Yusef Lateef discography

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A discography of the multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef (1920–2013).

Discography[]

As Leader/Co-leader[]

Year recorded	Title	Label	Notes
1957	Jazz Mood	Savoy	Debut release from second recording session
1957	Jazz for the Thinker	Savoy
1957	Stable Mates	Savoy	Split album with A. K. Salim
1957	Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef	Verve
1957	Prayer to the East	Savoy
1957	Jazz and the Sounds of Nature	Savoy
1957	The Sounds of Yusef	Prestige
1957	Other Sounds	Prestige/New Jazz	Released 1959
1958	Lateef at Cranbrook	Argo	Live album
1959	The Dreamer	Savoy
1959	The Fabric of Jazz	Savoy
1959	Cry! – Tender	Prestige/New Jazz	Includes one track from 1957
1960	The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef	Riverside
1960	The Centaur and the Phoenix	Riverside
1961	Lost in Sound	Charlie Parker
1961	Eastern Sounds	Prestige/Moodsville
1961	Into Something	Prestige/New Jazz
1963	Jazz 'Round the World	Impulse!
1964	Live at Pep's	Impulse!	Live album
1965	1984	Impulse!
1965	Psychicemotus	Impulse!
1966	A Flat, G Flat and C	Impulse!
1966	The Golden Flute	Impulse!
1967	The Complete Yusef Lateef	Atlantic
1968	The Blue Yusef Lateef	Atlantic
1969	Yusef Lateef's Detroit	Atlantic	Includes one track from 1967
1969	The Diverse Yusef Lateef	Atlantic	Includes one track from 1968
1970	Suite 16	Atlantic
1971	The Gentle Giant	Atlantic	Includes two tracks from 1970
1972	Hush 'N' Thunder	Atlantic
1973	Part of the Search	Atlantic	Includes one track from 1971
1974	10 Years Hence	Atlantic	Live album with studio overdubs
1976	The Doctor is In... and Out	Atlantic
1977	Autophysiopsychic	CTI	With Art Farmer
1979	In a Temple Garden	CTI
1983	Yusef Lateef in Nigeria	Landmark
1983	Hikima - Creativity	Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies	Live album - limited edition
1987	Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony	Atlantic	Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
1988	Concerto for Yusef Lateef	Atlantic
1989	Nocturnes	Atlantic
1990	Meditations	Atlantic
1991	Yusef Lateef's Encounters	Atlantic
1992	Heart Vision	YAL
1992	Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp	YAL	With Archie Shepp
1992	Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman	YAL	With Von Freeman
1992	Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads	YAL
1993	Tenors featuring Rene McLean	YAL	With Rene McLean
1993	Woodwinds	YAL	With Ralph M. Jones III
1993	The African-American Epic Suite	ACT
1993	Metamorphosis	YAL
1993	Claiming Open Spaces	YAL	Soundtrack
1994	Suite Life	YAL
1994	Tenors of Yusef Lateef & Ricky Ford	YAL	With Ricky Ford
1994	Cantata	YAL
1995	The World at Peace	YAL/Meta	Live album with Adam Rudolph
1996	Yusef Lateef's Fantasia for Flute	YAL
1996	Full Circle	YAL
1997	Sonata Fantasia	YAL	With Alex J. Marcelo
1997	CHNOPS: Gold & Soul	YAL
1997	Earth and Sky	YAL	With Sayyd A. Al-Khabyyr
1998	9 Bagatelles	YAL
1998	Like the Dust	YAL
1999	Live in Seattle	YAL	With Adam Rudolph
1999	A Goodness Inwardness Forgiving Tolerance	YAL	With Adam Rudolph
2000	Beyond the Sky	YAL/Meta	With Adam Rudolph
2001	Live at the Luckman Theater	YAL	With Eternal Wind
2001	Earriptus	YAL
2001	So Peace	YAL
2002	A Tribute Concert for Yusef Lateef	YAL	Live album
2002	Homage to Yusef Lateef	YAL	Live album with Corvini-Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble
2003	In the Garden	YAL	With Adam Rudolph and Go: Organic Orchestra
2004	Roots Run Deep	RogueArt	With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto - released 2012
2005	Influence	B-Flat/Discograph	With Stéphane Belmondo and Lionel Belmondo
2008	Voice Prints	Meta	With Roscoe Mitchell, Adam Rudolph and Douglas R. Ewart - released 2012
2009	Towards the Unknown	Meta	With Adam Rudolph - released 2010
2012	Live At The Olympia	Meta	With Ahmad Jamal - released 2014[1]

As sideman[]

With Cannonball Adderley

• The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1962)
• Cannonball in Europe! (Capitol, 1962)
• Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1962)
• Autumn Leaves (Riverside, 1963)
• Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1963)
• The Sextet (Milestone, 1962-63 [1982])

With Nat Adderley

• That's Right! (Riverside, 1960)

With Ernestine Anderson

• My Kinda Swing (Mercury, 1960)

With Art Blakey

• The African Beat (Blue Note, 1962)

With Donald Byrd

• Byrd Jazz (Transition, 1955), aka First Flight (Delmark)

With Paul Chambers

• 1st Bassman (Vee Jay, 1961)

With Art Farmer

• Something You Got (CTI, 1977)

With Curtis Fuller

• Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)
• Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick, 1960)

With Dizzy Gillespie

• The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–1949 [1995])

With Grant Green

• Grantstand (Blue Note, 1961)

With Slide Hampton

• Drum Suite (Epic, 1962)

With Louis Hayes

• Louis Hayes (Vee-Jay, 1960); re-issued as Contemplation under Lateef's name

With Les McCann

• Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1972)

With Don McLean

• Homeless Brother (1973)

With Charles Mingus

• Pre-Bird (Mercury, 1960; reissued as Mingus Revisited on Limelight)

With Sonny Red

• Breezing (Jazzland, 1960)

With Leon Redbone

• Double Time (Warner Bros., 1976)

With A. K. Salim

• Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (Prestige, 1965)

With Clark Terry

• Color Changes (Candid, 1960)

With Doug Watkins

• Soulnik (New Jazz, 1960)

With Randy Weston

• Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)

With Various Artists

• Jazz Is Busting Out All Over (Savoy 1957)

References[]

External links[]

• Yusef Lateef's's discography