Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef (1960) 320 kbps+CD Rip

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Title: The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: OJC[ OJCCD-759-2]
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 42:23
Total Size: 258 MB(+3%) | 100 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01 - Goin' Home
02 - I'm Just A Lucky So And So
03 - Quarantine
04 - From Within
05 - Salt Water Blues
06 - Lateef Minor 7th
07 - Adoration
08 - Ma-He's Makin' Eyes At Me
Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef (1960) 320 kbps+CD Rip

Personnel:

Yusef Lateef - Tenor Saxophone
Ron Carter - Cello
Hugh Lawson - Piano
Herman Wright - Bass
Lex Humphries - Drums

On The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, Riverside seems eager to present Yusef Lateef, technical virtuoso, on a series of songs that step closer to jazz tradition than any of his work in the recent past. Largely absent are Lateef's experiments with Eastern modes, rhythms, and instrumentation, and in their place is a collection of largely upbeat, accessible songs, with a balanced mix of standards and originals. Much of the introspective, personal quality of his previous albums seems lost in the effort, but Lateef's playing still remains stellar, especially on oboe. That instrument, which is by nature soft and muted, is given enough power by Lateef to lead on several songs, most beautifully on "Salt Water Blues," where its naturally melancholy sound seems perfectly matched with the low, rounded tones of Lateef's rhythm section, especially Ron Carter's bowed cello. The quintet also shines on the following track, Joe Zawinul's "Lateef Minor 7th," where they provide a gentle counterpoint to Lateef's sweet flute line. Not quite as expansive or daring as much of Lateef's other recordings, The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef still documents a fine musician at work during the peak of his career.~Stacia Proefrock