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Yusef Lateef had been around the Jazz scene for quite a while playing and recording under his own name since 1957. He moved to New York with his family in 1960 and worked with Charles Mingus among others but it wasn't until the end of 1961 when he joined the group led by alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and made it a sextet that Lateef was really put on the Jazz map.He remained with the Adderley organization until 1964 when he formed this quintet heard tonight. It's a live recording from a Philadelphia Jazz club called "Pep's Musical Bar". Lateef is featured on tenor saxophone, flute and oboe and a variety of exotic instruments like the bamboo flute, the shenai, and the argol. His cohorts are Richard Williams on trumpet, a young up and coming Mike Nock on piano, Ernie Farrow on bass and the legendary James Black on drums. A whole variety of tunes showing the range of this band are heard before an appreciative audience on the evening of June 29, 1964. Yusef Lateef is still going strong at 92, performing and lecturing throughout the world.Live at Pep's cooks!