Jazz On The Beach 93
Yusef Lateef, Cornell Dupree
A few weeks ago I played Russell and Elliott by the saxophonist and flautist Yusef Lateef from Yusef Lateef’s Detroit (Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83°), a bluesy and soulful homage to his home city produced by his longtime Atlantic Records producer Joel Dorn in 1969, and recently reissued on Gilles Peterson’s Arc label. Seven years later Lateef and Dorn recorded The Doctor is In... and Out which captured the spirit of his late ‘50s and ‘60s Eastern musical themes in a the sophisticated funk setting of the time. One of the highlights of this week’s Jazz On The Beach playlist is the Kenny Barron composed and arranged Mystique, one of my favourite tracks from the album. If you want to hear this on vinyl, and you should if you possibly can, there’s an excellent reissue available from Pure Pleasure Records that has been beautifully re-mastered by my former Sony colleague Ray Staff at AIR Studios.
We also played guitar player Cornell Dupree’s Teasin’, a song that was originally recorded by his former bandleader King Curtis in 1970 (with Eric Clapton on guitar) at Muscle Shoals for the Get Ready album. That was pretty good, but Cornell’s version is something else, as is the whole of his Teasin’ album released by Atlantic in 1974 and featuring fellow session heavyweights pianist Richard Tee, bassist Chuck Rainey and drummer Bernard Purdie and horn players David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Seldon Powell and Jon Faddis. Every guitar player I knew back then would wear this album out trying to get closer to Dupree’s incredible feel and groove on Blue Nocturne (also written by King Curtis), Ray Charles’ What Would I Do Without You?, Dupree’s own Plain Ol’ Blues and perhaps the definitive version of Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown’s Okie Dokie Stomp.
Also….new music on this week’s show includes a terrific live version of Nubya Garcia’s Source recorded at New York's Radio City Music Hall (Dead Oceans), percussionist Yahael Camara Onono’s Mandé jazz ensemble Balimaya Project with the haunting Suley’s Ablution (New Soil) and Seattle’s High Pulp with guest guitarist Jeff Parker on the adventurous Unified Dakotas (Anti-).
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