WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 01/03/14

Listener comments!

8:52am Gary:

Snow day, huddling between the headphones

8:54am Doug Schulkind:

I'll be tossing LPs on the fire. Huddle close, Gary.

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8:58am listener james from westwood:

here's a crate of seals & crofts. we'll be toasty warm in no time.
good friday, doug and all!! it's a pretty snow day in northern nj and all i've got to do is proofread, edit, and listen to WFMU!

9:00am Doug Schulkind:

Maybe just Seals. I kinda like Crofts. Morning Listener James!

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9:02am listener james from westwood:

we shall croft an exception, then!

9:02am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

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9:03am listener james from westwood:

man, mention of fire and seeing this snow makes me want to move my bucket-list item of renting a cabin or other dwelling somewhere up north with a fireplace up to slot #1.

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

We're still in the single digits here in Iceburgh. How about your necks of the wood?

Morning ndbob!

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9:04am listener james from westwood:

since i awoke, we've moved up 1 massive degree to 8!

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9:04am Brian in UK:

Hello folks. I will get Greenpeas onto to you james and mushypeas too. Having a whale of a time here.

9:05am glenn:

seals and crofts are pretty oily. they'd burn very hot, for a brief period of time. wait, that was their musical career.

9:05am Doug Schulkind:

Handsome hellos to you, Brian in UK!

9:07am glenn:

it's -25 celsius here, with windchill. take that, suckahs.

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9:07am duke:

Good morning Drummers. It's 0 degrees here in the great frozen upstate NY. Play some hot tunes to keep us warm.

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9:07am listener james from westwood:

that is a wonderfully adorned album cover. much strength to you today during our review of his musical life.

9:09am Doug Schulkind:

Toasty greetings to you glenn and you duke!

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

You can read the story of when I got the autograph adorning this page, here: blog.wfmu.org...

9:11am Uncle Michael:

Greetings, Drumlings.

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9:11am duke:

It's actually 255.372 degrees kelvin here. Makes it sound warmer

9:12am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy to you, Uncle Michael and you too, Kelvin.

9:13am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef is not on lead sax here. He is in the chorus.

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9:13am Brian in UK:

@duke I'll pass that on to kelvin when he rings up. Any other messages?

9:13am lucy in brooklyn:

hello from snowy bkln - L and T

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9:14am Brian in UK:

Yusef has brought the sun out over here. Good work.

9:18am ndbob:

It feels more like North Dakota here then southern Indiana

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

Hi Lucy and T!

9:21am Hugo:

Pulled this one out of the record stacks the other day:

www.discogs.com...

(without the coffee stains)

And good afternoon to you all and all the best for the new year!

9:22am Doug Schulkind:

We will be hearing two selections from that collection. Hugo. Among my all-time favorite Yusef recordings. (And that is saying a lot.)

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9:23am bobdc:

Morning Doug--can you tell us any more than "Victor 1949" about the album with this excellent version of Woody 'n You?

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9:23am listener james from westwood:

brian, i think we're getting a glimmer of sun, or at least thinner clouds, here, too!

9:25am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef does take a tenor sax solo here!

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9:35am Brian in UK:

Idris Mohammed was Bill Evans too. So was Bill Evans, Bill Evans.

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9:39am duke:

This guy is also Bill Evans en.wikipedia.org...

9:42am Doug Schulkind:

@bobdc
The matrix number for that Victor disc is Victor 20-3186.

9:42am northguineahills:

awesome tribute, Doug!

9:43am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy NGH!

9:47am Doug Schulkind:

Twenty years later and Yusef is still performing with African drums...

9:49am Hugo:

@Doug: I'm planning to put on the blog three Lateef concerts on three consecutive nights in Europe in October 1971 with this line-up:

Yusef Lateef - tenor sax, flute, oboe
Kenny Barron - piano
Bob Cunningham - bass
Albert 'Tootie' Heath - drums

Sounds interesting, no?

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9:49am Brian in UK:

Nigeria through Burundi & onwards

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

..except this one was recorded in Africa. In Zaria, Nigeria.

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

Sounds great, Hugo!! A little later, i will be playing something from that quartet live at Montreux in 1970.

9:51am Gary:

This is an awesome track

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9:51am Brian in UK:

@Hugo ever been to Montreux?

9:54am still b/p:

A minus 2 good morning.
Temperature in the bedroom reads 45. I had the thermometer at floor level in there yesterday out of curiosity and it said 40. Got bundled in the big-guns sort of cold protection layers to walk somewhere last evening when it was minus 4. I was HOT within minutes. For a longer walk today, what, just a smoking jacket and earmuffs?

