Yusef Lateef discography
Appearance
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A discography of the multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef (1920–2013).
Discography
[edit]As leader/co-leader
[edit]Recording date | Title / Co-leader | Label | Year released | Notes |
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1957-04 | Jazz for the Thinker | Savoy | 1957 | Album from Savoy Records[1] |
1957-04 | Jazz Mood | Savoy | 1957 | Debut album from the second recording session |
1957-04 | Stable Mates | Savoy | 1957 | Split album with A. K. Salim |
1957-04 | Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef | Verve | 1958 | |
1957–10 | Prayer to the East | Savoy | 1957 | |
1957–10 | Jazz and the Sounds of Nature | Savoy | 1958 | |
1957–10 | The Sounds of Yusef | Prestige | 1958 | |
1957–10 | Other Sounds also released as Expression! (1969) |
Prestige/New Jazz | 1959 | |
1958–04 | Lateef at Cranbrook | Argo | 1958 | Live at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit |
1959–06 | The Dreamer | Savoy | 1959 | |
1959–06 | The Fabric of Jazz | Savoy | 1959 | |
1957–10, 1959-10 |
Cry! – Tender | Prestige/New Jazz | 1960 | |
1960–05 | The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef also released as This Is Yusef Lateef (1968) |
Riverside | 1960 | |
1960-10 | The Centaur and the Phoenix | Riverside | 1960 | Bonus tracks are recorded in 1961 |
1961–08 | Lost in Sound | Charlie Parker | 1962 | |
1961–09 | Eastern Sounds | Prestige/Moodsville | 1962 | |
1961–12 | Into Something | Prestige/New Jazz | 1962 | |
1963–12 | Jazz 'Round the World | Impulse! | 1964 | |
1964–06 | Live at Pep's (Volume 1 & Volume 2) | Impulse! | 1965 | Live at Pep's in Philadelphia |
1965–02 | 1984 | Impulse! | 1965 | |
1965–07 | Psychicemotus | Impulse! | 1965 | |
1965–12, 1966-01 |
Live in London | Harkit | 2004 | Live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London |
1966–03 | A Flat, G Flat and C | Impulse! | 1966 | |
1966–06 | The Golden Flute | Impulse! | 1967 | |
1967–06 | The Complete Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | 1968 | |
1968–04 | The Blue Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | 1968 | |
1967–06, 1969-02 |
Yusef Lateef's Detroit | Atlantic | 1969 | |
1968–04, 1969-05 |
The Diverse Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | 1970 | |
1970–04 | Suite 16 | Atlantic | 1970 | |
1970–04, 1971-09 |
The Gentle Giant | Atlantic | 1972 | |
1972-05, 1972-09 |
Hush 'N' Thunder | Atlantic | 1973 | |
1971–09, 1973-04, 1973-05, 1973-12 |
Part of the Search | Atlantic | 1974 | |
1974–07 | 10 Years Hence | Atlantic | 1975 | [2LP] Live recording at Keystone Korner with studio overdubs |
1976–03 | The Doctor Is In... and Out | Atlantic | 1976 | |
1977–10 | Autophysiopsychic | CTI | 1977 | With Art Farmer (trumpet) |
1977–11 | At The Bottom Line | YAL | 2006 | Live at The Bottom Line in NYC |
1979–05 | In a Temple Garden | CTI | 1979 | |
1983? | Hikima: Creativity | Ahmadu Bello University | 1983 | [LP] Research in Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies. Reissued in 2019.[2] |
1983–07 | In Nigeria | Landmark | 1985 | |
1987–06 | Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony | Atlantic | 1987 | Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording[3] |
1986–05, 1988-03 |
Concerto for Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | 1988 | |
1989? | Nocturnes | Atlantic | 1989 | |
1990? | Meditations | Atlantic | 1990 | |
1991–01 | Yusef Lateef's Encounters | Atlantic | 1991 | Backing Vocals – Nnenna Freelon |
1991 | Yusef Lateef's Metamusic | YAL | 2020 | [CD] Limited edition[4] |
1992–01 | Heart Vision | YAL | 1992 | Recorded in Bentonia, Mississippi |
1992–01 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp with Archie Shepp | YAL | 1992 | |
1992? | Concerto for Woodwinds | YAL | 1992 | |
1992–07 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman with Von Freeman | YAL | 1992 | |
1992–12 | Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads | YAL | 1993 | |
1993–05 | Tenors featuring Rene McLean | YAL | 1993 | With René McLean (tenor saxophone) |
1993–07 | Woodwinds | YAL | 1993 | With Ralph M. Jones III |
