Here we got another great Impulse release, also from 1966. On this date, Yusef plays alto and tenor sax, flute, oboe and theremin. Please do yourself a favour and listen to this excellent jazz record. 320k rip of my original impluse LP here.
Friday, October 3, 2008
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link don't works. neighter yesterday nor today
yep i couldnt get it to work either unfortunately...
Sorry about that, here's a working link.
http://rapidshare.com/files/156010782/Yusef_Lateef_-_A_flat__G_flat_and_C.rar.html
thanks alot for posting it again... i appreciate it
Thanks for the re-post, I've been really looking forward to hearing this one.
Oh Man, you can't imagine how much I love this one. Thanks a ton
I love how I contributed this album to the Impulse! blog and then got blocked out of it. That was really cool. Maybe if one of the 400+ people who downloaded this via that blog sees this they could mention it to the people running it. Thanks.
That crisp, lively, state-of-the-art, post mid-century ABC media sound; the colorful c'est la vie of the artists on the Impulses jumped off the vinyl like holograms, even back then. This media A&R tech work of the sixties seemed (or WAS) customized for each artist, like personal portraits, so vivid they were animated to precisely accompany and complement each artist's own style. It was almost like watching ABC national TV on a record! :) Rudy Van Gelder had a distinct way of giving Impulse, Verve, and Blue Note, etc. recordings all their own sound, ever so subtly. Oft to mention the great gate-fold covers, liner notes, and superior artwork of the Impulses. Thanks for this: taking me back to an idyllic time in my life as a child growing up hearing Jazz played and performed in the sixties. SALUT!
Cosmic anecdote: I forgot to mention that producer Bob Thiele must have had carte-blanche resources at ABC-Impulse during the opulent 60's on all those dates, considering their consistent quality and formatting. You know I could swear I met him in a totally non-jazz related bar in Norfolk, Va. He must have been traveling incognito to neighboring Va. Beach, Va., or something like that, maybe is an explanation in hindsight. This was 20-25 years ago. It was thew weirdest thing late at night just before last bar call, kind of sudden, an other-worldly experience, so impromptu and spontaneous, just talking Jazz. But the tip-off as to who he was, looking back, was he mentioned a long, detailed, enthusiastic tirade about Coltrane and his group's greatness, as if he KNEW them. He seemed to feel romantic, reflective regret about the Jazz scene we were speaking of...as if he regretted that he left Impluse maybe? Tacitly though. AFTER I left, his face became recognizable to me even though I never asked him his name, and he never offered to mention it; hadn't aged much by then either. A really erudite, yet hip cat you don't see around much these days; had an air of real experience, even authority. He had real class and panache, dignified but hip. WOW! Thanks also to Leonard Goldenson too(RIP) Prez of ABC-Impulse for giving such rich attention to the variegated, even comprehensive Jazz label. Too bad for ABC that they let it go. Well, that's the nature of Wall Street, Madison Ave., and the corporate-ocracy of the last few decades, and these days. Enough pontificating. Thanks!
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