Two mighty forces in Danish jazz, trumpet player Kasper Tranberg and drummer Kresten Osgood, are releasing a totally fresh, new album July 2009, featuring the legendary multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef.

Yusef Lateef is unique in the history of jazz. He had his recording debut in 1949 on a session
with Dizzy Gillespie and has gone on to play with many of the heaviest innovators in jazz – like
Count Basie, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Zawinul and Art Blakey,
to name a few. Yet Lateef is an important innovator himself. He is recognized as one of the best
improvisers on the flute, while his saxophone playing is deeply original and respected throughout
the world. Today Yusef Lateef is 89 years old and playing with unabated strength and creativity,
although – due to his exclusiveness – he has not recorded since the year 2000!

Tranberg and Osgood, however, have succeeded where all others have failed – by awakening
Yusef’s interest in recording by posing a musical challenge. Thus the musical point of departure
for this record is the relation between the sound of wood, skin and metal – a form of
instrumentation as old as mankind. It is in the meeting between these primeval sounds that wind
players Lateef and Tranberg on the one side and percussionists Osgood and Rudolph on the
other attempt to create a timeless sound that portrays both Man’s natural limitations as well as
the notion that music is a supernatural entity which enables us human beings to rise above our
inbred inhibitions. All four musicians have composed new material for the recording. The album is coming out on
Blackout Music – a completely extraordinary record release in Danish jazz.