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The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of 
Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs from Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, 
Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theater, and throat singers of the Lower East Side.

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Favoriting October 9, 2020: One hundred years with Yusef Lateef

This radio show denounces explicit and implicit racism.
It condemns the culture of White supremacy, which enables the brutalization of Black people and other communities of color.
It supports Black Lives Matter and the movement it stands for.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Sarah Webster Fabio 

Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting

Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues 

Folkways 

1976 

0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
ECD 

In Tempo   Favoriting

Major Force: The Original Art-Form 

Mo' Wax 

1990 

0:11:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Yusef Lateef  Happyology   Favoriting Jazz for the Thinker  Savoy  1957  0:14:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Before Dawn   Favoriting Before Dawn  Verve  1957  0:25:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  First Movement - The African as Non-American   Favoriting The African-American Epic Suite  The Act Company  1993  0:31:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Chase Scene   Favoriting Tracks in the Sand (OST)  Access  1962  0:37:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Main Title   Favoriting Tracks in the Sand (OST)  Access  1962  0:37:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Jack Costanzo 

Bajo Number Uno   Favoriting

Latin Fever 

Liberty 

1958 

0:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Charles Mingus  Prayer for a Passive Resistance   Favoriting Pre-Bird  Mercury  1960  0:49:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Sounds of Nature   Favoriting Jazz and the Sounds of Nature  Savoy  1957  0:53:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Sea Breeze   Favoriting Cry! – Tender  New Jazz  1959  0:56:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Afro-Drum Ensemble  Obiran African   Favoriting The African Beat  Blue Note  1962  1:00:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Brazil   Favoriting At Cranbrook  Argo  1958  1:03:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Eboness   Favoriting The Diverse Yusef Lateef  Atlantic  1970  1:06:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Music behind DJ:
Mocean Worker 

Counts, Dukes & Strays   Favoriting

Mixed Emotional Features 

Palm Pictures 

1999 

1:10:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  1984   Favoriting 1984  Impulse!  1965  1:16:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  I Need You   Favoriting Contemplation  Vee Jay  1960  1:24:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  India   Favoriting Jazz 'Round the World  Impulse!  1963  1:32:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Sound Wave   Favoriting A Flat, G Flat and C  Impulse!  1966  1:36:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Music behind DJ:
Harvey Mandel (w. Charlie Musselwhite) 

Cristo Redentor   Favoriting

Cristo Redentor 

Philips 

1968 

1:40:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  The Plum Blossom   Favoriting Eastern Sounds  Moodsville  1961  1:47:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Juba Juba   Favoriting The Blue Yusef Lateef  Atlantic  1968  1:51:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Koroso   Favoriting Hikima: Creativity  (Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies  1983  1:56:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Psychicemotus   Favoriting Psychicemotus  Impulse!  1965  2:00:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Johnny Hodges 

I'm in Another World   Favoriting

b/w Dancing on the Stars 

Vocalion 

1938 

2:05:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Yusef's Mood   Favoriting 10 Years Hence  Atlantic  1974  2:16:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Come Sunday   Favoriting Hush 'n' Thunder  Atlantic  1972  2:34:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Sister Mamie   Favoriting Live at Pep's  Impulse!  1964  2:36:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Music behind DJ:
Ray Charles 

Rockhouse   Favoriting

b/w Rockhouse (pt. 2) 

Atlantic 

1958 

2:42:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Brother   Favoriting The Complete Yusef Lateef  Atlantic  1967  2:50:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Look on Your Right Side   Favoriting Autophysiopsychic  CTI  1977  2:56:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Interior Monologue   Favoriting Roots Run Deep  Rogue Art  2004  3:00:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Russell and Eliot   Favoriting Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42º 30' Longitude 83º  Atlantic  1969  3:03:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)

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Music behind DJ:
John Lee Hooker 

Stand By   Favoriting

I Feel Good 

Jewel 

1971 

3:08:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 10/6 5:00pm
Doug Schulkind:

For deeper listening, spend some time with the archives of my five consecutive memorial broadcasts following Yusef's death in late 2013:

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program One................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Two................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Three............... wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Four................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Five................. wfmu.org...
Avatar 10/8 8:20am
PKNY:

@Doug: Looking forward to the celebration, will likely catch it on the archives.

