Overlooked Yusef Lateef 80s recording reissued by Key System Records

Recorded in 1983, Yusef Lateef's Hikima: Creativity has been reissued by the Key System label run by Jonathan Sklute of Good Records fame.

Here's the scoop from Key System Records... In the early 1980s, famed jazz saxophonist and musical luminary Yusef Lateef traveled to Nigeria as a Senior Research Fellow to study, write, and teach at the Centre For Nigerian Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University. He cut this record with students and local musicians while there; it only got a small local press, and remained virtually unknown by jazz fans and collectors for over 30 years. On Hikima: Creativity, Lateef leads a nonet of African musicians in seven compositions that fuse his deep blues and jazz roots with native Nigerian instruments, drums and chants. The sounds stretch from meditative and melancholic to urgent and unrelenting. A singular recording impossible to classify or box in.  Recordings licensed from the family of the late Yusef Lateef. Remastered by Jessica Thompson. Pressed at RTI; Printed cardboard sleeve done at Dorado. Initial edition of 800 copies. Silk screen sleeve version limited to 100 copies. Listen below.