Yusef Lateef

Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds (Remastered 2023) (2024) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 00:39:57 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:57 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds” fuses hard bop with middle eastern music as he is joined by Barry Harris on piano alongside Ernie Farrow (double bass, rabaab) and Lex Humphries (drums). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on 192/24 hi res digital.

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Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds…..And Other Sounds! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:22 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Yusef Lateef’s incorporation of Asian traditions, modes and instruments into his music has aroused great sympathy among jazz audiences. Perhaps the fascination lay in the seemingly ineradicable human need for mysticism, perhaps in the infinite appeal of the sadness and beauty of minor keys. In any case, there was considerable demand for Lateef’s numerous recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, which reflected his fascination with the Oriental. “Eastern Sounds” was indeed one of his biggest sellers. One of jazz’s warmest and most accessible soloists, Lateef has mastered not only conventional reed instruments but many unconventional ones as well. Here he uses only tenor saxophone, flute and oboe, creating mystery and exoticism.

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Yusef Lateef – Yusef Lateef’s Little Symphony (1987/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:29 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Released in 1987, Yusef Lateef’s Little Symphony found the multi-instrumentalist incorporating riveting jazz improvisations throughout this exquisite four-movement work. Every soaring instrumentation found on the record is performed by Lateef including the water drum, percussive sitar, flutes, reeds, shannie, gourdophone and kalangu. The album earned Grammy Award for Best New Age Album despite having no prior association with the genre.

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Yusef Lateef – The Gentle Giant (1972/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:39 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef mesmerizes with his 1972 release, The Gentle Giant. His innovative style revolutionized the jazz scene. A mix of jazz with soul, the album showcases Lateef’s unmatched musicianship. Lateef performs numerous wind instruments on the album but the true highlight is his funky use of the flute. The stunning album includes an upbeat “Nubian Lady,” a groovy “Jungle Plum” and an inspired rendition of “Hey Jude.”

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Yusef Lateef – The Centaur And The Phoenix (1960/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:33 minutes | 820 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Centaur and the Phoenix is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.

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Yusef Lateef – Prayer To the East (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:37 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Prayer to the East is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label.

The title track was composed by Ali Jackson, drummer Oliver Jackson’s brother.

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Yusef Lateef – Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1966 (Remastered) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records

This is a previously unreleased 1966 live club performance from Yusef Lateef, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist whose mixing of jazz and Eastern music was a great influence on some of the finest musicians of the era including John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.

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Yusef Lateef – Jazz Moods (1957/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:31 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Jazz Mood is the first released album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1957 and released on the Savoy label. The album was produced from Lateef’s second recording session.

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Yusef Lateef – Into Something (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:06 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Into Something is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1961 and released on the New Jazz label.

The Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanowdescribed it as a “superior set.. a well rounded program” and “a particularly memorable performance”.

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Yusef Lateef – In A Temple Garden (1979/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:06 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CTI Records

In a Temple Garden is an album by American multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef recorded in 1979 and released on the CTI label.

An obscure one for Yusef Lateef – and proof that the reedman was always open to new ideas at every single point in his career! Lateef had already recorded for the CTI label on a few great previous albums – but this album is quite late in his run for the label, and has a slightly different vibe – maybe a bit smooth at points, but also plenty darn soulful too! The overall format is in the vein of a lot of CTI sides from this time – larger group and larger arrangements, handled by Jeremy Wall, with enough space for Yusef to dominate the record with his solos on tenor and flute – blowing openly and soulfully, with a nice straight ahead vibe. The tunes aren’t as exotic as the title might imply, but they do hit some really nice moments that seem to breathe new life into Lateef’s career – and set the stage for a lot of his 80s recordings to come. Titles include “Nayaz”, “Jeremiah”, “Morocco”, “In A Temple Garden”, and “Bismillah”.

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Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:25 minutes | 440 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Whether his albums appeared under the logo of the forward-looking New Jazz, the contemplative Moodsville, or the parent label, Yusef Lateef never failed to offer a singular blend of jazz verities and cross-cultural initiatives in his years as a Prestige artist. Eastern Sounds, originally presented as a Moodsville disc, satisfied its initial mandate with tender readings of two movie themes and a luxurious “Don’t Blame Me,” while also including hard-swinging tenor sax (“Snafu”), soulful oboe (“Blues for the Orient”), and such iconoclastic colors as the sound of the Chinese globular flute and the Indian rabat (both heard on “The Plum Blossom”). A stellar working band, featuring fellow Detroiter Barry Harris on piano, helps the multi-instrumental pioneer Lateef realize his one-world vision of a music that knows neither stylistic boundaries nor expressive limitations.

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Yusef Lateef – Cry!-Tender (1960/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:53 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Cry! – Tender is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.

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