Last November, I found a signed copy of a YL record in a local record store, was able to A/B it with the photos from your blog post to see that it was legit:

photos.app.goo.gl...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:07pm
Doug Schulkind:

To Bro. PKNY...in peace!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am
Phillippe Bastille:

good morning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am
Doug Schulkind:

Yes indeed it is, Phillippe Bastille!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am
Gina Bacon:

Good morning!
Avatar 🥁 9:05am
duke:

Howdy Sir Doug from upstate NY running off a generator. No outside power since Wednesday.
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Really Lisa:

Hello Doug and all. Glad to have this tribute as my background music this morning.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06am
Maggie B.:

Happy YL centennial Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07am
doctorjazz:

Hello Drummers. Looking forward to this show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07am
listener Rey:

Good morning Doug and all listeners. I second what Dr Jazz said
  9:08am
bigplanetnoise:

Coffee and tributes everyday! Morning, Doug and Drummers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am
Doug Schulkind:

Happy to see you Gina Bacon! duke on a generator! Really Lisa! doctorjazz! listener Rey! under-caffeinated bigplanetnoise!
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Alan R:

ready for 3 hours of escape from all the other caca going on. thank you Yusef, thank you Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09am
Doug Schulkind:

Goodest morning to you, Maggie B!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:09am
Maggie B.:

@Duke, I feel your pain! Are you in Greene County?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10am
Doug Schulkind:

Come escape with me, Alan R!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11am
David Dichelle:

Happy centenary!
  9:12am
Irene:

Looking forward to this tribute, Doug! Thanks for the links to your 2013 tributes. That will keep me busy for a while.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am
Doug Schulkind:

Not going in chronological order today. Just meandering through the garden of delights and stopping to sniff each precious offering.

Happy to keep you busy, Irene!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am
Doug Schulkind:

Thank you, David Dichelle! I didn't do it all myself, of course.
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duke:

@Maggie B We don't expect power restored until Saturday night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17am
Doug Schulkind:

It's amazing how much Yusef sings throughout so many of his recordings. His voice unstoppable. You will hear it all morning.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:18am
Brian in UK:

Hello Doug, did you realise when you first heard Yusuf that he would be there for the longest time?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19am
Doug Schulkind:

Yusef has bass player Ernie Farrow (Alice Coltrane's half-brother) playing the Afghani string instrument called the rabat here.
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Bill D:

Hello Irene!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am
Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
The thing is, YES. My first discover was an immediate and permanent immersion.


Howdy, Bill D!
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dougseidel:

all the human-ness in this music is a great antidote
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KWilde:

Good morning Drummers Good morning Yusef!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am
Doug Schulkind:

@dougseidel
Now more than ever. Sheesh. And welcome!
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Listener Gregory:

Good morning, all. Really looking forward to the show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23am
Doug Schulkind:

Welcome welcome KWilde! Listener Gregory!
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Listener Gregory:

It seemed to me that the main section of Happyology is based on the chords of Woody 'n' You, which was a surprise after the African intro.
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Bill D:

Good morning Doug! Will never forget that wonderful autograph story you told about Yusef ! Been looking forward to this special!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25am
Doug Schulkind:

Here is that story Bill D is referring to. The first time I ever met Yusef: blog.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am
Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
As usual, your ears are screwed on just right.
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northguineahills:

Been waiting for this!
  9:28am
Irene:

G’morning Bill! (and Maggie too)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29am
Doug Schulkind:

Me, too, northguineahills! For years!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33am
Artie:

I've so looking forward to today's show. And here it is!!
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northguineahills:

Most pre-clickied tracks were done by.... Doug, who thunk it!!!????
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:40am
Brian in UK:

Doug, cannot imagine the pride you felt to be called his friend.
Avatar 🥁 9:43am
duke:

When you mention last week taht this show would be about Yusef, I dug out my CDs and listened to him quite a bit this week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am
Doug Schulkind:

Great that you're here to celebrate with me, Artie!

