YUSEF LATEEF The Blue Yusef Lateef 1968 Rare WLP PROMO MONO Eastern Jazz EX LP

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Many rare vintage JAZZ LPs in Phase 2 of my Spring/Summer series.
Bop, Soul-Jazz, Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant Garde, Jazz Funk, Spiritual Jazz, Fusion and more
All in SUPERB Condition; most with EX+ to NM+ Vinyl
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a large amount of PROMO LPs.
Many, many others still in SHRINK WRAP. Several STILL SEALED.
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL, Masterdisk and Audiophile import pressings in the mix!
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Most of these from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
also a number of rarities (a few signed) from the AUSTIN WELLS* Estate collection.
*Austin Wells was a well-known west coast soul-jazz player who had many LPs autographed by the artist.
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Following Soon:
Phase 3 with More vintage and classic SOUL, GOSPEL, R&B, BLUES, JAZZ and JAZZ SINGER LPs
...then Phase 4 to follow, with a large collection of REGGAE and INTERNATIONAL (Afrobeat, Latin, Caribbean, Brazilian, etc.)
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This auction is for:
YUSEF LATEEF
THE BLUE YUSEF LATEEF
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.ATLANTIC Records 1508
Original 1968 PROMO issue • MONO LP
White Label Promo: ONLY Mono issue

VINYL is VG+/EX
Extremely clean high gloss vinyl has a very few faint sleeve marks only that are inaudible: EX to EX+. Side 2 has a few very light, mostly inaudible surface hairlines, viewed under hard bright light - a high VG+, plays EX to NM. White labels with red text, printed "SAMPLE COPY NOT FOR SALE" are pristine both sides.
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COVER is VG+
Extremely clean, bright, vivid front has very light shelfwear; promo sticker. Back cover has moderate wear, mostly around edges. No creases, soil, writing or other marks. Seams and spine 100% intact with no splits. All edges straight, all corners sharp.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Rare PROMO only MONO issue.
?ALL commercially issued copies were in Stereo.
...by 1968 Atlantic had all but phased-out all MONO pressings.
ONLY the PROMO issue for RADIO was pressd in MONO mix.

"d/j copy monaural PROMOTIONAL NOT FOR SALE" sticker
issued in standard issue STEREO "SD 1508" cover
"1508" catalog # only (no "SD") on labels.

Very FIRST run with RED INK text on WHITE PROMO labels.
(A-12832-MO) // (A-12833MO) mastering numbers on labels at bottom.
MO=Monarch Recorders • TOP west coast 1960s mastering/pressing plant
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MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: A-12832 - AA
?Side Two: A-12833 - AA
Circled "MR" glyph also in trail-off wax both sides
...for MONARCH pressing.

BEAUTIFUL COVER ILLUSTRATION BY STANISLAW ZAGORSKI

Original ATLANTIC RECORDS company inner sleeve included?.?

Exceptionally bold, bright MONO mixes differ quite a bit from usual stereo
VERY few of these were pressed. The only way to get the original Mono mixes!

Disc kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl.
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve.
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"With a band that included Detroit jazz gods Roy Brooks on drums and Kenny Burrell on guitar, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Hugh Lawson on piano, Sonny Red on alto, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass, and a very young Cecil McBee on acoustic bass, you get the idea on THE BLUE YUSEF LATEEF that he was after something different. Lateef performs on not only his tenor and flute, but bamboo and pneumatic flutes, tamboura, koto, and others; Lateef was exploring the outer reaches of the blues as they might appear and appeal to Eastern as well as Western cultures.

"From the opening moments in "Juba Juba," everything comes in one package -- the slow, snaky groove only the blues can provide, with the Eastern scale modalities and polyphony attached via Lateef's flute and Brook's percussion. But before becoming too ethereal, Mitchell chimes in with a muted trumpet and Buddy Lucas wails on harmonica. There is also a female gospel chorus [The Sweet Inspirations] humming in the background -- reminiscent of the Staples at their spookiest. Next up is the even-more Eastern-tinged "Like It Is," sounding like it was left off "Blues from the Orient". Lawson's minor key explorations and Brooks' spontaneous actions with a variety of percussion instruments usher in a groove that only Lateef could create. It is very slow, harmonically complex, and lush in a manner that suggests exotica sans the corniness of Les Baxter. It quietly roars with a melodic polytonality courtesy of Lateef's tenor, joined by Lawson's striking mode changes in his solo. Then comes the barrelhouse romp of "Othelia," the Japanese psychedelia of "Moon Cup" and the samba-fied bluesiana of "Back Home," citing Afro-Cuban pop Machito arrangements inside a Brazilian carnival-chant created of vocal overtones and greasy rhythms.

"You get the picture. The Blue Yusef Lateef is one wild album. In sound, it is the very best the '60s had to offer in terms of experimentation and accessibility. This is blues you can dance to, but also meditate to and marvel at; a pearl worthy of the price."
 ~Thom Jurek, AllMusic REVIEW

Yusef Lateef  grew up in Detroit and began on tenor when he was 17. He'd long had an inquisitive spirit and was never just a bop or hard bop soloist. Lateef consistently created music that stretched (and even broke through) boundaries. A superior tenor saxophonist with a soulful sound and impressive technique, by the 1950s Lateef was also one of the top flutists around. He also developed into the best jazz soloist to date on oboe, was an occasional bassoonist, and introduced such instruments as the argol (a double clarinet that resembles a bassoon), shanai (a type of Indian/Arabic oboe), and different types of flutes. Lateef played "world music" before it had a name and his output was much more creative than much of the pop and folk music that passed under that label in the '90s.

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