Yusef Lateef

• Replica Mini LP-Style Sleeve CD with Obi strip

This is a previously unreleased live club performance from Yusef Lateef, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist whose mixing of jazz and Eastern music was a great influence on some of the finest musicians of the era including John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.

Accompanied at Ronnie Scott’s by the house band of pianist Stan Tracey, double bassist Rick Laird and drummer Bill Eyden, most of the repertoire played comes from Lateef’s earlier recordings for Savoy and Prestige such as Jazz Moods and Eastern Sounds. Lateef plays flute on The Dreamer and Last Night Blues (it was the last night of the run). He plays the shenai - a kind of oboe - on Blues for The Orient, the xun - a Chinese flute - on Song of Delilah, and tenor saxophone on Yusef’s Mood.

PERSONNEL:

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

Recorded at Ronnie Scott´s January 15th, 1966

TRACKS:

• 01. Angel Eyes
• 02. Blues For The Orient
• 03. Song Of Delilah
• 04. Last Night Blues
• 05. Yusef’s Mood