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9:58am listener james from westwood:

i'm exceptionally lucky. my windows suck (single-pane casement), but i am on the 2nd floor of a 3-floor building occupied mostly by seniors who crank their heat starting in october. consequently it's 68 in here and i'm not paying for the platinum coke spoon for the CEO of the local power combine.

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10:00am duke:

We lost power for about 8 hours last night. Ran the generator to power important stuff: heat, internet so I could listen to Sinner's Crossroads

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10:00am Artie:

Ahhhh.

10:02am Hugo:

@Brian: Yes, in 2000, I think, but unfortunately not during the jazz festival. As this was in summer, we went all the way up to the St. Bernhard pass from where you can cross over into italy. Had a lunch meal, went to look at the dogs and brought with me a couple of souvenir bottles of strong stuff, which, would you believe, are still unopened!

10:03am Doug Schulkind:

still b/p and Artie, grab a blanket and a dive in!

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10:03am Brian in UK:

@still b/p bet the old chap went south, what-ho.

10:03am northguineahills:

(adds platinum coke spoon to my bucket wish list.)

10:03am Stanley:

Happy New Year everyone
(Listening quietly at the back)

10:04am Doug Schulkind:

Couldn't hear you over the hissing radiator. What'd you say, Stanley?

10:06am Doug Schulkind:

Bassist Ernie Farrow is playing here a rabat or, sometimes called a rebob.

10:06am Mark:

Tuning in late, thanks so much for the Lateef program Doug...

10:06am marcury:

Happy Snow day all! Oh and New Year too!

10:07am marcury:

Bob again?

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

Mark, meet marcury. On your marks!

10:09am marcury:

Get set...

DOH!

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10:09am Brian in UK:

Hugo, funnily enough, I have a lovely Bill Evans trio with Gomez & DeJohnette from 1968 at Montreux.

10:09am Mark:

This South American shit is the only soundtrack for 8 inches of snow and 10 degrees.

10:10am earrie:

I'm glad you took the time to put this show together, Doug.
Good morning.

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10:10am Brian in UK:

Doh, a deer. Montreux it all connects.

10:11am Doug Schulkind:

So glad you're glad, earrie!

10:11am Uncle Michael:

Don't tell Jelly Roll that there's anything wrong with calling it jass.

10:11am Mark:

I'm a different Mark than the other Mark btw.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

A little later in the show, I will play Yusef's "I Be Cold." One of my all-time all-time favorites. It will sound extra extra wonderful today.

I figured that Mark. Besides, you don't look markish.

10:15am Doug Schulkind:

You can hear the influence on Yusef of Dizzy Gillespie's forays intro Afro-Cuban sounds big-time in this number.

10:21am ndbob:

Just walked out to get my mail from yesterday - about a one block walk - this would be considered a nice winter day in North Dakota even though it's two degrees - sunny and no wind

10:22am Doug Schulkind:

You traded up in the weather department, ndbob!

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10:22am listener james from westwood:

it's all relative. we're creeping toward double digits at 9 right now in bergen county. average that out w/ the near-70-degree december day we had last year.

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Folks, you might want to have a defibrillator handy to get you through the oboe solo coming up next...

10:25am Jeff Golick:

To Bro Doug and all other bros (& bras?):

Just quickly popping in to say that the snow day for NYC schools has rendered my listening choices quite moot this fine morning.

Looking forward to enjoying this one via the magic of the archive.

10:26am Hugo:

@Brian: You can purchase a box of Miles Davis concerts in Montreux. Yusef Lateef played at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival and I have a download of excerpts of concerts once shown on tv here. He's in there somewhere.

10:27am earrie:

'Happyology'. This course is currently an independent study course. Consider the following: what makes people everywhere happy? What makes ___ happy? What makes you happy?

10:28am earrie:

(Imagining some imaginary course listing.)

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10:32am Brian in UK:

@earrie I just took the 'smile' module.

10:33am kat330:

A big hello, Doug, and drummersomes! Had chores to complete earlier, but now the last is done in filling our bird feeders for the dear feathered ones!

10:33am ndbob:

@Doug yep - though Monday and Tuesday will be bad even by ND standards - could hit minus 15 here - the difference is that by next weekend - and hopefully for the next couple weeks - highs in the 40s - Jamestown was minus 28 the other day

10:34am kat330:

And now this fine Lateef, oboe being one of my favorite instruments.

10:34am ndbob:

I'm really looking forward the the premiere of the Bodega Pop show - on my birthday no less!

10:34am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Your mayor's doing a helluva job! At least he's got the NY Public School children's vote.

