Credits:

Yusef Lateef

Description:

Though there is some confusion about what happened to the 32 Jazz label, producer Joel Dorns other project, his label M, is following closely in its footsteps; unique packaging and a wealth of fine material licensed from Dorns years as a jazz producer at Atlantic Records seems its sole M.O. On The Blue Yusef Lateef, listeners get a fascinating chapter from the late 60s, an amazing period when everything in the world of jazz was changing. Lateef was big on concept recordings. He and Dorn did no less than ten during their tenure together at Atlantic. This one examines, in a painterly way, all the different ranges of emotion contained within the blues genre. With a band that included Detroit jazz gods Roy Brooks on drums and Kenny Burrell on guitar, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Hugh Lawson on piano, Sonny Red on alto, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass, and a very young Cecil McBee on acoustic bass, you g