Shawn Posted March 4, 2006 Report Posted March 4, 2006 Wow. I've been a huge Lateef fan for awhile now (thank you Lon), but really haven't ventured past the Savoy/Prestige/Impulse dates that much. Found this album online this morning and it kicked my ass awake! The title of this album is perfect, it does paint a clear portrait of where Yusef was at circa 1968. The rhythm section is brilliant: Hugh Lawson, Cecil McBee and Roy Brooks. Lateef's music required very astute players that could do justice to all the shifting colors he painted with. There isn't a single wasted second on this album, every song is a gem, concise but with plenty of open space for exploration. I especially liked the overdubbed flute/tenor on See Line Woman. Cecil McBee is the hippest cat on the planet.... Any other fans of this record? What other Atlantic Lateef records are essential? Quote
sheldonm Posted March 4, 2006 Report Posted March 4, 2006 ...don't have this recording but should pick it up. I am going to see Lateef for the first time, next month ! m~ Quote
mikeweil Posted March 4, 2006 Report Posted March 4, 2006 His Atlantic LPs start out like the one you have and get more soul-influenced with each new one. But the first four are pretty much in that bag, although a mixed one - everything from straightahead to experimental to soul is in it: The Complete Yusef Lateef The Diverse Yusef Lateef The Blue Yuself Lateef Yusef Lateef's Detroit Quote
JSngry Posted March 4, 2006 Report Posted March 4, 2006 You'll be trippin'! Ten Years Hence - a good-to-great 70s live album on Atlantic. "Yusef's Mood" is a freakin' encylopedia of R&B tenor, and then some. Sorry, LP only, I believe. Yusel Lateef In Nigeria, Landmark, LP only(?). If you dug him on A,K, Salim's Afro Soul/Drum Orgy, then you'll love this one. Unlike most, apparently, I also enjoy the "New Age" albums he made later on for Atlantic. Not really "jazz", but definitely Lateef-ian to the core. You have to adjust your expectations and listening perspective, but where's the harm in that? The YAL sides are a varied lot, but most of the ones I've heard I can recommend with at least some enthusiasm, the ones w/Ricky Ford (on of the most genuinely wack jazz albums I've ever heard, btw), Von Freeman, & Adam Rudolph with unreseved enthusiasm. Really, the Lateef/Ford side is just plain nuts! Quote
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