Yusef Lateef

Live at Ronnie Scott (RSGB1008)

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1966

Live at Ronnie Scott

Yusef Lateef

Gearbox

5065001717390

LPS 149402

RSGB1008

JAZZ

1

Live at Ronnie Scott`s, 15th January 1966

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LP 26,98 €

180 GRAM VINYL

This crisp vinyl issue of previously unreleased material presents a typical night at Scott’s in the 60’s when there was a top soloist in residence and the house rhythm section was on good form. Ronnie Scott thought knowledge of recording might inhibit the band as it did him, so he asked Les Tomkins to secretly tape the music on his Ferrograph from a back room. In any event, on one occasion Lateef on flute carefully constructs an inventive solo that might have had other qualities if he had known he was on record. Occasionally the piano sounds distant but that was due no doubt to not having every instrument balanced with a microphone.

Lateef’s programme is mainly blues, perhaps chosen because he didn’t know what rhythm section he might find. As it was, he was exceptionally well served by Tracey and company and announces mid-concert that they are some of the finest musicians he’s ever had the pleasure to perform with. Blues From The Orient has Lateef on the shenai, a high-pitched type of oboe which sounds very exotic. His flute work is also very intense and personal and the backing by Tracey matches the leader at times. Song Of Delilah is a low-down dirty blues, played at slow tempi on flute with the rhythm section pacing him faithfully. It all makes for a very authentic sounding night at Scott’s way back when and is the nearest anyone can get to actually being there, as it happened then.

PERSONNEL:

  • Yusef Lateef - flute, shenai, xun, and tenor sax
  • Stan Tracey - piano
  • Rick Laird - bass
  • Bill Eyden - drums

Recorded live at Ronnie's Scott, January 15, 1966.

TRACKS:

  • SIDE A:
  • A1. Angel Eyes
  • A2. Blues For The Orient
  • A3. Song of Delilah
  • SIDE B:
  • B1. Last Night Blues
  • B2. Yusef's Mood