Yusef Lateef ...
Genre:Jazz .
Styles:Hard Bop,Post-Bop,Modern Creative,Jazz Instrument,Saxophone Jazz,World Fusion.
Yusef Lateef long had an inquisitive spirit and he was never just a bop or hard bop soloist. Lateef, who did not care much for the term "jazz," consistently created music that stretched (and even broke through) boundaries. A superior tenor saxophonist with a soulful sound and impressive technique, by the 1950sLateef was one of the top flutists around. 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 different types of flutes. Lateef played "world music" before it had a name and his output was much more creative than much of the pop and folk music that passed under that label in the '90s.
Yusef Lateef grew up in Detroit and began on tenor when he was 17. He played with Lucky Millinder(1946), Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie's big band (1949-1950). He was a fixture on the Detroit jazz scene of the '50s where he studied flute at Wayne State University. Lateef began recording as a leader in 1955 for Savoy (and later Riverside and Prestige) although he did not move to New York until 1959. By then he already had a strong reputation for his versatility and for his willingness to utilize "miscellaneous instruments." Lateef played with Charles Mingus in 1960, gigged with Donald Byrd, and was well-featured with the Cannonball Adderley Sextet (1962-1964). As a leader, his string of Impulse! recordings (1963-1966) was among the finest of his career, although Lateef's varied Atlantic sessions (1967-1976) also had some strong moments. He spent some time in the '80s teaching in Nigeria.
His Atlantic records of the late '80s were closer to mood music (or new age) than jazz, but in the '90s (for his own YAL label)Lateef recorded a wide variety of music (all originals) including some strong improvised music with the likes of Ricky Ford,Archie Shepp, and Von Freeman. Lateef remained active as a composer, improviser, and educator (teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) into the 21st century, performing and recording as a leader and collaborator on such noteworthy recordings as Towards the Unknown with composer/percussionist Adam Rudolph (released in 2010, the same year Lateef was recognized as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts). Yusef Lateef died at his home in Shutesbury, Massachusetts in December 2013; he was 93 years old.
(Artist Biography by Scott Yanow)
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Yusef Lateef
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Discography - As Leader/Co-leader:
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Yusef Lateef -Youtube Music Videos:
Yusef Lateef - Like It Is
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Youtube - Yusef Lateef
Discography - As Leader/Co-leader:
| Year recorded | Title | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Jazz Mood | Savoy | Debut release from second recording session |
| 1957 | Jazz for the Thinker | Savoy | |
| 1957 | Stable Mates | Savoy | Split album with A. K. Salim |
| 1957 | Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef | Verve | |
| 1957 | Prayer to the East | Savoy | |
| 1957 | Jazz and the Sounds of Nature | Savoy | |
| 1957 | The Sounds of Yusef | Prestige | |
| 1957 | Other Sounds | Prestige/New Jazz | Released 1959 |
| 1958 | Lateef at Cranbrook | Argo | Live album |
| 1959 | The Dreamer | Savoy | |
| 1959 | The Fabric of Jazz | Savoy | |
| 1959 | Cry! – Tender | Prestige/New Jazz | Includes one track from 1957 |
| 1960 | The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef | Riverside | |
| 1960 | The Centaur and the Phoenix | Riverside | |
| 1961 | Lost in Sound | Charlie Parker | |
| 1961 | Eastern Sounds | Prestige/Moodsville | |
| 1961 | Into Something | Prestige/New Jazz | |
| 1963 | Jazz 'Round the World | Impulse! | |
| 1964 | Live at Pep's | Impulse! | Live album |
| 1965 | 1984 | Impulse! | Live album |
| 1965 | Psychicemotus | Impulse! | |
| 1966 | A Flat, G Flat and C | Impulse! | |
| 1966 | The Golden Flute | Impulse! | |
| 1967 | The Complete Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1968 | The Blue Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1969 | Yusef Lateef's Detroit | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1967 |
| 1969 | The Diverse Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1968 |
| 1970 | Suite 16 | Atlantic | |
| 1971 | The Gentle Giant | Atlantic | Includes two tracks from 1970 |
| 1972 | Hush 'N' Thunder | Atlantic | |
| 1973 | Part of the Search | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1971 |
| 1974 | 10 Years Hence | Atlantic | Live album with studio overdubs |
| 1976 | The Doctor is In... and Out | Atlantic | |
| 1977 | Autophysiopsychic | CTI | With Art Farmer |
| 1979 | In a Temple Garden | CTI | |
