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The Universal Quartet
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Two mighty forces in Danish jazz, trumpet player Kasper Tranberg and drummer Kresten Osgood, are releasing a totally fresh, new album July 2009, featuring the legendary multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef.
Yusef Lateef is unique in the history of jazz. He had his recording debut in 1949 on a session with Dizzy Gillespie and has gone on to play with many of the heaviest innovators in jazz – like Count Basie, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Zawinul and Art Blakey, to name a few. Yet Lateef is an important innovator himself. He is recognized as one of the best improvisers on the flute, while his saxophone playing is deeply original and respected throughout the world. Today Yusef Lateef is 89 years old and playing with unabated strength and creativity, although – due to his exclusiveness – he has not recorded since the year 2000!
Tranberg and Osgood, however, have succeeded where all others have failed – by awakening Yusef’s interest in recording by posing a musical challenge. Thus the musical point of departure for this record is the relation between the sound of wood, skin and metal – a form of instrumentation as old as mankind. It is in the meeting between these primeval sounds that wind players Lateef and Tranberg on the one side and percussionists Osgood and Adam Rudolph on the other attempt to create a timeless sound that portrays both Man’s natural limitations as well as the notion that music is a supernatural entity which enables us human beings to rise above our inbred inhibitions. All four musicians have composed new material for the recording.
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ARTISTS
Kasper Tranderg (trumpet); Yusef Lateef (flute, oboe, tenor sax, piano, vocal); Adam Rudolph (congos, sintir, flute, drums); Kresten Osgood (drums, percussion) |
TRACKS
1. Clustonics
2. Gron Galakse
3. 47th Street Breakdown
4. Obo River
5. Before Until After
6. Masara #5
7. Nine Dreams
8. Andromeda
9. Clustigous
10. Huyacaya
11. Nine Hearts
12. Sky Magenta
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