YUSEF LATEEF – Eastern Sounds (WaxTime Reissue) – LP – 180g Vinyl

LP – 180 Gram Black Vinyl Reissue

One of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateefs most enduring recordings, Eastern Sounds was one of the last recordings made by the band that Lateef shared with pianist Barry Harris after the band moved to New York from Detroit, where the jazz scene was already dying. Lateef had long been interested in Eastern music, long before John Coltrane had ever shown any public interest anyway, so this Moodsville session was drenched in Lateefs current explorations of Eastern mode and interval, as well as tonal and polytonal improvisation. The themes set up the deep blues and wondrous ballad extrapolations Lateef was working on, which add such depth and dimension to the Eastern-flavored music that it is hard to imagine them coming from the same band. Awesome. (Thom Jurek)

Tracklist:

A1 The Plum Blossom
A2 Blues For The Orient
A3 Chinq Miau
A4 Don’t Blame Me
A5 You’ve Changed

B1 Love Theme From Spartacus
B2 Snafu
B3 Purple Flower
B4 Love Theme From The Robe
B5 The Three Faces Of Balal