Year/Genre: 1974 Jazz / World Fusion

Condition: Plays awesome, cover has jacket wear

Description: Detroit-born Yusef Lateef was a pioneer in blending jazz with non-Western traditions, introducing instruments like the shenai and bamboo flute into his recordings. Blues for the Orient (1974) reflects his role in expanding the boundaries of jazz during a decade when cross-cultural experimentation was gaining momentum. A leading figure in world fusion, Lateef’s influence reached well beyond the genre, shaping how future musicians approached global sounds within improvisational music.