Jazz for aficionados

According to Wikipedia;


Yusef lateef, 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.


He is one of my very favorite musicians, and I'm going to share some of my favorite cuts with you;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE65pr0JoHA


You wont find a bad cut on "Yusef Lateef, Live at Peps", plus he plays more different kind of flutes than I knew existed.


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVS6coChvI


I've got more versions of "Delilah" than you can shake a stick at; I believe "Delilah's" are born, not made; she really rocked Sampsons world.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDVy2B0prgo


Read the magic words someone added to Delilah;


"At dusk, when all is still, I will sing Delilah's song. I will sing it to the evening wind. I will sing it to the rolling hills and rushing streams. With unfathomable passion and joyous spirit I will sing Delilah's song. I will sing of her soft brown eyes and raven hair, her dark ebony skin and velvet lips. I will sing of her long sensual kisses and the fire she invokes deep in my heart. I will sing Delilah's song until we are united once again" Yusef magic


Today I am celebrating "Yusef Lateef"

"The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation and discrimination."  Norman Granz, founder of Verve records

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/norman-granz-the-man-who-made-jazz-black-and-white/

Alex, you did it again, you hit the ball out of the park; that JATP article was most informative, I certainly didn't know all that about the JATP. Keep up the good work.