Yusef Lateef-1984-1965 IMPULSE Stereo 1st Press LP-NEAR MINT-RVG-Deep Groove-NR

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Yusef Lateef

1984 - LP

Impulse A-84 - stereo 

1965 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP, by Jazz virtuoso, Yusef Lateef. Lateef is best-known today as a Jazz flautist, but he was in fact a muscular tenor sax player and multi-instrumentalist. On this LP he plays flute, percussion, oboe, tenor saxophone, tambourine, chinese flutes, and bamboo flute. Copy at hand is an original first press Impulse stereo LP with a beautiful disc! LP was recorded by the great Rudy Van Gelder of Blue Note fame. 

Track listing:

(All tracks written by Yusef Lateef, except where noted.)

1.        "1984"          8:16

2.        "Try Love"    2:13

3.        "Soul Sister" (Ted Harris, Jr.)       3:05

4.        "Love Waltz" (Mike Nock)           4:30

5.        "One Little Indian" 2:37

6.        "Listen to the Wind"         6:12

7.        "Warm Fire" (Duke Ellington)     4:21

8.        "Gee Sam Gee"       5:21

9.        "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (Alfred Newman) 

AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

"Yusef Lateef's experimentalism hit the stratosphere in 1965 with the issue of 1984. With bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Mike Nock, and drummer James Black, from the eight-minute title track that opens the album and the two-minute, angular modal ballad "Try Love," 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 -- indecipherably no less -- and "Try Love"'s minimalist reeds barely hint at a melodic structure. All of this would be perfectly in keeping with the time, of course. After all, Coltrane, Ornette, and Cecil Taylor were tearing up Western musical conventions as if they were yesterday's newspapers. 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. The off-kilter, blues rip on "One Little Indian" (yes, that one), with its carny piano and out saxophone blowing into the microphonic territories, sends it off into another space entirely until, at the end, when we've heard the lovely flute on his read of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and have reentered the complex melodic world of Lateef, that we can understand where we've been harmonically, and it isn't somewhere familiar, though it has some signposts we recognize. In all, a complex yet very emotionally and musically rewarding effort by a master."

Glossy gatefold cover has a nice clean surface, but the 2 left corners at top & bottom both show creasing/denting. Cover grade is VG+.

Disc (heavy vinyl with 'deep groove', 'van gelder' is stamped in dead wax) is clean, glossy and grades a solid Near Mint. Vinyl plays clean with virtually no surface noise and rich, clear sound!

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