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The Diverse Yusef Lateef

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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

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Genres
  
World music, Jazz fusion, World fusion music

Similar
  
Yusef Lateef albums, Other albums

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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").

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Live Humble" – 6:48
  2. "A Long Time Ago" – 6:37
  3. "Eboness" (Roy Brooks) – 4:44
  4. "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

    • Songs

    1Live Humble6:45
    2A Long Time Ago6:36
    3Eboness4:42

    References

    The Diverse Yusef Lateef Wikipedia
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