The Diverse Yusef Lateef
1970 studio album by Yusef Lateef
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The Diverse Yusef Lateef saxophonist Yusef Lateef released in 1970. In it are mixed influences from rhythm and blues and soul music (particularly on "Live Humble") and world music (notably on "A Long Time Ago" or "Chandra").
Track listing
All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated.
"Live Humble" – 6:48
"A Long Time Ago" – 6:37
"Eboness" (Roy Brooks ) – 4:44
"Chandra" – 9:37
Personnel
Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone , track 1 - flute , 2-4 - bamboo flute , Chinese globular flute, Chinese Buddhist flute, kulintang , -track 2 Chinese cymbals , tambura , string arrangement
Richard Tee – piano - track 1Chuck Rainey – Fender bass Cecil McBee – acoustic bass Ray Baretto – congas - track 1Bernard Purdie – drums, timbales Hugh Lawson – piano, 3 and 4 Indian bells - track 2Roy Brooks – drums, shofar , Chinese gong , large conga drumSelwart Clarke, Jesse Tryon, Alfred Brown, Kermit Moore – string quartet - track 4
The Sweet Inspirations – vocal backgrounds - tracks 1 and 2Joel Dorn – producer
References
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As Split With
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie Byrd Jazz Donald Byrd , 1955)Autumn Leaves Cannonball Adderley , 1963)Nippon Soul That's Right! Nat Adderley , 1960)My Kinda Swing Ernestine Anderson , 1960)1st Bassman Paul Chambers , 1960)Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone Curtis Fuller , 1960)Images of Curtis Fuller Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef Pre-Bird /Mingus Revisited Charles Mingus , 1960)Breezing Sonny Red , 1960)Color Changes Clark Terry , 1960)Soulnik Doug Watkins , 1960)Uhuru Afrika Randy Weston , 1960)Grantstand Grant Green , 1961)The African Beat Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble , 1962)The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York Cannonball in Europe! Cannonball Adderley , 1962)Drum Suite Slide Hampton , 1962)Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy Invitation to Openness Les McCann , 1971)Homeless Brother Don McLean , 1974)Double Time Leon Redbone , 1977)Something You Got Art Farmer , 1977)
