Yusef Lateef - Jazz 'Round the World (2018)

Yusef Lateef's first Impulse! date Jazz 'Round the World anticipates the emerging vogue for global music with a series of impassioned interpretations of traditional ethnic folk songs. Lateef's unerring navigation of far-flung melodies and rhythms is matched by his instrumental prowess. In addition to tenor saxophone and flute, he plays the bassoon and the oboe, but nothing about the album smacks of novelty or dilettantism. Supported by an exemplary band including trumpeter Richard Williams, pianist Hugh Lawson, bassist Ernie Farrow, and drummer Lex Humphries, Lateef proves that while music may indeed reign as the universal language, some speakers are far more fluent and eloquent than others