February 2020
New Works by Dr. Yusef Lateef and free USA Shipping for All CDs!
02/19/20 02:00 PM
Free domestic USA shipping for all CDs!
We are happy to announce we now offer free USA domestic shipping for all CDs at YusefLateef.com! A wonderful opportunity to add Dr. Lateef's CDs to your collection! Some titles in limited quantities - order while they last!
Now available - Dr. Yusef Lateef’s album Hikima:Creativity! in its newly reissued vinyl recording format.
Please Note: The Hikima LP is Sold Out and no longer available.
In the early 1980s, famed saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist and musical luminary Yusef Lateef traveled to Nigeria as a Senior Research Fellow to study, write, and teach at the Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University. While there he cut this recording with students and local musicians at a small local press. It has been virtually unknown to fans and collectors for over 30 years. On Hikima, Lateef leads a nonet of African musicians in seven compositions that fuse his deep African-American roots with native Nigerian instruments, drums and chants. The sounds stretch from meditative and melancholic to urgent and unrelenting. A singular recording impossible to classify or confine.
"Lateef’s Hikima is immediately wayward, frenetic, radical, the kind of highlife you want to march to." - Yinka Elujoba
This vinyl LP is beautifully restored and remastered, licensed through through permission of the Lateef Estate, and pressed at RTI. Printed cardboard sleeve done at Dorado. Edition of 800.
Released June 1, 2019.
The Hikima vinyl LP is also available in a bundle with Dr. Lateef's book, The Musicians, Music & Musical Instruments of Northwestern Nigeria and his CD, "Live in Nigeria".
New Art Prints by Dr. Lateef!
In honor of the upcoming Yusef Lateef Centenary, 1920 - 2020, we are pleased to make available 21 new Art Prints of drawings by Dr. Lateef!
"Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Lateef was immersed in his creation of ‘autophysiopsychic music.’ He described this as music that comes from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self or ‘from the heart’. As part of this creative continuum, Dr. Lateef made over 100 drawings, as well as innovative graphic notations and scores in which numbers and shapes organize complex interval-based music.
He activated some of this technique in his works on paper by pouring small puddles of ink onto the page and then blowing through a straw to spread the liquid. These fanning pools are interwoven with various marks, lines, squiggles, scratches and concentric circles. At times, the shapes resemble emerging trees, candelabra, flowers and clouds. In other instances, amoeba-like clusters boom like the cosmos across the page.
Dr. Lateef’s drawing practice was informed by his lifelong immersion in methods of free playing wherein the ‘feeling tone’ of a singular gesture inspires the next. This call and response unfolds one mark at a time, from first to the last, in a process that could take one or many days before a drawing reached completion. As a devout Muslim, his drawings were frequently embedded with references to Allah - The One worthy of worship. This infused his work as an outspoken philosopher, dedicated educator, playwright and science fiction novelist, for whom creativity was a force that exists in myriad forms." - White Columns Gallery
Thanks very much for your continuing interest and support for the music and works of Dr. Yusef Lateef.
Always Yours in Peace
We are happy to announce we now offer free USA domestic shipping for all CDs at YusefLateef.com! A wonderful opportunity to add Dr. Lateef's CDs to your collection! Some titles in limited quantities - order while they last!
Now available - Dr. Yusef Lateef’s album Hikima:Creativity! in its newly reissued vinyl recording format.
Please Note: The Hikima LP is Sold Out and no longer available.
In the early 1980s, famed saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist and musical luminary Yusef Lateef traveled to Nigeria as a Senior Research Fellow to study, write, and teach at the Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University. While there he cut this recording with students and local musicians at a small local press. It has been virtually unknown to fans and collectors for over 30 years. On Hikima, Lateef leads a nonet of African musicians in seven compositions that fuse his deep African-American roots with native Nigerian instruments, drums and chants. The sounds stretch from meditative and melancholic to urgent and unrelenting. A singular recording impossible to classify or confine.
"Lateef’s Hikima is immediately wayward, frenetic, radical, the kind of highlife you want to march to." - Yinka Elujoba
This vinyl LP is beautifully restored and remastered, licensed through through permission of the Lateef Estate, and pressed at RTI. Printed cardboard sleeve done at Dorado. Edition of 800.
Released June 1, 2019.
The Hikima vinyl LP is also available in a bundle with Dr. Lateef's book, The Musicians, Music & Musical Instruments of Northwestern Nigeria and his CD, "Live in Nigeria".
New Art Prints by Dr. Lateef!
In honor of the upcoming Yusef Lateef Centenary, 1920 - 2020, we are pleased to make available 21 new Art Prints of drawings by Dr. Lateef!
"Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Lateef was immersed in his creation of ‘autophysiopsychic music.’ He described this as music that comes from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self or ‘from the heart’. As part of this creative continuum, Dr. Lateef made over 100 drawings, as well as innovative graphic notations and scores in which numbers and shapes organize complex interval-based music.
He activated some of this technique in his works on paper by pouring small puddles of ink onto the page and then blowing through a straw to spread the liquid. These fanning pools are interwoven with various marks, lines, squiggles, scratches and concentric circles. At times, the shapes resemble emerging trees, candelabra, flowers and clouds. In other instances, amoeba-like clusters boom like the cosmos across the page.
Dr. Lateef’s drawing practice was informed by his lifelong immersion in methods of free playing wherein the ‘feeling tone’ of a singular gesture inspires the next. This call and response unfolds one mark at a time, from first to the last, in a process that could take one or many days before a drawing reached completion. As a devout Muslim, his drawings were frequently embedded with references to Allah - The One worthy of worship. This infused his work as an outspoken philosopher, dedicated educator, playwright and science fiction novelist, for whom creativity was a force that exists in myriad forms." - White Columns Gallery
Thanks very much for your continuing interest and support for the music and works of Dr. Yusef Lateef.
Always Yours in Peace