Yusef Lateef Quartet Live at the Davenport Jazz Festival, Restaurant/Zaal Groenendaal, Doetinchem, The Netherlands, October 22, 1971. Recorded by VPRO in The Netherlands.
-Setlist:
01. Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
02. I’ll Remember April (Don Raye, Gene DePaul, Patricia Johnston)
03. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (Ned Washington, George Bassman)
04. In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down (Don Raye, LeRoy Carr)
05. Yusef’s Mood (Yusef Lateef) / Broadcast outro
-Lineup:
Yusef Lateef - flute, oboe, tenorsax
Kenny Barron - piano
Bob Cunningham - bass
Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath - drums
Yusef A. Lateef was born William Emanuel Huddleston on October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Detroit in 1925. In Detroit’s fertile musical environment, Yusef soon established long-standing friendships with such masters of American music as Milt Jackson, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, the Jones brothers (Hank, Thad and Elvin), Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, Lucky Thompson and Matthew Rucker. He was already proficient on tenor saxophone while in high school, and at the age of 18 began touring professionally with swing bands led by Hartley Toots, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Herbie Fields and eventually Lucky Millender. In 1949 he was invited to join the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra.
In 1950 he returned to Detroit, where he began to study composition and flute at Wayne State University, receiving his early training in flute from Larry Teal. He also converted to Islam in the Ahmadiyya movement and took the name Yusef Lateef. From 1955–1959 he led a quintet including Curtis Fuller, Hugh Lawson, Louis Hayes and Ernie Farrell. In 1958 he began studying oboe with Ronald Odemark of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Returning to New York in 1960, Yusef undertook further studies in flute with Harold Jones and John Wummer at the Manhattan School of Music, from which he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music in 1969 and his Master’s Degree in Music Education in 1970. Later, as a member of the school’s theory department in 1971, he taught courses in autophysiopsychic music. From 1972–1976, he was an associate professor of music at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
As an instrumentalist with his own ensemble, Yusef Lateef performed extensively in concert halls and at colleges and music festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Japan and Africa, often conducting master classes and symposia in conjunction with his performances. Dating from the release of the double CD “Influence” with the Belmondo Brothers in 2005, his engagements at international music festivals increased significantly. Over the years his touring ensembles included such master musicians as Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, Hugh Lawson, Albert Heath, Roy Brooks, Ernie Farrell, Cecil McBee, Bob Cunningham, Adam Rudolph, Charles Moore, Ralph Jones and Federico Ramos as well as Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo.
(Pastdaily).
Дата на публикация: 17 септември, 2023
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