YUSEF LATEEF 1984 IMPULSE STEREO VAN GELDER FROM 1963

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  YUSEF LATEEF 1984 IMPULSE STEREO VAN GELDER FROM 1963


A MINT MINUS ORIGINAL LP ON IMPULSE AS-84 (LABEL) A-84 (COVER)

FROM 1963 IN STEREO WITH ORANGE AND BLACK LABEL AND WITH A PRODUCT OF ABC PARAMOUNT RECORDS INC PRINTED IN USA ON BOTTOM OF LABEL AND WITH GATEFOLD COVER

PRODUCED BY BOB THIELE AND RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER WITH VAN GELDER IMPRESSED IN THE DEAD WAX

WITH THE ORIGINAL ABC PARAMOUNT BLACK AND WHITE THUMBNAIL INNER SLEEVE AS SHOWN

WITH MIKE NOCK ON PIANO, REGGIE WORKMAN ON BASS, JAMES BLACK ON DRUMS AND YUSEF LATEEF

9 TRACKS INCLUDE 1984, TRY LOVE, SOUL SISTER, LOVE WALTZ, ONE LITTLE INDIAN, LISTEN TO THE WIND, WARM FIRE, GEE! SAM GEE, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

THE LACQUERED GLOSSY GATEFOLD COVER STOCK WITH LIGHT RUB WEAR. INSIDE WHITE GATEFOLD WITH LIGHT RUB WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION AND WITH CENTER SPLIT IN THE SEAM INSIDE. CORNERS WITH ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE SIDE ONE. SIDE TWO SPINDLE HOLE WITH A FAINT AND LIGHT RUB MARK. THE UNUSUALLY PRISTINE VINYL BLANK WITH HIGH LUSTER APPEARS TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS FROM THE PAPER SLEEVE MAY BE SEEN.

PLEASE NOTE THE VINYL DESCRIPTION IS ONLY A VISUAL INSPECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Thom Jurek
Yusef Lateef's experimentalism hit the stratosphere in 1965 with the issue of 1984. With bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Mike Nock, and drummer James Black, from the eight-minute title track that opens the album and the two-minute, angular modal ballad "Try Love," 1984 certainly seems to be shaping up into one weird record. The title is an experimental, noodling improv that has Lateef literally moaning as if in mourning throughout -- indecipherably no less -- and "Try Love"'s minimalist reeds barely hint at a melodic structure. All of this would be perfectly in keeping with the time, of course. After all, Coltrane, Ornette, and Cecil Taylor were tearing up Western musical conventions as if they were yesterday's newspapers. But then with "Soul Sister," featuring Lateef's deep, bluesy, tenor blowing around a gorgeous lyric figure, and Mike Nock's stunningly beautiful soloing on "Love Waltz," the entire album moves in another direction, even if it isn't terribly focused. The off-kilter, blues rip on "One Little Indian" (yes, that one), with its carny piano and out saxophone blowing into the microphonic territories, sends it off into another space entirely until, at the end, when we've heard the lovely flute on his read of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and have reentered the complex melodic world of Lateef, that we can understand where we've been harmonically, and it isn't somewhere familiar, though it has some signposts we recognize. In all, a complex yet very emotionally and musically rewarding effort by a master.

AND, LASTLY, PLEASE DO REMEMBER SOUND QUALITY IS AFFECTED BY WHAT THE VINYL IS PLAYED ON! IF YOUR STEREO SYSTEM HAS BEEN CAREFULLY CHOSEN AND ASSEMBLED FOR IT'S AURAL QUALITIES AND YOU PERFORM BASIC MAINTENANCE LIKE CLEANING YOUR VINYL, CLEANING THE NEEDLE AFTER EACH PLAY, AND REPLACING THE CARTRIDGE WHEN NEEDED, YOUR LPS SHOULD SOUND QUITE GOOD.

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