@Brian in UK
The pride was/is almost unbearable.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:44am
Irene Trudel:

Hearing your story about cut-outs reminds me of how important they were to my own musical development. At a time when money was in short supply, I could take a chance on buying a few artists I'd never heard of but found the instrumentation interesting. Most of them are still in my collection.
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Listener Gregory:

Don't hear much *passive* here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45am
Doug Schulkind:

"Prayer for a Passive Resistance" had a particular heavy meaning in 1960.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47am
Irene Trudel:

@Doug, it must've been so great to meet a musician you'd admired like Lateef and get to know him on a personal level.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47am
Doug Schulkind:

Right, Irene?! Cut-outs and dollar-bin finds. The ability to explore and experiment and take chances on the unknown.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48am
Doug Schulkind:

@Irene
Yusef made everyone in his orbit feel that way. I know many who knew him more intimately, and they say he treated everyone with a great welcoming warmth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
Doug Schulkind:

Every song, a journey to the new.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51am
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, oboe!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:51am
Irene Trudel:

Absolutely Doug! Over time among my finds were entire catalogs Tim Buckley's and Early Genesis with Peter Gabriel. Also, so many Smithsonian Folkways records. Peter and I were just reminiscing about the amazing Tower Records Annex on W.4th Street and the things we discovered there. But some of my biggest finds were in average department stores like the defunct Two Guys and Bradlees chains.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am
Doug Schulkind:

Ohmigod, Irene. I must've snarfed up 300 Folkways LPs at the Tower Annex. At first, they were all a dollar, then 50¢, then four for a dollar. I bought multiple copies of many records and gave them away as gifts.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53am
Brian in UK:

I found a copy of a Holy Modal Rounders record in our local ironmongers, late Sixties; nearly fell over when I saw it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am
Doug Schulkind:

Flute here, with Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54am
Doug Schulkind:

Yusef's most killer flute performance coming up in about 5 minutes.
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Listener Gregory:

In addition to cutouts, let us now praise famous Two-Fers, which is where I learned about Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and innumerable others are cut rates.
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northguineahills:

When Tower was going out of business, I made out like a bandit, alas, no Folkways rekkids. (but I got many from the OM discount bins and the ones under the main ones on the right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56am
Doug Schulkind:

Just reading the word "Two-Fer" quickens my pulse, Listener Gregory.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:57am
Brian in UK:

Doug, was Brazil recorded over here?
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northguineahills:

(I was dj friends w/ some of the employees at OM, so, they would hold the esoteric stuff I liked).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58am
Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
This was recorded live in Detroit at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:59am
Irene Trudel:

@Gregory, Two-Fers and those samplers that Warner Bros. and a few other companies were offering for $1. @ngh, that's fantastic you had inside help!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59am
Webhamster Henry:

Nothing says "Give The Drummer Radio" like Yusuf Lateef doing a 5/4 cover of Brazil.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00am
Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Theremin alert! Theremin alert! Coming up at the end of the next set.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:00am
adamdoesit:

Good morning and happy 100th, Yusef. Thanks for the centennial treat, Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01am
Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Can I borrow that for my headstone?
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βrian:

Tnis day, Day 207, is a furlough day. Gotta build the form for a concrete footing. Yusef has oferred to help.
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Jeff Golick:

What time is it? It's Yusef Time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02am
Doug Schulkind:

@adamdoesit
Oh wow, the pleasure is mine!

Groovy greetings, βrian! Jeff Golick!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03am
sinner:

First day in forever that I woke up and out of bed on time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03am
Irene Trudel:

Gonna have to postpone the start of my workday to continue listening, Doug.
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Listener Gregory:

He has such a beautiful flute sound, which cannot be said about all multi-instrumentalists who play the instrument.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07am
david w:

Great! Hello, Doug and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am
Webhamster Henry:

My cut-out unopened copy of "The Naked Carmen" turned into a fan web page that made me an unqualified expert on that recording.
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thedunkel:

Good morning Mr. Drummer! Good morning all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am
Doug Schulkind:

Huzzah! david w! Hoo-hahm thedunkel!

