The Yusef Lateef Quintet
The Sounds of Yusef
Yusef Lateef walks into Rudy Van Gelder's studio with a vision that won't have a proper name for another two decades. What to call music that swings hard as any bebop session but incorporates sounds from beyond the American jazz tradition? "Ethnic materials," they'd say awkwardly. "World music," they'd say later. Lateef just called it music - his music - and got to work. Sounds of Yusef, recorded for Prestige, captures Lateef at a pivotal moment. This is before the radical experiments of the 196…