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Yusef Lateef: Ten Years Hence

Read "Ten Years Hence" reviewed by Bert Bailey


This 2008 release of a live 1975 performance at San Francisco's Keystone Korner may appeal to Lateef completists, but those still new to him or curious about his fame might consider starting elsewhere.The first of Ten Years Hence's five long numbers is Bob Cunningham's three-part “Samba De Amor," which begins with the bassist bowing ...

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Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes

Read "Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes" reviewed by Russ Musto


“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...

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Eastern Sounds

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Plum Blossom; Blues for the Orient; Ching Miau; Don't Blame Me; Love theme from Spartacus; Snafu; Purple Flower; Love Theme from The Robe; The Three Faces of Balal.

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Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds

Read "Eastern Sounds" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Eastern Sounds, newly remastered by Rudy van Gelder (the storied engineer who recorded the original September 1961 session), marks an early stage in Yusef Lateef's development. In particular, the record highlights two characteristics that would come to define his artistic identity: a spiritual streak and a fascination with non-Western music. Like John Coltrane (whose path resembles ...

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Yusef Lateef: Roots & Routes

Read "Yusef Lateef: Roots & Routes" reviewed by Tom Greenland


Yusef Lateef is one of the first practitioners of “our music" to embrace “the other", those peoples and cultures far removed geographically and often ideologically from the sounds and sensibilities of North America. A renaissance man for the new millennium, Lateef is a philosopher, organologist, composer/arranger/performer, educator, author and acoustic Argonaut. He'll be in town in ...

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Beautiful Flowers

Label: The ACT Company
Released: 2005

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Psychicemotus

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Psychicemotus; Bamboo Flute Blues; Semiocto; Why Do I Love You?; First Gymnopedie; Medula Sonata; I'll Always Be In Love With You; Ain't Misbehavin'.

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Yusef Lateef: Psychicemotus

Read "Psychicemotus" reviewed by Norman Weinstein


This is a welcome reissue of one of a series of fine Impulse! albums by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef that have never taken their deserved place among the major recordings of the '60s. I suspect part of the reason for their neglect has to do with the image, helped by both the Impulse!, and later Atlantic labels, ...

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In the Garden

Label: Meta
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1-Little Tree; Nanna; Morphic Resonance; Lobelia, Euphorbia, Rock; Trace Elements; Root Pressure. Disc 2-Amanita; Formative Impulses; Moisture Droplet; Chaotic Attractors.

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The Golden Flute

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Road Runner 2. Straighten Up and Fly Right 3. Oasis 4. I Don


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