Yusef Lateef

• 2-CD SET

• JEWEL CASE FORMAT

Composers/multi-instrumentalists Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph haven co-created a master work so far-reaching in its beauty, range, and significance that, in a better world, this album would inspire T shirts worn across the nation.

Picture a 12-piece orchestra with percussion from Africa, the Americas, India, and the Middle East; a rainbow of wind instruments (shenai, musette, kudu horn, bass clarinet, tuba, saxophone, trumpet, flute); and ethereal strings (cello, harp, violin, and classical acoustic and electric MIDI guitar). Now, picture a seamless integration of those textures and tones, a ritual celebration of live trance beats, shamanistic polyrhythms, melodies with wings, drum skins on fire, space and silence between thick brush strokes of color.

PERSONNEL:

• Yusef Lateef - (tenor saxophone, flute, shenai, bamboo flutes, vocal)
• Adam Rudolph - ( hand drums, bendir, udu drums, talking drum, thumb piano)
• Susan Allen - (harp)
• Marcie Brown - (cello)
• Eric Von Essen - (bass)
• Jeff Gauthier - (violin)
• David Johnson - (vibes, marimba percussion)
• Ralph Jones - (soprano & tenor saxophone, c and alto flute, bass clarinet)
• Charles Moore - (trumpet, dumbek, kudu horn)
• Jose Luis Perez - (trap drums, candombe drums, dumbek)
• Federico Ramos - (acoustic, electric & midi guitars, kudu horn)
• Bill Roper - (tuba, kudu horn)

TRACKS:

• CD ONE:
• 01 Ramifications
• 02 Coltrane Remembered
• 03 Africa 35
• 04 Chaos #3
• 05 Beloved
• 06 Like a Secret Argosy
• 07 Masara #2

• CD TWO
• 01 A Feather in the Bright Sky
• 02 Ourobouros
• 03 Beyond Futility
• 04 Dreaming of the Skyway
• 05 Peace & Love
• 06 Overlay
• 07 Wheel of Life
• 08 Encore