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Yusef Lateef/Adam Rudolph-Go: Organic Orchestra: In the Garden

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by Rex Butters
May 1, 2004

Adam Rudolph’s third recording with the Go:Organic Orchestra finds the master percussionist in collaboration with longtime friend and associate, jazz legend Yusef Lateef. The recording documents a performance at Venice’s Electric Lodge, a homebase for Rudolph. Uniting 22 of our town’s most interesting musicians including Emily Hay, Bennie Maupin, Sara Schoenbeck, Chris Heenan, Cory Wright, Alex Cline, and Harris Eisenstadt, In the Garden features performances from the entire orchestra as well as moving duets by Rudolph and Lateef. The two ...

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Yusuf Lateef: The Blue Lateef

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2001

Let me start out by saying this is one fine, tasty disc. For those unfamiliar with Lateef’s work, he is a multi-reedist, composer, arranger who has been working from at least the 1950s and is still going strong, making the textures of music richer for all. This is significant; Lateef is the one who brought the world into jazz, a ground breaker who used ancient and popular forms to make all kinds of strong music. There were some lapses, of ...

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Yusek Lateef/Adam Rudolph: Beyond The Sky

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2000

Like many a jazz listener, I roll my eyes and flip radio stations when the announcer calls out the next tune as ‘world music.’ I do this because what every jazz fan knows is all music is world music, and jazz is the ultimate synthesis of the world’s music. Many of today’s ‘world music’ artists are as original/creative as those $20 Rolex watches sold downtown. The 1970s disease of mediocrity called “fusion” plagues them. This infection allowed for the rise ...

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Yusef Lateef: The Last Savoy Sessions

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by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2000

Savoy Jazz is taking its re-issues seriously, and so is Orrin Keepnews, the re-issue producer. With taste, dedication, craftsmanship, attention to detail, and style, Savoy recently has released an astounding and seemingly uninterrupted series of recordings from Savoy's heyday. The jazz world is the better for the re-releases, allowing us to investigate the nooks and crannies of earlier jazz work and to revise our assumptions and to add to our knowledge and to acknowledge various influences that heretofore may have ...

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Yusef Lateef: The Man With The Big Front Yard

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 1998

Yusef Lateef creates confounding listening situations. He's a deeply passionate musician who, to this day, explores the gamut of musical experience (check out his recent, nearly two dozen diverse YAL releases). Additionally, he's a thoughtful, erudite thinker who, with emotional conviction, delves into multifaceted musical journeys. But he consistently challenges preconceptions; recording albums that mix jazz, blues, gospel, Eastern, funk, pop, free, classical, meditative and other styles as he sees fit. His music is never dictated by demographic limitations. Still, ...