And, THANKS for your pledge, thedunkel!
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thedunkel:

thanks for all you do! and the skeleton crew too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am
Doug Schulkind:

No meat on the bone, at WFMU, thedunkel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am
Doug Schulkind:

I mean, this was a "jazz" record, released on the label of John Coltrane, in 1965. Never destined to become "popular" or a big-seller. But he followed his vision and fortunately found producers (Bob Thiele at Impulse, Joel Dorn at Atlantic) who supported him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am
Doug Schulkind:

That... tone.

Playing here with the great genius and patriarch of Detroit musicians, pianist Barry Harris.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am
Webhamster Henry:

Doug - what was the name of that weird , large junk shop on 27 or 28th street near FIT that had a huge number of disco single cut-outs? I found some interesting non-disco single material there.
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Listener Gregory:

I Need You seems to be toying with Round Midnight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20am
Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
When I worked with Steinski over there I used to browse that place during lunchtime. Bought a ton of Mexican rock 'n' roll records one day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am
Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Come to think of it, Sir, you were very likely present at one of the great moments of my Yusef-loving life. At one of Steinski's salons. Didn't you used to go to them? One time the great Joel Dorn came along with his son Adam (who I just played as my music bed, performing as "Mocean Worker.") I'll tell the story about meeting Joel Dorn at that Steinski salon a little later in the show.
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northguineahills:

@Henry: must have been before my day. My partner went to grad school at FIT, and I worked 8 blocks north, so I spent a lot of time around there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am
Doug Schulkind:

Yusef became entranced, early on, with the little wind instruments the shanai, a multi-reed oboe-like woowdind, and the twin-tube Egyptian argol (or sometimes arghul), and he added their sound to recordings and performances throughout his life.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am
Webhamster Henry:

Indeed, I used to go to the Steinski salons! I think Citizen Kafka invited me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am
David Dichelle:

There it is!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31am
Webhamster Henry:

Cello & theremin makes a good combo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31am
Webhamster Henry:

Gb is a sad key, as opposed to F#.
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Listener Gregory:

A's flat, Ah's flat too. (Quoting Charles Mingus)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am
Doug Schulkind:

Just like Yusef, the theremin is celebrating it's 100th birthday this year, too! Listen for some choice theremin action on David Dichelle's Continental Subway show from yesterday: wfmu.org...
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Listener Gregory:

For theremin lovers or just the analog-curious, I can strongly recommend Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet by Carolina Eyck.
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northguineahills:

I never heard that theremin record!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35am
holland oats:

drumma! peoples! great tribute doug
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northguineahills:

shehnai is Indian/Pakistani....
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Listener Gregory:

@ngh, give it a listen!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41am
Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, northguineahills. Yes, that's right.

Helloooo, holland oats!
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northguineahills:

@Gregory: *frantically takes notes*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43am
Doug Schulkind:

Yusef on bamboo flute on this number. The great Barry Harris is back, and fellow Detroiter Lex Humphries on drums. Bassist Ernie Farrow (who would later die in a swimming pool accident) back on the rabat.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am
David Dichelle:

Thanks for the link, Doug - it is a fascinating instrument.
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northguineahills:

@Doug: I can't spell/grammar worth anything, but I'm that annoying friend that's always a wee bit pendantical.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45am
Doug Schulkind:

On a number of his Atlantic records, produced by Joel Dorn, Yusef included the vocal textures of the Sweet Inspirations (including the revered Cissy Houston).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47am
Doug Schulkind:

This song is a tribute to the key historic figure, minstrel dancer William Henry "Juba" Lane.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47am
adamdoesit:

I didn't know Yusef didn't like the word "jazz." I wonder whether denying that word helped free him to play outside the (expanding, contracting) jazz canon.
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northguineahills:

This week has been a week of clicky-starred episodes on GTDS!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52am
Doug Schulkind:

@adamdoesit
And at a certain point, because of his faith, Yusef began refusing to perform in venues that served alcohol. I'll tell a story about that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53am
Doug Schulkind:

This was recorded in Nigeria at Ahmadou Bello University in Zaira.
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Irene Trudel:

