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My response is way off shakuhachi-issues --- but ---
man does this open up deep memory traces of containing life-changing
musical experiences with Yousef.
I was 14 years old in 1964, wanted to learn to play jazz, but living in
Dayton, OH (seriously segregated then and now), my mother asked me what I
wanted for my birthday and I said "albums by black jazz players" - she had
previously only bought me stuff by Brubeck and Mulligan etc. She went
alone to the west side of town and bought me my first LP by Trane and
Yousef - I memorized every slow blusey track on Yousef's records - even the
tracks that sounded non-Western. (Coltrane was just too tough to
imitate.) If it wasn't for Yousef, I'm sure that my recent interest in
shakuhachi (now that I'm 50 years old) would never have taken root in such
a profound and subtle way. Thank you Yousef.
Dan Gutwein
dfgutw@prodigy.net
At 11:12 AM 9/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>Back in my old DJ days (it's been over 30 years!) I remember playing a
>>record (it was all vinyl back in those days ;*)> ) by Yousef Lateef in which
>>he played some kind of Chinese horn... anyone have any idea what this was??
>
>Which record are you referring to as he has released so much since the
>50's!? I have recently been doing a rather intensive study of Dr. Lateef's
>music and dragging some of my shakuhachi students along the trail with me.
>On Eastern Sounds, a brilliant Lateef record from 1961 he is playing a
>Chinese stone flute that sounds gorgeous.
>
>You can see more information about him at www.yuseflateef.com
>He is now in his 80's, still a full professor at U. Massachusets and still
>composing, performing and touring intensively! He will actually be on the
>SanFrancisco Jazz festival in the next month or 2 which i am looking
>forward to.
>
>There is a very close connection between Lateef and Coltrane!! It was
>Lateef who turned Coltrane onto many forms of "world music" back in the
>late 50's which set Trane off in a very different direction away from
>bebop and into modal forms and messing with Arabic and other "eastern"
>scales/modes (Bruno Deschenes is going to jump on me for using the term,
>scales here, LOL).
>
>Among many incredible publications that Dr Lateef has put out, there are 2
>i highly recomend for shakuhachi players who are interested in thinking
>outside of the traditional shakuhachi box. One is a huge book called "a
>repository of scales and melodic patterns" which is an intensve study of
>different scales and modes from around the world. The other is a book
>called "124 duets for treble clef instruments" and many of those duets
>sound wonderful on shakuhachi.
>My more advanced students are using these books along with their honkyoku
>and sankyoku studies.
>
>I have recently added a couple of Lateef compositions to my solo concert
>repetoire. Recently i have come to realize he is one of the most
>important American composers, performers, educators and theorists of our time.
>
>phil
>
>--
>Philip Gelb
>phil@philipgelb.com
>http://www.philipgelb.com
>____________________________________________________
>
Dan Gutwein, Associate Professor
Department of Music
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23185-8795
office: (757) 221-1077, cell: (240) 481-2787
fax. (757) 221-3171, email: dfgutw@wm.edu or dfgutw@prodigy.net
homepage - http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein
Introduction to Electro-acoustic Music (MUS181) -
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/mus181.htm
Shakuhachi Links by Category -
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/Shakuhachi/links.htm
Zen Flute for Beginners -
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/Shakuhachi/WMshakuhachi.htm
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My response is way off shakuhachi-issues --- but ---<br>
man does this open up deep memory traces of containing life-changing
musical experiences with Yousef.<br>
I was 14 years old in 1964, wanted to learn to play jazz, but living in
Dayton, OH (seriously segregated then and now), my mother asked me
what I wanted for my birthday and I said "albums by black jazz
players" - she had previously only bought me stuff by Brubeck and
Mulligan etc. She went alone to the west side of town and bought me
my first LP by Trane and Yousef - I memorized every slow blusey track on
Yousef's records - even the tracks that sounded non-Western.
(Coltrane was just too tough to imitate.) If it wasn't for Yousef,
I'm sure that my recent interest in shakuhachi (now that I'm 50 years
old) would never have taken root in such a profound and subtle way. Thank
you Yousef. <br><br>
Dan Gutwein<br>
dfgutw@prodigy.net<br><br>
At 11:12 AM 9/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Back
in my old DJ days (it's been over 30 years!) I remember playing a<br>
record (it was all vinyl back in those days ;*)> ) by Yousef Lateef in
which<br>
he played some kind of Chinese horn... anyone have any idea what this
was??</blockquote><br>
Which record are you referring to as he has released so much since the
50's!? I have recently been doing a rather intensive study of Dr.
Lateef's music and dragging some of my shakuhachi students along the
trail with me.<br>
On Eastern Sounds, a brilliant Lateef record from 1961 he is playing a
Chinese stone flute that sounds gorgeous.<br><br>
You can see more information about him at
<a href="http://www.yuseflateef.com/" eudora="autourl">www.yuseflateef.com</a><br>
He is now in his 80's, still a full professor at U. Massachusets and
still composing, performing and touring intensively! He will actually be
on the SanFrancisco Jazz festival in the next month or 2 which i am
looking forward to.<br><br>
There is a very close connection between Lateef and Coltrane!! It was
Lateef who turned Coltrane onto many forms of "world music"
back in the late 50's which set Trane off in a very different direction
away from bebop and into modal forms and messing with Arabic and other
"eastern" scales/modes (Bruno Deschenes is going to jump on me
for using the term, scales here, LOL).<br><br>
Among many incredible publications that Dr Lateef has put out, there are
2 i highly recomend for shakuhachi players who are interested in thinking
outside of the traditional shakuhachi box. One is a huge book called
"a repository of scales and melodic patterns" which is an
intensve study of different scales and modes from around the world. The
other is a book called "124 duets for treble clef instruments"
and many of those duets sound wonderful on shakuhachi.<br>
My more advanced students are using these books along with their honkyoku
and sankyoku studies.<br><br>
I have recently added a couple of Lateef compositions to my solo concert
repetoire. Recently i have come to realize he is one of the most
important American composers, performers, educators and theorists of our
time.<br><br>
phil<br><br>
-- <br>
Philip Gelb<br>
phil@philipgelb.com<br>
<a href="http://www.philipgelb.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.philipgelb.com><br>
____________________________________________________<br>
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Dan Gutwein,<b> </b><font size=2>Associate Professor<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000084">Department of
Music <br>
College of William and Mary <br>
Williamsburg, VA 23185-8795 <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">office:</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000084">
(757) 221-1077, cell: (240) 481-2787<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">fax.</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000084">
(757) 221-3171,
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">email:</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000084">
dfgutw@wm.edu or dfgutw@prodigy.net<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2><i>homepage -
</i><a href="http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein" eudora="autourl">http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein></font>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2><i>Introduction to
Electro-acoustic Music (MUS181) -
</i><a href="http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/mus181.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/mus181.htm><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>Shakuhachi Links by
Category</i> -
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Zen Flute for Beginners</b> - </i></font><a href="http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/Shakuhachi/WMshakuhachi.htm" eudora="autourl"><font face="Times New Roman, Times">http://www.wm.edu/CAS/music/gutwein/Shakuhachi/WMshakuhachi.htm></font></html>