of the New Thing, with a passage of free improvisation on The Weaver. There is a lot more in this disc than the average blowing date. It ranges across a variety of moods, styles and types of composition and the exotica always stays on the right side of novelty. It also features some excellent playing from Lateef, trumpeter Richard Williams and pianist Mike Nock.

More sweet jazz from Lateef, the Master.......2002-07-18

I continue to be amazed at how unknown and underrated Lateef is. I've only recently discovered him, and I have loved just about every second of music I've heard on his albums.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, plays with more soul and delicacy than Lateef. He may not be as far out as Coltrane or Dolphy or Coleman, but he plays with all the passion that they do. And with a beauty of phrasing and a note selection that is like honey to my ears.

If you want jazz music that is soulful, sweet, melodic and gorgeous, you can do no better than an album like this one from Yusef Lateef.

Earthy set.......2000-06-23

"Live at Pep's" memorializes a 1964 Lateef performance at the then-famous Philadelphia lounge. The set features Lateef's exotic sounds on oboe and wood flute, his rooted-in-the-earth blues playing on alto and the fine trumpet stylings of the late Richard Williams. If there's a complaint, it's that some of the tunes are too brief.

Lateef's ability to manage the recalcitrant double reed of the oboe is immediately demonstrated on "Sister Mami," where he rides herd over a sinuous, whining line that manages to sound bluesy and Eastern at the same time. Williams contributes a great, flashy trumpet break, but it doesn't last long enough.

There's plenty of blues throughout, the best being "Number 7" and "12 Tone Blues." The former is a kind of blues trilogy that goes through some interesting changes and features some fine harmonizing by Lateef and Williams and nice work by the underrated Mike Nock on piano.

Lateef is not the most technically gifted player around, but his playing has lots of soul and emotion and like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, he's never been afraid to stretch the boundaries of jazz with new instrumentation and incorporation of nontraditional influences. And any recording that gives us another taste of Richard Williams is to be valued. Good album from one of jazz's solid citizens.

Average customer rating: Why is this man not better known? Great! (Sorry for the uncreative title!)

The Centaur and the Phoenix Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef Cry!/Tender Live at Pep's Into Something Live at Pep's, Vol. 2 ASIN: B000000YXB Release Date: 1992-02-17

Tracks:

1. Revelation
2. Apathy
3. Ev'ry Day (I Fall In Love)
4. The Centaur And The Phoenix
5. Iqbal
6. Summer Song
7. The Philanthropist
8. Jungle Fantasy
9. Titora

Customer Reviews:

Why is this man not better known?.......2002-02-23

I've only recently discovered Yusef Lateef, but I dig just about everything I've heard so far from this sensitive and gifted artist.

Whether on flute, sax, oboe, or whatever, this man had music coursing through his being. He plays with intensity, but not braggadocio. He is lyrical without being sappy. Delicate without being vapid.

I love players who understand restraint and who really choose their notes with care.

Lateef paints masterpieces of jazz music.

Great! (Sorry for the uncreative title!).......2000-08-20

I bought this CD more or less on a lark without much knowledge about the album or about Yusef Lateef. I really like this album. While basically in the hard bop vain, it has some avant-guarde touches, particularly in the harmonies and in the arrangment. It features a nine piece band including Clark Terry and Joe Zawinul. Nevertheless this album is very melodic. Lateef is a geat player on tenor sax and his flute playing is very beautiful, but what really stands out is his oboe playing. The mere fact that he's just about the only oboe virtuoso in jazz is interesting enough (I'm told it's a very difficult instrument to learn). Lateef was in his 30's and already had a recording career going when he took five years to study the oboe from a classical oboe master! "Every Day I Fall in Love", "Summer Song", and the hauntingly beautiful "Iqbal" particularly stand out. "Iqbal" also features Lateef on the Argol, and Indian double-reed instrument (akin to what snake charmers use.

I certainly plan to check out a lot more of Yusef Lateef's music. I can also strongly recommend "Three Faces of Yusef Lateef" and "Eastern Sounds", but this is the one I like best of the three.

Average customer rating: One of those guys Astonishing top-notch Yusef Lateef sounds Simply the best Lateef still sounds fresh today!

Eastern Sounds Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at Pep's Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Psychicemotus The Golden Flute The Centaur and the Phoenix ASIN: B000000YSL Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. The Plum Blossom
2. Blues For The Orient
3. Chinq Miau
4. Don't Blame Me
5. Love Theme From 'Spartacus'
6. Snafu
7. Purple Flower
8. Love Theme From 'The Robe'
9. The Three Faces Of Balal

Customer Reviews:

One of those guys.......2006-04-02

who has the ability to play anything and make you respect it and him. This guy is a thinking musician. I'm listening to it now respecting the drummer Lex Humphries too.

Astonishing.......2006-03-25

Yusef's ability to offer a perfectly executed musical note, one that resonates to the depths of your soul, is in itself evidence of the Creator's handiwork. His offering on this recording is sheer beauty.
When Yusef plays a simple melody, he makes each note, each phrse speak volumes. When he plays "out", he is not like most who sound like they're searching for something: he found it. He knows what he's doing.
A truly civilized nation would recognize him as a national treasure.

top-notch Yusef Lateef sounds.......2005-01-12

If you are going to buy a Yusef Lateef album, this is the one to get. It blends an amazing sense of experimentation with the cool, structured sound that Lateef knows like the back of his hand.

All the solos are amazing, in particular Lateef's. Among the more memorable songs are the two love themes, "Snafu", and "Blues For The Orient", although perhaps the freshest and catchiest track is "The Plum Blossom," a smooth, beautiful introduction to the album highlighted by Barry Harris' gorgeous piano language, tabla-like percussion, and Lateef in all his glory.