@kat330
Big hello back atcha.

10:35am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
Fingers X'd! We're aiming for 1/15, 7-10pm.

10:36am ndbob:

Yep:) already have the show page bookmarked

10:36am ndbob:

Heya kat!

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

Friends, this is what ndbob is referring to: bodegapop.blogspot.com...

10:37am kat330:

Howdy, Bob! We only got a dusting of snow down here. How about bayou?

10:37am Richard from Venezuela:

Happy new year to Doug and all the listeners. Nice to listen this special live.

10:38am Doug Schulkind:

RICHARD FROM VENEZUELA! How've you been?!

10:40am kat330:

Oh, this sound is so sweet -- charming.

10:40am Richard from Venezuela:

@Doug: Great. Ready for another year of great finds in music.

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

This Cannonball Adderley set is live at the Village Vanguard in NYC.

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10:41am listener james from westwood:

my dad was careful to fill all the bird feeders last night before the storm. he figured they'd need it come this saturday when the temps break zero.
wonderful, wonderful show at the halfway mark. go doug go!

10:41am ndbob:

@kat about two inches - the problem is, that while the path to the parking lot here has been cleared off, the sidewalk to the mailbox - a bit of a walk - is iced over - there's enough crunchy snow behind the cars to go there though

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

Cannonball -alto
Nat Adderley - trumpet
Joe Zawinul - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Louis Hayes - drums

Yusef Lateef - oboe (and tenor and flute)

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

As with Syn-Athesia, this Mopp Shoe Blues is a Lateef composition.

10:44am marcury:

Bodega Pop looks like a winner

10:44am glenn:

a cute nature story. www.thestar.com...

10:46am kat330:

@James: Yes, well we still had one more than half full overnight, but the big kahuna -- four silos glommed together with many perches -- was empty. Normally Philo does it because I can't reach without a step ladder, but he forgot it last night and this morning. Yes, we will have very cold temps on Monday here.

10:47am Doug Schulkind:

Bodega Pop's daddy, Gary Sullivan, will probably be doing a test show on the Drummer Stream sometime this weekend. Keep listening and hear history!

10:50am mr c:

Great album! Joel Dorn production..Happy New Year Doug!

10:50am earrie:

@glenn Sometimes more curious than skittish?
Ice Fishermen Hand-Feed a Wild Fox -- youtu.be...

10:52am Doug Schulkind:

Warm greetings to you, mr. c! The Joel Dorn/Yusef Lateef partnership produced many miracles.

10:52am Doug Schulkind:

Next up... one of THE heaviest.

10:52am kat330:

Here's a rather tame fox! www.youtube.com...

10:54am glenn:

i'm a big fan of the fox.

10:54am Mark:

When my friend was just starting to play drums, he'd been in his band for about a month, he wasn't very good yet, and they got a gig playing a PRISON! They're doing the gig, playing along, and an inmate stands up and yells, "Give the drummer some!" So what choice did he have? He did, as he put it, his best "kick the drum set down the stairs" drum solo, and that was a wrap! (The name of your show always reminds me of this story.) GREAT GREAT show today, and very classy to pay tribute to the very under-exposed Yusef Lateef.

10:55am Doug Schulkind:

@Mark
I have long contemplated doing a show of all music recorded in prison! Thanks for the nudge.

10:56am Parq:

Just signing in now, but caught most of the first hour at home. One more hour to go, and looking very much forward to it. Hope you are coping successfully with your interconnect glitches.

10:57am Mark:

Well, there's Johnny Cash, of course. I think B.B. King maybe did one. Who else?

10:57am mr c:

The Escorts Live at the Rahway State Prison...

10:58am ndbob:

ty Glenn and kat - reminds me of a story - in the summer i go back to Baltimore and stay with a freind of my mom's... it's an old suburban neighborhood, with a large number of Ultra Orthodox Jews.. one Shabat I was driving pasta group walking to Shul, and right next to them a fox was strolling by - pretty odd

10:58am glenn:

there's a quebecois movie called le party, about a band playing in a prison, and ensuing lowjinks. it's pretty good.
www.imdb.com...

10:59am Parq:

John Lee Hooker released a set performed at Soledad. My then-teenage sister bought it for me purely on the strength of its having been recorded at a prison.

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

@mr c
"Oh please oh please oh please, just gimme one more chance." !!! (One of the few recordings my in prison...by prisoners.)

11:05am Doug Schulkind:

One of the greatest ever drummers, the New Orleans genius James Black, is on this track. Laying down the baddest groove ever laid down. Ever. Ever. Ever.

