Yusef Lateef

• DELUXE 180 GRAM REISSUE

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One of his best albums from the mid-Sixties, Yusef Lateef's 1984 is a truly experimental work. With bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Mike Nock, and drummer James Black, it goes from the eight-minute title track that opens the album to the two-minute, angular modal ballad "Try Love."

Reviewer Thom Jurek gave it four out of five stars in AllMusic, stating that, "1984 certainly seems to be shaping up into one weird record. The title is an experimental, noodling improv that has Lateef literally moaning as if in mourning throughout. But then with 'Soul Sister,' featuring Lateef's deep, bluesy, tenor blowing around a gorgeous lyric figure, and Mike Nock's stunningly beautiful soloing on 'Love Waltz,' the entire album moves in another direction, even if it isn't terribly focused. In all, a complex yet very emotionally and musically rewarding effort by a master."

PERSONNEL:

• Yusef Lateef - (tenor sax, flute, oboe)
• Mike Nock - (piano)
• Reggie Workman - (bass)
• James Black - (drums)

Recorded in New York, February 24, 1965

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. 1984
• A2. Try Love
• A3. Soul Sister
• A4. Love Waltz

• SIDE B
• B1. One Little Indian
• B2. Listen To The Wind
• B3. Warm Fire
• B4. Gee! Sam Gee
• B5. The Greatest Story Ever Told