The Diverse Yusef Lateef

Updated on Nov 25, 2024

Edit

Comment

Released January 15, 1970 Length 27:49 Artist Yusef Lateef Label Atlantic Records		Recorded April 1968 – May 1969 The Diverse Yusef Lateef(1969) Suite 16(1970) Release date 15 January 1970 Producer Joel Dorn

Genres World music, Jazz fusion, World fusion music Similar Yusef Lateef albums, Other albums

Yusef lateef nubian lady

The Diverse Yusef Lateef is a jazz album by saxophonist Yusef Lateef released in 1970. In it are mixed influences from rhythm and blues and soul music (notably on "Live Humble") and world music (notably on "A Long Time Ago" or "Chandra").

Track listing

"Live Humble" – 6:48
"A Long Time Ago" – 6:37
"Eboness" (Roy Brooks) – 4:44
"Chandra" – 9:37

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated

Personnel

Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute, bamboo flute, Chinese globular flute, Chinese Buddhist flute, kulintang, Chinese cymbals, tambura, string arrangement

Richard Tee – piano

Chuck Rainey – Fender bass

Cecil McBee – acoustic bass

Ray Baretto – congas

Bernard Purdie – drums, timbales

Hugh Lawson – piano, Indian bells

Roy Brooks – drums, shofar, Chinese gong, large conga drum

Selwart Clarke, Jesse Tryon, Alfred Brown, Kermit Moore – string quartet

The Sweet Inspirations – vocal backgrounds

Joel Dorn – producer