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Ten Years Hence
By Yusef Lateef
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Samba De Amor (Fantasy): Samba De Amor (Part 1), Time Montage, Samba De Amor (Part II); Yusef's Mood; But Beautiful; A Flower; I Be Cold.
Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
Yusef Lateef: Ten Years Hence
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 ...
Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes
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 ...
Eastern Sounds
By Yusef Lateef
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.
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds
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 ...
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, ...
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