The Blue Yusef Lateef (180g) (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk Alternative

The Blue Yusef Lateef (180g) (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk AlternativeOn The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968), listeners get an amazing chapter from the late '60s, an amazing period when everything in the world of Jazz was changing. Lateef was big on concept recordings. This album examines 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

even today

which the band has studied

their songs at times verging on the anthemic or celebrative

The inclusion of the hit song and good airplay helped the album make no

He also ran music sessions for Cy

where the collective fled to escape from the political unrest of their native Mali

tuning in to one another

many feel that it captures the spirit of social and political upheaval that characterised the 1960s

her rhymes span from the explicitly audacious to the tenderly relatable

This split release features a Fleetwood Mac recording and the star studded rendition from that night that is previously unreleased

Their self-titled debut studio album

No one could have predicted that Buena Vista Social Club would become a worldwide phenomenon