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Yusef Lateef: Roots & Routes
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 ...
Psychicemotus
By Yusef Lateef
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'.
Yusef Lateef: Psychicemotus
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, ...
In the Garden
By Yusef Lateef
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.
The Golden Flute
By Yusef Lateef
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Road Runner 2. Straighten Up and Fly Right 3. Oasis 4. I Don
Yusef Lateef: Jazz 'Round the World
by C. Andrew Hovan
Yusef Lateef Jazz 'Round the World Impulse! 1963With a recent article in JazzTimes covering the history of Impulse Records and the role that prime mover John Coltrane made in securing the label's place in history, it occurred to me that there are still holes in the catalog's reissue ...
Yusef Lateef: The Golden Flute
by David Rickert
It’s a shame that Yusef Lateef is relegated to the second tier of jazz musicians, left as an artist who is known more for his work as a sideman. His abilities as a multi-instrumentalist place him a category with Roland Kirk, yet with none of the acclaim. It’s true that on his Atlantic releases Lateef was ...
Yusef Lateef/Adam Rudolph-Go: Organic Orchestra: In the Garden
by Rex Butters
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 ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
