Yusef Lateef

• 3 panel DIGIPACK EDITION

Some of the most spiritual work we've heard from Yusef Lateef in years – a set cut with AACM legends Roscoe Mitchell and Douglas Ewart, and done with a sound that takes us back to the legendary sounds of both players in the 70s!

Adam Rudolph also joins the quartet, bringing in some great percussion – and the album's a really collaborative affair, with all the musicians shifting through a wide range of instrumentation in their own spheres of expertise – at a level that recalls the work of the Art Ensemble of Chicago at their best. Lateef plays tenor, flutes, oboe, and even vocalizes a bit – as does Ewart, who along with Roscoe Mitchell plays a range of reeds and percussion instruments.

PERSONNEL:

• Yusef Lateef
• (tenor saxophone, oboe, C flute, alto flute, bamboo flutes, vocal, piano on 3)

• Roscoe Mitchell
• (soprano, sopranino, alto saxophones, C flute, bells and percussion)

• Douglas R. Ewart
• (sopranino saxophone, C flute, glass didgeridoo, voice, bass clarinet, gongs, bells, percussion, sirens, Ewart hotchiku, bass transverse flute and other bamboo flutes)

• Adam Rudolph
• (handdrumset (conga and tumbas), frame drum, kalimba, slit drum, berber horn, percussion, piano on 2)

Recorded live at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN. December 2008

TRACKS:

• 01. Voice Prints
• 02. Sound Search
• 03. Harpers Ferry
• 04. Morning Moves