@ngh, I think i'm going to have to clicky-star the whole show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56am
WR:

New Orleanian James Black on drums.
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Listener Gregory:

The word "jazz" is limiting and has definite baggage. But on the other hand, every musician who objects to it has made a different label, and so no new term reaches wide use. A phrase like Great Black Music make sense when the Art Ensemble uses it but can't readily be used by Europeans or White Americans who draw on the same tradition. So, I don't see a resolution to this.
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Sem:

Luxuriating in the Lateef vibe whilst head down in some rather, ahem, times and goesinta tasks. Thank you, Doug, and greets, drummer some devotees.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am
Doug Schulkind:

@WR
Yes yes yes yes! Funky drummer supreme!
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northguineahills:

I prefer the original "jass"....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58am
Doug Schulkind:

Ahem, it's Sem! The man who adopted Give the Drummer Radio for 2020-2021! All hail Sem!
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northguineahills:

I'm pretty sure I saw Lateef at a venue that served alcohol. Maybe I need to revisit my brain.
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northguineahills:

ne'er mind, it was BYOB....
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duke:

As a teenager about a million years ago I found The Blue Yusef Lateef in a cutout bin. I have been a Yusef fan ever since.
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chresti:

Morning Doug and drummer world!
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Listener Gregory:

Re: your Night Music story... arrrrggggghhhhh!
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Uncle Michael:

Hail, Sem.
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northguineahills:

I disagree w/ not playing at venues that serve alcohol, but not playing at a Michelob sponsored venue, I can get behind.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:08am
Uncle Michael:

Because Michelob is lousy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am
Doug Schulkind:

Buckle in friends, this is 18 minutes of pure joy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10am
Webhamster Henry:

I like the jazz that's pronounced "yotz", but it's not particularly authentic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11am
Doug Schulkind:

@duke
Me too, brother. I scooped up all those Yusef LPs on Atlantic from a single cut-out bin in about 1977. Been ears-over-heels in love ever since.
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northguineahills:

@UM: Beer joke (don't think I've had a michelob in over 20 years, except maybe randomly at a party 15 years ago...)
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Doug Schulkind:

Yusef worked with three brilliant pianists over the course of three decades, Barry Harris, Hugh Lawson, and the ivory-tickler on this number, Kenneth Barron (younger brother of the fine, underrated woodwind player Bill Barron).
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Doug Schulkind:

The audience KILLS me on this record. What absurdly wonderful pleasure the musicians on the bandstand must've been feeling.
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Listener Gregory:

A good audience is essential. Fortunately I wasn't there, clapping a half-second behind the beat.
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Doug Schulkind:

Hey, did y'all check out the Yusef watch I made? (Scan to the bottom of the playlist page.) Other than my daughter, maybe my proudest moment was its creation.
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Erella:

doug, this show is fantastic. I am really enjoying everything you are playing.
Thank you
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Erella:

Nice watch!
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Doug Schulkind:

Oh wow, Erella. Nothing makes me happier!
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Doug Schulkind:

Repeating the comment I posted way up at the top...

For deeper listening, spend some time with the archives of my five consecutive memorial broadcasts following Yusef's death in late 2013:

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program One................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Two................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Three............... wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Four................. wfmu.org...

To Bro. Yusef A. Lateef, in Peace
Program Five................. wfmu.org...
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Erella:

I once found a box of strange tools. This was before the internet. I found that one was specifically for removing the crystals from (round) watches. It was easy. They would pop on and off. I figure out how to remove the watch hands and painted tiny dancing figures onto the existing watch faces and then reassemble everything. It was a huge thrill. Everyone got watches from thrift shops for christmas gifts that year.
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northguineahills:

That sounds dope, Erella!
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Doug Schulkind:

@Erella
Honestly, I have no memory of how I took apart that watch.
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Lewis:

@Erella - that is soooo cool!
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Webhamster Henry:

This is a honkin' good cut!
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Erella:

This is what the tool looked like.
youtu.be...
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Doug Schulkind:

