Yusef Lateef discography
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A discography of the multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef (1920–2013).
Discography
As Leader/Co-leader
| Year recorded | Title | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Jazz Mood | Savoy | Debut release from second recording session |
| 1957 | Jazz for the Thinker | Savoy | |
| 1957 | Stable Mates | Savoy | Split album with A. K. Salim |
| 1957 | Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef | Verve | |
| 1957 | Prayer to the East | Savoy | |
| 1957 | Jazz and the Sounds of Nature | Savoy | |
| 1957 | The Sounds of Yusef | Prestige | |
| 1957 | Other Sounds | Prestige/New Jazz | Released 1959 |
| 1958 | Lateef at Cranbrook | Argo | Live album |
| 1959 | The Dreamer | Savoy | |
| 1959 | The Fabric of Jazz | Savoy | |
| 1959 | Cry! – Tender | Prestige/New Jazz | Includes one track from 1957 |
| 1960 | The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef | Riverside | |
| 1960 | The Centaur and the Phoenix | Riverside | |
| 1961 | Lost in Sound | Charlie Parker | |
| 1961 | Eastern Sounds | Prestige/Moodsville | |
| 1961 | Into Something | Prestige/New Jazz | |
| 1963 | Jazz 'Round the World | Impulse! | |
| 1964 | Live at Pep's | Impulse! | Live album |
| 1965 | 1984 | Impulse! | |
| 1965 | Psychicemotus | Impulse! | |
| 1966 | A Flat, G Flat and C | Impulse! | |
| 1966 | The Golden Flute | Impulse! | |
| 1967 | The Complete Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1968 | The Blue Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1969 | Yusef Lateef's Detroit | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1967 |
| 1969 | The Diverse Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1968 |
| 1970 | Suite 16 | Atlantic | |
| 1971 | The Gentle Giant | Atlantic | Includes two tracks from 1970 |
| 1972 | Hush 'N' Thunder | Atlantic | |
| 1973 | Part of the Search | Atlantic | Includes one track from 1971 |
| 1974 | 10 Years Hence | Atlantic | Live album with studio overdubs |
| 1976 | The Doctor is In... and Out | Atlantic | |
| 1977 | Autophysiopsychic | CTI | With Art Farmer |
| 1979 | In a Temple Garden | CTI | |
| 1983 | Yusef Lateef in Nigeria | Landmark | |
| 1983 | Hikima - Creativity | Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies | Live album - limited edition |
| 1987 | Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony | Atlantic | Grammy Award for Best New Age Album |
| 1988 | Concerto for Yusef Lateef | Atlantic | |
| 1989 | Nocturnes | Atlantic | |
| 1990 | Meditations | Atlantic | |
| 1991 | Yusef Lateef's Encounters | Atlantic | |
| 1992 | Heart Vision | YAL | |
| 1992 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp | YAL | With Archie Shepp |
| 1992 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman | YAL | With Von Freeman |
| 1992 | Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads | YAL | |
| 1993 | Tenors featuring Rene McLean | YAL | With Rene McLean |
| 1993 | Woodwinds | YAL | With Ralph M. Jones III |
| 1993 | The African-American Epic Suite | ACT | |
| 1993 | Metamorphosis | YAL | |
| 1993 | Claiming Open Spaces | YAL | Soundtrack |
| 1994 | Suite Life | YAL | |
| 1994 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef & Ricky Ford | YAL | With Ricky Ford |
| 1994 | Cantata | YAL | |
| 1995 | The World at Peace | YAL/Meta | Live album with Adam Rudolph |
| 1996 | Yusef Lateef's Fantasia for Flute | YAL | |
| 1996 | Full Circle | YAL | |
| 1997 | Sonata Fantasia | YAL | With Alex J. Marcelo |
| 1997 | CHNOPS: Gold & Soul | YAL | |
| 1997 | Earth and Sky | YAL | With Sayyd A. Al-Khabyyr |
| 1998 | 9 Bagatelles | YAL | |
| 1998 | Like the Dust | YAL | |
| 1999 | Live in Seattle | YAL | With Adam Rudolph |
| 1999 | A Goodness Inwardness Forgiving Tolerance | YAL | With Adam Rudolph |
| 2000 | Beyond the Sky | YAL/Meta | With Adam Rudolph |
| 2001 | Live at the Luckman Theater | YAL | With Eternal Wind |
| 2001 | Earriptus | YAL | |
| 2001 | So Peace | YAL | |
| 2002 | A Tribute Concert for Yusef Lateef | YAL | Live album |
| 2002 | Homage to Yusef Lateef | YAL | Live album with Corvini-Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble |
| 2003 | In the Garden | YAL | With Adam Rudolph and Go: Organic Orchestra |
| 2004 | Roots Run Deep | RogueArt | With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto - released 2012 |
| 2005 | Influence | B-Flat/Discograph | With Stéphane Belmondo and Lionel Belmondo |
| 2008 | Voice Prints | Meta | With Roscoe Mitchell, Adam Rudolph and Douglas R. Ewart - released 2012 |
| 2009 | Towards the Unknown | Meta | With Adam Rudolph - released 2010 |
As sideman
With Cannonball Adderley
- The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1962)
- Cannonball in Europe! (Capitol, 1962)
- Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1962)
- Autumn Leaves (Riverside, 1963)
- Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1963)
With Nat Adderley
- That's Right! (Riverside, 1960)
With Ernestine Anderson
- My Kinda Swing (Mercury, 1960)
With Art Blakey
- The African Beat (Blue Note, 1962)
With Donald Byrd
- Byrd Jazz (Transition, 1955), aka First Flight (Delmark)
With Paul Chambers
- 1st Bassman (Vee Jay, 1961)
With Art Farmer
- Something You Got (CTI, 1977)
With Curtis Fuller
- Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick, 1960)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–1949 [1995])
With Grant Green
- Grantstand (Blue Note, 1961)
With Slide Hampton
- Drum Suite (Epic, 1962)
With Louis Hayes
- Louis Hayes (Vee-Jay, 1960); re-issued as Contemplation under Lateef's name
With Les McCann
- Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1972)
With Don McLean
- Homeless Brother (1973)
With Charles Mingus
- Mingus Revisited, originally Pre-Bird (Limelight, originally Mercury, 1960)
With Sonny Red
- Breezing (Jazzland, 1960)
With Leon Redbone
- Double Time (Warner Bros., 1976)
With A. K. Salim
- Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (Prestige, 1965)
With Clark Terry
- Color Changes (Candid, 1960)
With Doug Watkins
- Soulnik (New Jazz, 1960)
With Randy Weston
- Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
With Various Artists
- Jazz Is Busting Out All Over (Savoy 1957)