Yusef Lateef • 1984

 

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.
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Revisar
por Thom Jurek
El experimentalismo de Yusef Lateef llegó a la estratosfera en 1965 con el número de 1984. Con el bajista Reggie Workman, el pianista Mike Nock y el baterista James Black, desde la canción principal de ocho minutos que abre el álbum y la balada modal angular de dos minutos "Try Love", 1984 ciertamente parece estar tomando forma en un registro extraño. El título es una improvisación experimental que tiene a Lateef literalmente gimiendo como si estuviera de luto en todo momento, nada menos que indescifrable, y las cañas minimalistas de "Try Love" apenas insinúan una estructura melódica. Todo esto estaría perfectamente acorde con la época, por supuesto. Después de todo, Coltrane, Ornette y Cecil Taylor estaban destrozando las convenciones musicales occidentales como si fueran periódicos del pasado. Pero luego, con "Soul Sister", que presenta el tenor profundo y bluesero de Lateef soplando alrededor de una hermosa figura lírica, y el increíblemente hermoso solo de Mike Nock en "Love Waltz", todo el álbum se mueve en otra dirección, incluso si no está terriblemente enfocado. . El blues fuera de serie de "One Little Indian" (sí, ese), con su piano de feria y su saxofón soplando en los territorios microfónicos, lo envía a otro espacio por completo hasta que, al final, cuando hemos escuchado la hermosa flauta en su lectura de "La historia más grande jamás contada" y hemos vuelto a entrar en el complejo mundo melódico de Lateef, que podemos entender armónicamente dónde hemos estado, y no es un lugar familiar, aunque tiene algunas señales que reconocer. En definitiva, un esfuerzo complejo pero muy gratificante emocional y musicalmente por parte de un maestro.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/1984-mw0000509287

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Tracks:
1 - 1984 - 8:15
2 - Try Love - 2:14
3 - Soul Sister - 3:10
4 - Love Waltz - 4:28
5 - One Little Indian - 2:25
6 - Listen To The Wind - 6:13
7 - Warm Fire - 4:19
8 - Gee! Sam Gee - 5:20
9 - The Greatest Story Ever Told - 3:13


Credits:
    Bass – Reggie Workman
    Drums – James Black
    Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
    Piano – Mike Nock
    Producer – Bob Thiele
    Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Oboe – Yusef Lateef

Label:    Impulse! – AS-84
Country:    US
Released:    1965
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Post Bop, Free Improvisation, Modal
https://www.discogs.com/release/900440-Yusef-Lateef-1984

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