If you haven't read it, here's a story I wrote for WFMU's blog about sitting at the feet of Yusef during a performance not unlike this one: blog.wfmu.org...
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Listener Gregory:

Sadly, I have to leave to return to what is humorously called the real world. Will catch the ending on the archive. This is great, Doug. Thanks!
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Listener Gregory:

When it comes to Doug, Lateef doesn't fall far from the tree.
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StringOFperils:

My sides are acorn with laughter.
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Doug Schulkind:

Yusef on flute with cello (Kermit Moore) and bass (Bob Cunningham), interpreting Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday."
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Doug Schulkind:

Woop woop, StringOFperils is here!
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Doug Schulkind:

Another killer live set. From Pep's Lounge in Philadelphia, 1964. Many people cite this LP, Live at Pep's, as their favorite Yusef record.
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StringOFperils:

I like your Yusef lovetimepeace, Doug. Nice invention.
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Irene Trudel:

@Doug, what a beautiful remembrance of your meeting Yusef!
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βrian:

20 80-pound bags of 'crete. Ugh. Thank Doug for Yusef.
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Doug Schulkind:

Yusef back on shanai (or you may spell it shennai), the Indian/Pakistani multi-reed oboe-like instrument he adored.
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StringOFperils:

Very cool story Doug. Steinski! Who knew?!
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rw:

Aww, nice story Doug! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm with us.
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rw:

And good morning!
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Mr C:

What a lovely Joel Dorn story. I only knew him a little bit, but man did he leave and breath the music. The Young Philadelphian always..
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Doug Schulkind:

Hello, rw!
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northguineahills:

I'm gonna apply for unemployment, so, thanks ever so much, Doug (will be busy).
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listener Rey:

Great story that validates your love and passion of music. We are blessed that you choose to share with us every week.
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Doug Schulkind:

Yusef takes what is a profound and power compliment to him and turns it into praise of something greater than him, his Ahmadiyya faith. That says it all about who he was.
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StringOFperils:

That really was quite an honour, Doug. Thanks for sharing the emotion of your moment.
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Doug Schulkind:

Yusef on, very unusually... ALTO SAX!
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Brian in UK:

Doug, I wont say that only music can do this but there aint many other things.
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Doug Schulkind:

Blessings to you, you fine son of Philly, Mr C.
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Doug Schulkind:

@Brain in UK
Yes then. That is quite the point.
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Doug Schulkind:

My wonderful radio brother, Uncle Michael, is here to delight you with many sublime recordings on HINKY DINKY TIME. He's up next: wfmu.org...
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Uncle Michael:

Neil 2.0
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Doug Schulkind:

Diamond in the Rough, coming up on HDT!
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StringOFperils:

Better than a pumpkin in the weeds, any day.
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Doug Schulkind:

For an amazing performance from this later funk period, check out the video of Yusef performing "Robot Man" on Norwegian television: yuseflateef.com...
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Irene Trudel:

What a beautiful tribute today! Thank you Doug!
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Uncle Michael:

He's just looking for his ball, SOP.
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David Dichelle:

Thanks for all of this, Doug!
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Doug Schulkind:

The stellar Art Farmer on trumpet here.
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Doug Schulkind:

One of his final recordings, released in 2012, but actually recorded in 2004. Yusef reading poetry along with his own soloing.
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Doug Schulkind:

One last performance. My favorite of favorites...
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Doug Schulkind:

Peak Yusef?
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StringOFperils:

Wow, what a great show. And a loving tribute. Thanks, man!
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Doug Schulkind:

Eric Gale on knee-nobbling guitar.
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Doug Schulkind:

With every note, Yusef was telling us he loved us.
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Brian in UK:

Doug, another ear-opener, thank you.
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WR:

Thank you Doug. All Praises to Yusef Lateef. Seeker and Teller of
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rw:

Nice. Thank you Doug.
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jmd:

Great show, thanks!
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chresti:

Thanks Doug!
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Erella:

Thank you!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Doug & Yusef!
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Doug Schulkind:

Thank you thank you one and all. I am soy happy to have been here with you and Yusef!
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Artie:

Thank you, Doug. That was really great.
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