1993–10, 1993-11 |
The African-American Epic Suite (For Quintet and Orchestra) | ACT | 1994 | Recorded at WDR Cologne |
1993–12 | Metamorphosis ∞ | YAL/Bomba | 1994 | |
1993–12 | Claiming Open Spaces: Music from the Soundtrack | YAL | 1994 | Soundtrack of the documentary film Claiming Open Spaces (1995) by Austin Allen[5] |
1994–05 | Suite Life | YAL | 1994 | |
1994 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef & Ricky Ford with Ricky Ford | YAL/Bomba | 1996 | |
1994–12 | Cantata | YAL | 1995 | Research album |
1995-06 | The World at Peace (Music For 12 Musicians) with Adam Rudolph | YAL/Meta | 1997 | [2CD] Live at The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles |
1995–12 | Yusef Lateef's Fantasia for Flute | YAL | 1996 | |
1996–05 | Full Circle | YAL | 1996 | |
1997–01 | Earth and Sky (Tenors and Flutes) with Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr | YAL | 1997 | |
1997 | Sonata Fantasia with Alex J. Marcelo | YAL | 1997 | |
1997 | Chnops: Gold and Soul | YAL | 1997 | |
1998 | 9 Bagatelles | YAL | 1998 | |
1998 | Like the Dust (Flutes, Guitars & Percussion) | YAL | 1999 | |
1999–01 | Live in Seattle with Adam Rudolph | YAL | 1999 | Live album |
2000–02 | Beyond the Sky with Adam Rudolph | YAL/Meta | 2000 | In celeration of Lateef's 80th birthday year |
2000 | A G.I.F.T. (Goodness Inwardness Forgiving Tolerance) | YAL | 2000 | |
2001 | So Peace | YAL | 2001 | Featuring Sylvia Cooper O'Daniel |
2001-04 | Live at The Luckman Theater with Eternal Wind | YAL | 2001 | [CD / DVD-Video] Live at The Luckman Theater, California State University, Los Angeles[6] |
2001 | Ear Riptus | YAL | 2002 | With Matt Waugh |
2002-02 | Homage To Yusef Lateef with Corvini & Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble | YAL | 2002 | Live at The Teatro Metastasio in Prato (Metastasio Jazz 2002) |
2002-09 | A Tribute Concert for Yusef Lateef | YAL | 2002 | YAL's 10th Anniversary live album[7] |
2003-03 | In the Garden with Adam Rudolph and "Go: Organic Orchestra" | YAL/Meta | 2003 | [2CD] Live at The Electric Lodge in Los Angeles |
2004–03, 2004-08 |
Roots Run Deep | RogueArt | 2012 | With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto |
2005–03 | Influence with Stéphane Belmondo and Lionel Belmondo | B-Flat recordings | 2007 | [2CD] |
2008–12 | Voice Prints with Roscoe Mitchell, Adam Rudolph and Douglas R. Ewart | Meta | 2013 | Live at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis |
2009-09 | Towards the Unknown with Adam Rudolph | Meta | 2010 | With Go: Organic Orchestra Strings. Recorded at Roulette Intermedium in NYC. |
2012-06 | Live at the Olympia with Ahmad Jamal | Meta | 2014 | [2CD + DVD-Video] Live at The Olympia in Paris[8] |
Compilation
- The Last Savoy Sessions (Savoy Jazz, 2000)[2CD]
As a member
[edit]Universal Quartet
(With Adam Rudolph, Kasper Tranberg and Kresten Osgood)
- Universal Quartet (Blackout Music, 2009) – rec. 2008
- Light (ILK Music, 2013) – rec. 2009
As sideman
[edit]
With Cannonball Adderley
With Curtis Fuller
With Charles Mingus
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With others
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References
[edit]- ^ "Yusef Lateef Catalog - album index". Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
- ^ "Jazz saxophonist Yusef Lateef's elusive 1983 album Hikima: Creativity reissued for the first time". The Vinyl Factory. May 7, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ "Yusef Lateef". Recording Academy. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ^ "YAL Records Catalog". Yusef Lateef. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
- ^ Audrey Thomas McCluskey, ed. (2007). Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Indiana University Press. p. 153.
- ^ "lateef & weston concert". California State University, Los Angeles. April 13, 2001.
- ^ "Musical tribute planned in honor of Yusef Lateef". University of Massachusetts Amherst. September 13, 2002. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
- ^ Jazz, All About. "Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef: Live At The Olympia album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-07-26.