YUSEF LATEEF – Live at Ronnie Scotts (Official Japanese Edition) – LP – Limited 180g Vinyl

LABEL: Gearbox

CAT NO: RSGB1008OBI

BARCODE: 5060708610302

Tracklisting:

Side One
1.Angel Eyes (9:19)
2.Blues For The Orient (6:51)
3.Song Of Delilah (4:41)

Side Two
1.Last Night Blues (9:56)
2.Yusefs Mood (10:44)

YUSEF LATEEF Live at Ronnie Scotts
(Official Japanese Edition)

LP Limited Edition 180g Vinyl
(With Obi Strip)

This is a previously unreleased live club performance from Yusef Lateef, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist whose mixing of jazz and Eastern music was a great influence on some of the finest musicians of the era including John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.

Accompanied at Ronnie Scotts by the house band of pianist Stan Tracey, double bassist Rick Laird and drummer Bill Eyden, most of the repertoire played comes from Lateefs earlier recordings for Savoy and Prestige such as Jazz Moods and Eastern Sounds. Lateef plays flute on The Dreamer and Last Night Blues (it was the last night of the run). He plays the shenai a kind of oboe on Blues for The Orient, the xun a Chinese flute on Song of Delilah, and tenor saxophone on Yusefs Mood.

The evenings performance was recorded by Les Tomkins at the request of Ronnie Scott. The musicians were unaware they were being recorded as Scott believed they would be at their best and most unselfconscious this way. This record was mastered at Gearbox Records directly from the original 1/4 tapes.

Cut on Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, Westrex 3DIIA cutting head and Telefunken U73B tube limiter; Maselec master control and equalisation.

Personnel:
Yusef Lateef flute, shenai, xun, tenor saxophone
Stan Tracey piano
Rick Laird double bass
Bill Eyden drums