11:07am Doug Schulkind:

And by bad, I mean badd.

11:08am kat330:

How's he getting that sharp slapping sound? Rim?

11:09am kat330:

Which he's not done again since I posted the question, of course! :)

11:10am mr c:

Doug..I'm impressed!! That's why we give the drummer some!

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

@kat330
Voodoo.

11:12am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef here, rather unusually, on alto sax.

11:12am kat330:

Ah, well, I wondered if it was some surface not ordinarily found in a drumkit.

11:15am mr c:

Really good show today...

11:16am Doug Schulkind:

It's going to be an all-Yusef January for me. Three hours just scratches the surface...

11:17am kat330:

On Tuesdays, too?

11:19am Jesse K:

I said that to myself when I woke up this morning, something tells me Doug's gonna play Yusef all month. That's a great thing!

11:20am northguineahills:

I guess 'Don't go back to Rockville' doesn't apply in this instance.

11:20am ndbob:

@Doug I remember buying lots of cutouts at that Peaches - once a large stack of prewar country reissues - mostly on County

11:24am ndbob:

@Doug that Ukrainian record is great!

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11:25am listener james from westwood:

outstanding shout-out in those notes.

11:26am Uncle Michael:

Moving...beautiful...and I'm sure, humbling.

11:26am Santos L Halper:

Thanks for that Doug! Very cool.

11:26am ndbob:

indeed James!

11:27am Jesse K:

left lung, definitely

11:29am Doug Schulkind:

I haven't breathed without trembling since first reading that in 1998. An incredibly generous thing for Mr. Dorn to write.

11:30am Santos L Halper:

We be warm now

11:31am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for halping, Santos!

11:32am Parq:

This first track of this set must have been recorded in my office.

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11:33am Brian in UK:

Has someone been peeling onions in here.

11:34am Señor Andy:

Brrrr…illiant

11:34am Doug Schulkind:

@kat330
No, I think I save Yusef for the Friday shows. The Tuesday shows will continue to meander down silly paths of one theme or another.

11:34am Parq:

Doug, just read the story from your blog. Man, what a memory to treasure!

11:35am Doug Schulkind:

Happy revelation!! There are FIVE Fridays in January this year. Wow!

11:36am kat330:

First the moo and then the cowbell.

11:36am kat330:

@doug: OK, thanks!

11:36am Santos L Halper:

On a lighter note, the goaty sounds on this track are cracking my kids up : )

11:37am Parq:

Friday the Thirteenth comes on a Monday this month. Just a heads-up.

11:38am Holly in NC:

Morning everyone! I'm almost hesitant to share that it's a relatively balmy 28°F here in Durham, and very sunny. Still windy as heck though.

What a super song this is!. I am shaking my ash. :-)

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

From a picture of Yusef appearing on the cover of this record 10 Years Hence, I made this watch: blogfiles.wfmu.org...

Glad you're warm, Holly. You had some hellish hot days last summer. You deserve a break.

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef preferred not revealing what "instrument" he was using to create the croaking sound on this cut. Sealhorn is the usual guess.

11:41am kat330:

Hey, Holly, and Happy New Year! We had mid-40's on NYE and NY day, so not too shabby here either.

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11:41am Brian in UK:

You right-handed, Doug?

11:41am Uncle Michael:

How do I follow this? I ask you.

11:42am Uncle Michael:

The attempt will occur here: wfmu.org...

*sigh*

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

During the course of January, I will be playing every track (4 more) from this album. Each a masterwork.

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

You beat me to it, Uncle Michael! (again)

Yes, the congregation shall congregate over here at noon (eastern): wfmu.org...

11:43am kat330:

Well, that's sure ONE way to get warm fast. :)

11:44am Stanley:

That's the best 'baaaa!' noise sample I've ever heard.
Great track, great show Doug.

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

Next up is my FAVORITE song. Yeah.

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

Thaaaank you Stanley.

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

Yusef stood over me and bowed and said, "and here is a song for my new friend here." Then played Russell and Eliot.

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11:46am listener james from westwood:

if ever there were a day to float some chicken gyoza and tofu slices in steaming hot miso, it's today. i think that'll start when i hear my first "hinky dinky."

11:47am Holly in NC:

@kat330 - Happy New Year backatcha! Glad you're taking care of your birds.

I am currently caring for chickens, who surprisingly(to me) seem quite weather-impervious/oblivious. Their human parents assured me they'd be fine through this weather, and that summer is more dangerous. Huh!

11:48am Uncle Michael:

I'm honored, James.

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11:49am listener james from westwood:

will be accenting it with green onions from the hinky dinky supermart!

