Yusef Lateef

2023 press.
Deep, strange and miles ahead of its time. Yusef Lateef pulling jazz apart and stitching it back together with Eastern modes, odd rhythms and a proper sense of curiosity. It swings but it also drifts, questions itself, goes somewhere unexpected and stays there. Not polite background jazz at all. This is jazz thinking out loud. Proper head music. Class. FFO Yusef Lateef later work, Pharoah Sanders early, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra exploratory bits, Alice Coltrane spiritual side, Don Cherry