The Diverse Yusef Lateef Explained

The Diverse Yusef Lateef
Type:	album
Artist:	Yusef Lateef
Cover:	The Diverse Yusef Lateef.jpg
Released:	January 15, 1970
Recorded:	April 1968 – May 1969
Genre:	Jazz fusion World fusion music
Length:	27:49
Label:	Atlantic
Producer:	Joel Dorn
Prev Title:	Yusef Lateef's Detroit
Prev Year:	1969
Next Title:	Suite 16
Next Year:	1970

The Diverse Yusef Lateef is a jazz album by saxophonist Yusef Lateef released in 1970. In it are mixed influences from rhythm and blues and soul music (particularly on "Live Humble") and world music (notably on "A Long Time Ago" or "Chandra").

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as indicated.

1. "Live Humble" – 6:48
2. "A Long Time Ago" – 6:37
3. "Eboness" (Roy Brooks) – 4:44
4. "Chandra" – 9:37

Personnel

• Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, track 1 - flute, 2-4 - bamboo flute, Chinese globular flute, Chinese Buddhist flute, kulintang, -track 2 Chinese cymbals, tambura, string arrangement
• Richard Tee – piano - track 1
• Chuck Rainey – Fender bass
• Cecil McBee – acoustic bass
• Ray Baretto – congas - track 1
• Bernard Purdie – drums, timbales
• Hugh Lawson – piano, 3 and 4 Indian bells - track 2
• Roy Brooks – drums, shofar, Chinese gong, large conga drum
• Selwart Clarke, Jesse Tryon, Alfred Brown, Kermit Moore – string quartet - track 4
• The Sweet Inspirations – vocal backgrounds - tracks 1 and 2
• Joel Dorn – producer