| 1983 | Yusef Lateef in Nigeria | Landmark | |
| 1983 | Hikima - Creativity | Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies | Live album - limited edition |
| 1987 | Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony | Atlantic | Grammy Award for Best New Age Album |
| 1988 | Concerto for Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1989 | Nocturnes | Atlantic | |
| 1990 | Meditations | Atlantic | |
| 1991 | Yusef Lateef's Encounters | Atlantic | |
| 1992 | Heart Vision | YAL | |
| 1992 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp | YAL | With Archie Shepp |
| 1992 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman | YAL | With Von Freeman |
| 1992 | Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads | YAL | |
| 1993 | Tenors featuring Rene McLean | YAL | With Rene McLean |
| 1993 | Woodwinds | YAL | With Ralph M. Jones III |
| 1993 | The African-American Epic Suite | ACT | |
| 1993 | Metamorphosis | YAL | |
| 1993 | Claiming Open Spaces | YAL | Soundtrack |
| 1994 | Suite Life | YAL | |
| 1994 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef & Ricky Ford | YAL | With Ricky Ford |
| 1994 | Cantata | YAL | |
| 1995 | The World at Peace | YAL/Meta | Live album with Adam Rudolph |
| 1996 | Yusef Lateef's Fantasia for Flute | YAL | |
| 1996 | Full Circle | YAL | |
| 1997 | Sonata Fantasia | YAL | With Alex J. Marcelo |
| 1997 | CHNOPS: Gold & Soul | YAL | |
| 1997 | Earth and Sky | YAL | With Sayyd A. Al-Khabyyr |
| 1998 | 9 Bagatelles | YAL | |
| 1998 | Like the Dust | YAL | |
| 1999 | Live in Seattle | YAL | With Adam Rudolph |
| 1999 | A Goodness Inwardness Forgiving Tolerance | YAL | With Adam Rudolph |
| 2000 | Beyond the Sky | YAL/Meta | With Adam Rudolph |
| 2001 | Live at the Luckman Theater | YAL | With Eternal Wind |
| 2001 | Earriptus | YAL | |
| 2001 | So Peace | YAL | |
| 2002 | A Tribute Concert for Yusef Lateef | YAL | Live album |
| 2002 | Homage to Yusef Lateef | YAL | Live album with Corvini-Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble |
| 2003 | In the Garden | YAL | With Adam Rudolph and Go: Organic Orchestra |
| 2004 | Roots Run Deep | RogueArt | With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto - released 2012 |
| 2005 | Influence | B-Flat/Discograph | With Stéphane Belmondo and Lionel Belmondo |
| 2008 | Voice Prints | Meta | With Roscoe Mitchell, Adam Rudolph and Douglas R. Ewart - released 2012 |
| 2009 | Towards the Unknown | Meta | With Adam Rudolph - released 2010 |
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Yusef Lateef -Youtube Music Videos:
Yusef Lateef - Like It Is
Yusef Lateef - In The Evening
Bill Allegretti
Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute
MonkeyIslandBlues
Yusef Lateef - Love Theme From Spartacus
born2beblue
Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef Lateef - Nubian Lady
Cèsar Sandoval Tapia
Yusef Lateef - Queen of the Night
Cèsar Sandoval Tapia
Yusef Lateef - African Song
Jazzmaker5277's channel
Yusef LATEEF - Taboo
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef LATEEF - Minor mood
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef LATEEF - Revelation
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef LATEEF - Jungle fantasy
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef LATEEF - Summer song
TheJPDM's channel
Yusef Lateef - I Need You
Lalo Cabañas
Yusef Lateef - Warm Hearted Blues
Pierre Dulieu
Yusef Lateef - Nile Valley Blues
Pierre Dulieu
Yusef Lateef - Morning
30 Birds Jazz
Trouble In Mind (Yusef Lateef on Oboe)
Lonely Man Violine
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - Live in Milan 2012
Melody Heart
ALBUMS:
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sound
(ΑLBUM,1961)
1. The Plum Blossom 00:00
2. Blues For The Orient 05:04
3. Ching Miau 10:44
4. Don't Blame Me 14:04
5. Love Theme From Spartacus 18:59
6. Snafu 23:15
7. Purple Flower 28:57
8. Love Theme From The Robe 33:29
9. Three Faces Of Balal 37:31
Beat Kamo
Yusef Lateef: The Doctor Is In... and Out
(ΑLBUM 1976)
"The Improvisers" - 7:55
"Hellbound" (Kenny Barron) - 6:38
"Mystique" (Barron) - 7:42
"Mississippi Mud" - 2:53
"Mushmouth" (Barron) - 6:28
"Technological Homosapien" - 5:19
"Street Musicians" - 2:57
"In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)"
(Sam M. Lewis, Mabel Wayne, Joe Young) - 3:26
(Sam M. Lewis, Mabel Wayne, Joe Young) - 3:26
Corneel Van Driel
Yusef Lateef: Lost in Sound
(ΑLBUM,1961)
0:00 Outside Blues
3:18 Soul Blues
6:50 Blue Rocky
11:23 Dexterity
17:34 Trudy's Delight
21:54 Introlude
26:09 Train Stop
30:19 Big Foot
Brian Hendricks
Yusef Lateef: Autophysiopsychic
(ΑLBUM,1977)
"Robot Man" - 6:39
"Look on the Right Side" - 5:10
"Yl" (David Matthews) - 7:58
"Communication" - 9:23
"Sister Mamie" - 10:06
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