11:49am kat330:

@Holly: I should have added bright, blue skies, sunny days (except yesterday) for the New Year here, too. Despite the incredibly steep rise in birdseed since buying my first feeder, we're still managing. Costs more than buying human grains now!

11:50am kat330:

@James: Oooooh, I ♥ miso soup!! Delish!

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11:51am Brian in UK:

Only FIVE Fridays in January. Have to have a word with this guy Julian. Nice one, Doug, beautifully compiled.

11:52am ndbob:

excellent tribute Doug!

11:52am Holly in NC:

Lunch today w/b a classic French omelette w. a splash of homemade chix stock added while beating the eggs, rolled around a light dusting of gruyere. To be eaten with a dandelion green & mache salad dressed w. a few drops of red wine vinegar & olive oil, and maybe a small slice of homemade chix liver mousse.

Took me longer to type that than it will to make, that's the beauty of it all! :-)

11:52am kat330:

@Doug: Great program today, emotional ending...

11:53am ndbob:

11:53am marcury:

SWEET!!!

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

Oh my.

11:57am Holly in NC:

@Doug, thank you very much for a for a lovely show, will catch up tonight.

For Doug, Artie, and everyone else:

www.neatorama.com...

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks everyone. I love you all madly.

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11:58am listener james from westwood:

i like, holly, i like. omelette may be in the works for dinner tonight.
masterful launch to yusef month, doug. we love you too!!

11:58am Uncle Michael:

Great, great show, Doug...see you all in the next room.

11:58am Gary:

Wonderful tribute, Doug

11:59am northguineahills:

Thanks Doug!

11:59am Hugo:

Splendid, looking forward to episode 2!

11:59am earrie:

That was something else, Doug.
And oh, '..all of January'

12:00pm Señor Andy:

Thanks, Doug

12:00pm Rob in SAV:

Great show today, Doug. Thank you for introducing me to Lateef years ago over the airwaves. The best.

12:03pm ndbob:

Greetings UM and everyone!

12:05pm ndbob:

ah - and now on to UMs playlist:)

12:05pm Santos L Halper:

Hmm…greetings other Rob in SAV!

12:05pm ndbob:

hmm - I must be just a ttle too cold:)

8:28pm Doug Schulkind:

@Rob in SAV
It has been my esteemed pleasure.

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Eugene Wright & His Dukes of Swing	Pork 'n' Beans	b/w Dawn Mist (Aristocrat 1948)
The Dozier Boys w/Eugene Wright's Dukes of Swing	Big Time Baby	b/w Music Goes Round and Round (Aristocrat 1948)
Eugene Wright & His Dukes of Swing	Dawn Mist	b/w Porks 'n' Beans (Aristocrat 1948)
The Dozier Boys w/Eugene Wright's Dukes of Swing	Music Goes Round and Round	b/w Big Time Baby (Aristocrat 1948)
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra	Algo Bueno (Woody'n You)	(Victor 1949)
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra	Tabu	Good Bait (Spotlite 1949)

Art Blakey & the Afro-Drum Ensemble	Obirin African	The African Beat (Blue Note 1962)
A.K. Salim	Pepo Za Sarari (Trade Winds)	Afro-Soul / Drum Orgy (Prestige 1965)
Yusef Lateef	The Mood	Hikima (C.N.C.S. 1983)

Yusef Lateef w/Cannonball Adderley	Trouble in Mind	n/a (n/a 1963)
Cannonball Adderley Sextet	Syn-Athesia	In New York (Riverside 1962)
Paul Chambers	Mopp Shoe Blues	1st Bassman (Vee Jay 1961)
Jimmy Scott	Our Day Will Come	The Source (Atlantic 1969)
Charles Mingus	Prayer for Passive Resistance	Pre Bird (Mercury 1960)

Yusef Lateef	Psychicemotus	Psychicemotus (Impulse! 1965)
Yusef Lateef	Big Bass Drum	Part of the Search (Atlantic 1974)
Yusef Lateef	Brother	The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 1967)

	January 3, 2014 To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in peace Program One
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Yusef Lateef	Morning	Jazz Mood (Savoy 1957)
Yusef Lateef	Moon Tree	The Fabric of Jazz (Savoy 1959)
Yusef Lateef	Happyology	Jazz for the Thinker (Savoy 1957)

Yusef Lateef	I Be Cold	10 Years Hence (Atlantic 1975)
Yusef Lateef	Russell and Eliot	Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Atlantic 1969)
Yusef Lateef	Goodbye	Roots Run Deep (Rogue Art 2012)

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