Upon first listen, Eastern Sounds may seem to be a little bit too much of an exoticization for Lateef to mold well - but the album grows on listeners like nothing else he has done.

Simply the best.......2004-11-02

This album is simply put - one of the best I have ever heard!! Plum Blossom and Love theme from Spartacus are favorites. One should see the movie Spartacus to appreciate the beauty of this composition. Dim the lights, close your eyes and breathe in Eastern Sounds.
Its mind blowing.

Lateef still sounds fresh today!.......2004-10-15

First time I heard Yusef Lateef
was when I stumble upon his
Eastern Sound cd. Just blew me
away. He had other soloists
on there, but Yusef grab your
attention and held from beginning
to end. A gem are the following
Yusef albums:

1/ Eastern Sound
2/ African American Epic Suite
3/ Blue Yusef Lateef

Amazing master: simple, clear,
hypnotic playing thru and thru!

Average customer rating: get your funk on

The Man with the Big Front Yard Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: 32. Jazz Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B000006C5L Release Date: 1998-04-28

Tracks:

1. Rosalie
2. In The Evening
3. Kongsberg
4. Stay With Me
5. See Line Woman
6. Brother
7. You're Somewhere Thinking Of Me
8. Bishop School
9. Livingston Playground
10. Eastern Market
11. Belle Isle
12. Russell & Eliot
13. Raymond Winchester
14. Woodward Avenue
15. That Lucky Old Sun

Tracks:

1. Come Sunday
2. The Hump
3. Opus Pt. l/Opus Pt. ll
4. This Old Building
5. Prayer
6. Sunset
7. His Eye Is On The Sparrow
8. Destination Paradise

Tracks:

1. The Improvisers
2. Hellbound
3. Mystique
4. Mississippi Mud
5. Mushmouth
6. Technological Homosapien
7. Street Musicians
8. In A Little Spanish Town ('Twas On A Night Like This)

Amazon.com

During the last half century, Yusef Lateef has successively reinvented himself as a swing-era tenor, world-music pioneer, and orchestral composer. Now 32 Jazz has reissued the cream of his Atlantic recordings on The Man with the Big Front Yard. This three-disc set offers a superb look at Lateef's quick-change artistry. A cut like "Kongsberg" finds the saxophonist in a hard-bop mood, leading an able quartet through his own gospel-flavored composition. Elsewhere Lateef deploys a bigger, funkier ensemble--indeed, the 1969 sessions originally issued as Yusef Lateef's Detroit feature percolating performances by the likes of pianist Eric Gale and Bernard Purdie. And a delicate arrangement of "Come Sunday," which spotlights the leader's flute alongside Kermit Moore's cello, anticipates the chamber music that this protean artist would produce throughout the 1970s. --James Marcus

Customer Reviews:

get your funk on.......2001-08-09

so think anf fonky that the beastie boys used two of these albums multiple times throughout paul's boutique and check your head!

Average customer rating:

The Black Mass Manufacturer: Son Boy Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009VTA06

Product Description

Surprise reissue of the most infamous and difficult to procure Sun Ra artifact; originally issued on Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones)'s Jihad label (home of the original Sunny's Time Now by Sunny Murray as well). This is the first release on the DC-based Son Boy label officially sanctioned by Baraka (and mastered from the original tapes that have been sitting in his basement all along). A strange and revolutionary play by Baraka, with musical interludes by the Myth-Science Orchestra. Very, very historic. This is a sort of radio horror play written by LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka) and based on the Nation of Islam story of the evil angel Yaqub. Ra and the Arkestra provide incidental music. The backing is mostly spare and low-volume, so as not to drown out the players. Actors: Amiri Baraka; Carl Boissiere; David Shakes; Bob Washington; Yusef Iman; Barry Wynn. Women's Chorus: Elaine Jones, Jacqui Bugg, Sylvia Jones. Musical backing: Sun Ra-Hohner clavinet, organ; Marshall Allen-alto sax, oboe, piccolo; Danny Davis-alto sax; John Gilmore-tenor sax, percussion; Pat Patrick-baritone sax, percussion; Robert Cummings-bass clarinet; Ronnie Boykins-bass; (probably: Nimrod Hunt-percussion; James Jacson-percussion). When the women are asked to contain the monster with an incantation, they oblige with the melody of Satellites are Spinning.

Average customer rating: the best jazz flutist we have!

Live at Pep's, Vol. 2 Yusef Lateef Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at Pep's Psychicemotus Eastern Sounds Cry!/Tender The Centaur and the Phoenix ASIN: B0000296VK Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

1. Brother John
2. P-Bouk
3. Nu-Bouk
4. Yusef's Mood
5. I Remember Clifford
6. Listen To The Wind
7. I Loved
8. Delilah
9. The Magnolia Triangle-Alternative Version

Customer Reviews:

the best jazz flutist we have!.......1999-11-22

lateef is the best jazz flutist. we hardly get any in the field but I believe that his rawness and constant beauty of thick melody is quite impressive anyways. I presume that you can't go wrong without buying this album for the year.

I would like to recommend this for those who want to experiment with raw cool jazz styles!

International Music:

1. Quiereme Mucho [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] [CD-single]
2. Rick & Renner and Voce Ao Vivo [Live] [Import]
3. Romantic Rhapsody [Import]
4. Roulez En Ideal [Import]
5. Sacred Spaces
6. Samarcanda E Altri Successi [Import]
7. Samba Roulotte [Import]
8. Saudades de Portgal: Uma Casa Portuguesa [Import]
9. Seems Like Old Times
10. Serie Sem Limite Fase II [Import]

International Music

International Music