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- Detroit : The rise and fall of a city.... Yusef Lateef and his cry to the world to hear the plight of his people!!!
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This one channel that convinced me that I was not out of my mind when I collected every savoya records that was available in our local record shops in South Africa - Johannesburg. I remember buying American Jazzmen playing Andre Hodier at less than dollar years back, when I was a student and today this record is a collector's item which is not easily available.
YUP its all treasure as far as I am concerned!!!
I love your channel. You focus on the music and where it come from. You give your audience more than an opinion… you give us knowledge and a greater appreciation of the great American art form. Thank you sir!
appreciate the kind words, i certainly try to make content, that I would have loved to have known when learning about various new areas of jazz..
Dan! Enjoyed your Detroit Scene, Yusef Lateef program. Having spent my jazz-formative years in Detroit in the presence of Yusef Lateef, Charles McPherson, et al., I thought that your program was very informative, especially in conjunction with the photographs. Excellent!
thnx brutha ! ! its a great city, and she will make a return to greatness at some point!!!
I am glad you commented on the photos.. i think they add quite a lot
Great thought-provoking video as usual! Love Yusef Lateef. Just saw Louis Hayes play in NYC on his 85th birthday and he’s still a hell of a drummer! Thanks for all you work.
Thank You for focusing on Yusuf Lateeff and Detroit. I graduated college and began my career in Education. My colleague and life long friend opened the Jazz door to me. He has since passed and I dearly miss him. The Detroit Jazz Festival began in 1980 and the aura of Lateef was behind all that transpired. Detroit’s Ed system has a Jazz program which eventually led to the Bird, Trane, Sco, Now band. Young guys blowing/performing Jazz in the new vane. Yuseff Lateef left and ended up in New England yet his influence lies beneath a thriving Jazz scene which I’ve had the privilege of hearing. Thanks Again.
Your of course very welcome...
Detroit is such a great city in it's prime....
Well said, sir. Couldn’t agree more! I want to add Barry Harris, who recently passed away, Doug Watkins, Fuller, Chambers, Roy Brooks, Bags, Burrell, The Jones Boys, Stitt, Ron and Betty Carter with Alice Coltrane to round up some of the deep roster of Detroit native sons and daughters of Jazz.
@@edwardevans652 in my trading card series , of which i am into t he 500s now... I have already 34 improtant Detroit cats, and plan to do a deeper dive in this subject once I am done with this series
Detroit has such a rich music history: Motown, MC5, White Stripes and Jazz rotalty. Looking forward to your educational card series.
Excellent episode Dan. Yusef Lateef is someone I've really only discovered in the past few years through your channel. For me, he offers something quite different to everyone else before and after. He is a lot more influential than he is given credit for by many other RUclips channels in particular.
This is why I love Dan's channel. It seems that too often that the Eastern and African influences are all that we discuss about Yusef Lateef's work. But this episode covered something very important: Yusef Lateef could belt out the blues from his horn with the best of them. He came of age in the Detroit clubs before very discerning audiences who expected jazz musicians to know the blues. One of the wonders of Lateef's work was his inventiveness in layering music from around the world on top of his strong foundation in the blues. Just a great episode. Jazz for the Thinker is one of my favorite albums followed very closely by Prayer to the East. The Savoy albums are very hard to find but I have those two plus the Dreamer.
One of my Mysteries of Jazz: How was Yusef Lateef able to get the record labels to respect his Muslim name in the 1950s? You see so many credits from those days where the label will list a musician's adopted Muslim name but still provide the Christian one (e.g., "Shafi Hadi (Curtis Porter))" as though to say "he has the right to change his name if he wants but we have the right never to let him forget the one we gave him." (And please don't tell me that it was done simply for the purpose of identifying musicians to record buyers after they'd changed their names. Shafi Hadi and many others weren't known to audiences by their Christian names for years and years before adopting new ones. You can say that about Art Blakey but not many of these other guys I'm talking about.) But I've not seen Yusef Lateef get that treatment in the liner notes I've read.
WELL SAID!!!
~i AGREE completely with your assessment of the names...racism once again at work .... control and oppress!!
Im from Detroit, Proud to know some of the Greatest Jazz Musicians come from there.
Super important jazz city for sure
Great episode about “Detroit Jazz City” and Brother Yusef. Just listened to my Father’s copy of “The Three Faces” album. It’s one of my faves and Lateef’s most mainstream recording.
Such a great jazz legacy!!!
Agreed! Brother Dan.
Recently got into Mr. Lateef. Amazing!!!
Another Great episode Dan, every single one of those LPs needs a decent repress. Essential
it is a great legacy that they recorded in those years~~ I found this episode quite enjoyable watched it with my wife last night
Thanks Mr. Shepherd for not weighing in on the MoFi debate.
What debate is that??
@@TheJazzShepherd Good answer.
Yes!!! No mofi whining here!!!! Thank you Jazz Shepard!!! You are above all that !!!
@@matts9064 yeah I dont really even follow that stuff tbh... boring...
@@ejtonefan hahaha
Pepper Adams is another great Detroit jazz musician! Great baritone player.
Yup there are sooo many great from Detroit
Fantastic episode
thnx brother
Nice write up. Huge Lateef fan - Prayer to the East is a ghost. One day🤞. Reading Dilla Time which describes a lot of what you said about Detroit. High recommend that book. Peace
That sounds like a great read.. my first taste of America was crossing from Windsor Canada into Detroit... The shock in my 6 year old eyes was incredible..the poverty I never saw in Canada
@@TheJazzShepherd appearantly Henry Ford had no issue hiring blacks from the south. Lots of northern migration. Interesting how Dillas neighborhood changed over last decades. Detroit public schools placed an emphasis on music. So much more intel not to mention Dillas story.
Another great history lesson.
Here in the UK you don't see much Yusef Lateef on vinyl especially the early stuff.Reissues would be most welcome
yeah these are rare on both sides of the pond!!!
Hello Mr. Jazz Shepherd, it seems that these days 90% of your video's are in mirror mode. That is somewhat annoying if one want to read what you are showing.
it is a phone issue... I try to remember in editing, n was doing good there for a while , but have been forgetting agian to do so, its some glitch in the new Galazy phone
Dan, I know you mean well and there is no doubting your impressive record collection but I feel you need to be careful as a guy in a big house who doesn’t go to work trying to be the voice of black America. Hope this doesn’t offend you, I just feel you may be skirting on the edge.
I do try to be careful... not sure what yuo meant by the big house and no job >>??
I have had many black Americans comment and appreciate my take on this history, never had a complaint yet.... white America however will do so frequently... I certainly mean no offense to anyone... I aint trying to be the voice of black America, rather just speaking up for Black America thru the lens of this history, and what history itself teaches us about these type events... Anything particular you were referring too?
@@TheJazzShepherd You’ve never shied away from your opinion’s on race, which is admirable but, and this is only my opinion, I don’t know if your platform is the right one for continuously telling us what the black people want and need. My rant is over and I really don’t want to get into a big debate but it was bothering me and I had to get it off my chest.
@@gigsfunk fair enough.... I dont speak for what they need now,.... but I have read enough, spoken with enough and own enough of the music, (n know the history) to feel confident to speak about what was going on back then... Be blessed man... I hear what your saying
@@TheJazzShepherd fair enough mate and big props to you for taking what could have become a negative and corresponding with grace and thoughtfulness. ✌️
HA .. I am a work in progress.... some comments are easier to do so than others... a well thought out articulate comment like yours allows for pause and reflection...
n I am already treading as careful as I can due to sensitivity on this issue...
I swear I speak from a place of love and reverence....