Yusef Lateef (1960 Mono LP Playtested RLP 337 1st Press) Centaur And The Phoenix

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MONO HI-FI – 135 GRAM – 1st PRESSING

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Unique In e-Bay 09/10/17

Artist: Yusef Lateef

Featuring: Clark Terry, Richard Williams, Joe Zawinul, Curtis Fuller, Tate Houston, Lex Humphries, Josea Taylor, Ben Tucker

Album Title: The Centaur And The Phoenix

Catalogue Number: RLP-337

Year/Record Company: 1960 Riverside Records

Recording Studios: October 4 and 6, 1960 (#1-7) Plaza Sound Studios, New York City

June 23, 1961 (#8-9) Bell Sound Studios, New York City

1 LP – Mono HI-FI– 12” inch vinyl record – 33 1/3 – 135 Gram

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This LP album comes from my personal collection & has been playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke & pet free conditions.

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LP Condition: very good

Shine: some

Scratches: several light

Label Wear: very light

Label: silver on royal blue with the “Riverside” logo top center

Spindle Hole Wear: light

Sound: very good

Surface Noise: light

Jacket Condition: very good

Shrink Wrap: none

Seams: light

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink Marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stickers: none

Sleeve: anti-static sleeve, minimal wear

Liner Notes: Chris Albert

The Centaur and the Phoenix is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars with the review by Stacia Proefrock stating it "takes the risks and the innovations that Lateef was known for, and expands them in a number of different directions all at once, leading to an album that bursts with new ideas and textures, while remaining accessible, and above all, beautiful. Lateef seems eager here to take the next step musically by breaking the mold of his previous albums". (source: Wikipedia)

Song List:

Side One

Revelation 5:53

Apathy 5:20

Ev’ry Day I Fall In Love 6:55

Side Two

The Centaur And The Phoenix 5:33

Iqbal 4:48

Summer Song 5:22

The Philanthropist 3:56

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950.

Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also used a number of non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. Peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician "played world music before world music had a name."

Lateef wrote and published a number of books including two novellas entitled A Night in the Garden of Love and Another Avenue, the short story collections Spheres and Rain Shapes, also his autobiography, The Gentle Giant, written in collaboration with Herb Boyd. Along with his record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, a music publishing company. Lateef published his own work through Fana, which includes Yusef Lateef's Flute Book of the Blues and many of his own orchestral compositions. (source: Wikipedia)

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