"yusef Lateef"

Yusef Lateef - Yusef's Mood: Complete 1957 Sessions with Hugh Lawson (1957-58) {4CD Fresh Sound 24bit Remastered rel 2008}
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© 1957, 2008 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 492
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone / Flute / Post Bebop / World Fusion

4CD Set, 32 page booklet. Digitally Remastered 24-Bit / 96 kHz. In 1950, after a year on tour with Dizzy Gillespies band, Yusef Lateef returned to Detroit, the city where he had grown up as a jazz musician. With his powerfully preaching tenor sax tone and fluent, driving style he established himself as an influential presence in the Motor City scene, forming his own quintet in 1955. He made his first recordings as a leader in 1957, a productive year for him, as this gripping 4-CD set reveals.

A truly sensational find, Atlantis Lullaby presents a never-before-heard performance recorded in Avignon, France. Featuring Yusef Lateef in a quartet set with fellow stars Kenny Barron, Bob Cunningham and Albert “Tootie” Heath. Among the highlights are a fantastic flute/piano duet by Lateef and Barron playing the pianist’s beautiful ballad, “A Flower,” as well as extended readings of the classic, “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” Lateef’s “Yusef’s Mood,” and Barron’s “The Untitled.” This project was produced by the renowned Zev Feldman and released in collaboration with the Yusef Lateef Estate. The audio has been transferred and newly remastered from the original concert tapes licensed from the archives of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA).

Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) {Riverside OJCCD-759-2 rel 2006}
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© 1960, 2006 Riverside / Fantasy / Universal | OJCCD-759-2 / 00025218675925
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone / Oboe / Flute

On The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, Riverside seems eager to present Yusef Lateef, technical virtuoso, on a series of songs that step closer to jazz tradition than any of his work in the recent past. Largely absent are Lateef's experiments with Eastern modes, rhythms, and instrumentation, and in their place is a collection of largely upbeat, accessible songs, with a balanced mix of standards and originals. Much of the introspective, personal quality of his previous albums seems lost in the effort, but Lateef's playing still remains stellar, especially on oboe.

Mundell Lowe - Satan in High Heels, Yusef Lateef - Lost in Sound (2012) {Charlie Parker Records, The Complete Collection Vol 3 rec 1961}
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© 1961, 2012 Charlie Parker Records / Membran Media / Documents | 233193 / 3
Jazz / Cool / Hard Bop / Guitar / Saxophone

Exhaustive 30 CD collection from the Jazz legend's short-lived label. Contains 44 original albums (421 tracks) plus booklet. Every record-collector has run across an album with the little sax-playing bird in it's label-logo, right next to the brand name Charlie Parker Records or CP Parker Records. Turning the sleeve over, especially if it was one of the non-Parker releases, and seeing a '60s release date under the header Stereo-pact! Was as exciting an experience as it was confusing. Was the claim Bird Lives meant more literally than previously thought?