Yusef Lateef

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Yusef Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for pioneering the integration of non-Western instruments and musical traditions into modern jazz.

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Yusef Lateef canonical 17
The Blue Yusef Lateef 1
Yusef Abdul Lateef 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
human
jazz musician
multi-instrumentalist
music educator
activeYearsEnd 2013
activeYearsStart 1940
associatedAct Art Blakey
Cannonball Adderley
Charles Mingus
Donald Byrd
Eric Dolphy
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award
birthName William Emanuel Huddleston
causeOfDeath prostate cancer
convertedToReligion Islam
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1920-10-09
dateOfDeath 2013-12-23
educatedAt University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wayne State University
employer University of Massachusetts Amherst
ethnicity African-American
fieldOfWork ethnomusicology
music education
fullName Yusef Abdul Lateef
linked to: Yusef Lateef
genre hard bop
jazz
post-bop
world music
hasAcademicDegree Doctorate in Education
instrument bassoon
flute
oboe
shakuhachi
shehnai
tenor saxophone
various non-Western wind instruments
movement world music in jazz
notableFor integration of non-Western instruments into jazz
pioneering world music influences in modern jazz
notableWork Eastern Sounds
Psychicemotus
The Blue Yusef Lateef
linked to: Yusef Lateef

The Centaur and the Phoenix
Yusef Lateef's Detroit
occupation composer
educator
flautist
oboist
saxophonist
university professor
placeOfBirth Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
placeOfDeath Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States
recordLabel Atlantic Records
Impulse! Records
Prestige Records
Savoy Records
religion Islam
residence Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Detroit, Michigan, United States
wrote Several works of fiction and non-fiction on music and spirituality
The Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Music
yearOfReligiousConversion 1948

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Impulse! Records notableArtist Yusef Lateef
Prestige Records notableArtist Yusef Lateef
Louis Hayes associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Joel Dorn collaboratedWith Yusef Lateef
Curtis Fuller associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Riverside Records recordedArtist Yusef Lateef
Barry Harris collaboratedWith Yusef Lateef
Atlantic Jazz series includesWorkBy Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef fullName Yusef Abdul Lateef
linked to: Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef notableWork The Blue Yusef Lateef
linked to: Yusef Lateef
Kenny Barron collaboratedWith Yusef Lateef
Milestone Records releasedAlbumBy Yusef Lateef
Cecil McBee associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Red Holloway associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Reggie Workman associatedWith Yusef Lateef
I Sing the Body Electric features Yusef Lateef
Roy Brooks associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Roy Brooks collaboration performed and recorded with Yusef Lateef
linked to: Yusef Lateef
Rodney Kendrick hasCollaboratedWith Yusef Lateef