Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds: Rudy Van Gelder Remasters
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Artist: Yusef LateefEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-07-18
Music Label: Prestige
Soundtracks:
- Blues for the Orient
- Love Theme from "Spartacus"
- Purple Flower
- The Three Faces of Balal
Free Music Notes for Eastern Sounds: Rudy Van Gelder Remasters
Free Music Review: A Unique Vision at Its Clearest
Hit: 5 Stars
One could argue that several of multi-reedsman Yusef Lateef's other albums are as strong as EASTERN SOUNDS; but it's no accident that this 1961 collection has consistently been hailed by both fans and critics as the supreme distillation of his unique and enduring vision - that of jazz as the true "world music."
Lateef's golden era, dating approximately from his first recordings as a leader circa 1956 through the end of his tenure at Impulse! Records a decade later, saw the gifted tenor saxophonist/flautist/oboist release a steady stream of top-quality albums, which over time tended less to break new ground than to reiterate the revolutionary message with which the artist had begun his career: that jazz was wide enough to incorporate anything, from anywhere, and still be jazz. Whether honking away on bizarre Mideastern horns, trying out overtly foreign time signatures and rhythms or employing a deflating balloon as an instrument, Lateef and his various combos produced some of the most exotic and yet most classical sounds of the era, and never more successfully than on EASTERN SOUNDS.
With a characteristic mixture of original compositions, jazz standards and movie themes (which, in lesser hands, might seem like a nod to commercial considerations), EASTERN SOUNDS is as kaleidoscopic in its source material as in its instrumentation, with both running the gamut from stately purist refinement to rousing eclecticism. That the album never for a moment ceases to be coherent, intelligent and beautiful is a testament to Lateef's musical and philosophical acumen. As he proved here and on so many other releases, jazz is indeed a universe, with room enough for all the spheres of sound. The fortunate listener could ask for no more capable pilot through its vastnesses than this eminently gifted, bridge-building visionary.
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