June 2019
YAL 2019 Summer Sale and more YAL Site News
06/10/19 04:19 PM
YAL 2019 Summer Sale and more YAL Site News
We are happy to announce the 2019 Summer Sale at YusefLateef.com!
20% Off Selected YAL CDs! - Live at Roulette, Live at the Luckman, Live at the Montreaux Detroit Jazz Festival, Live in Seattle.
20% Off All YAL Art Prints!
We are also pleased to bring you a fascinating scholarly article entitled "Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Quest" by Ingrid Monson - the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. She is the author of Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (2007), The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (2000), and Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996).
The article first appeared in Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Spring 2019 issue, and appears here on the YAL site with the kind permission of the author.
Here is the Abstract of the article:
"Yusef Lateef’s neologism for jazz was autophysiopsychic, meaning “music from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self.” Lateef condensed in this term a very considered conception linking the intellectual and the spiritual based in his faith as an Ahmadiyya Muslim and his lifelong commitment to both Western and non-Western intellectual explorations. Lateef’s distinctive voice as an improviser is traced with respect to his autophysiopsychic exploration of world instruments including lutes, double reeds, and chordophones, and his friendship with John Coltrane. The two shared a love of spiritual exploration as well as the study of science, physics, symmetry, and mathematics. Lateef’s ethnomusicological research on Hausa music in Nigeria, as well as his other writings and visual art, deepen our understanding of him as an artist-scholar who cleared the way for the presence of autophysiopsychic musicians in the academy."
You can read the entire article here.
Thanks very much for your continuing interest and support for the music and works of Dr. Yusef Lateef.
Yours in Peace
We are happy to announce the 2019 Summer Sale at YusefLateef.com!
20% Off Selected YAL CDs! - Live at Roulette, Live at the Luckman, Live at the Montreaux Detroit Jazz Festival, Live in Seattle.
20% Off All YAL Art Prints!
We are also pleased to bring you a fascinating scholarly article entitled "Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Quest" by Ingrid Monson - the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. She is the author of Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (2007), The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (2000), and Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996).
The article first appeared in Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Spring 2019 issue, and appears here on the YAL site with the kind permission of the author.
Here is the Abstract of the article:
"Yusef Lateef’s neologism for jazz was autophysiopsychic, meaning “music from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self.” Lateef condensed in this term a very considered conception linking the intellectual and the spiritual based in his faith as an Ahmadiyya Muslim and his lifelong commitment to both Western and non-Western intellectual explorations. Lateef’s distinctive voice as an improviser is traced with respect to his autophysiopsychic exploration of world instruments including lutes, double reeds, and chordophones, and his friendship with John Coltrane. The two shared a love of spiritual exploration as well as the study of science, physics, symmetry, and mathematics. Lateef’s ethnomusicological research on Hausa music in Nigeria, as well as his other writings and visual art, deepen our understanding of him as an artist-scholar who cleared the way for the presence of autophysiopsychic musicians in the academy."
You can read the entire article here.
Thanks very much for your continuing interest and support for the music and works of Dr. Yusef Lateef.
Yours in Peace