Yusef Lateef



Yusef Lateef, born William Emanuel Huddleston (Chattanooga (Tennessee), October 9, 1920 – december 23, Shutesbury, 2013) was an American jazz musician,multi-instrumentalist, composer, teacher and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.

In addition to the tenor saxophone and the flute, oboe and Lateef played the clarinet, and further instruments particularly in the music world, such as the bamboo flute,shanai, shofar, the xun, argul, sarewa, and the koto. He was known for his innovative blend of jazz with Oriental music.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[Edit] == In 1925 he moved with his family to Detroit, and there he received contact with some (future) for men from the jazz music, including Milt Jackson, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, the brothers Jones (Hank, Thad and Elvin), Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, Lucky Thompson and Matthew Rucker. Already during his high school years he played tenor saxophone, and at the age of 18, he began performing with swing bands led by Hartley Toots, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Herbie Fields and Lucky Millender. In 1949, he was invited to play with Dizzy Gillespie.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 as band leader
 * 2.2 as an accompanist
 * 3 external links

In 1950 he returned to Detroit, where he studied composition and flute at Wayne State University. He converted to islam and took the name Yusef Lateef. From 1955-1959 he led a Quintet with Curtis Fuller, Hugh Lawson, Louis Hayes and Ernie Farrell.

Yusef made recordings under his own name from 1956 for Savoy Records, and has since released over 100 recordings at labels like Prestige, Riverside, Impulse, Atlanticand his own label YAL. Except under own name has occurred in the 1960s and Lateef recordings made with the ensembles of Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.

In addition to tenor saxophone and flute, also played oboe and bassoon Lateef and he made use of a number of instruments that are used in particular in the world music such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, argul, sarewa, and koto.

Until his death on 23 december 2013 Lateef remained active on stage and in the studio. ==Discography[Edit] == ===As band leader[Edit] === ===As an accompanist[Edit] === With Donald Byrd
 * Jazz for the Thinker (Savoy, 1957)
 * Jazz Mood (Savoy, 1957)
 * Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (Verve, 1957)
 * Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (Savoy, 1957)
 * Prayer to the East (Savoy, 1957)
 * The Sounds of Yusef (Prestige, 1957)
 * Other Sounds (New Jazz, 1957)
 * Lateef at Cranbrook (Argo, 1958)
 * The Dreamer (Savoy, 1959)
 * The Fabric of Jazz (Savoy, 1959)
 * Cry!-Tender (New Jazz, 1959)
 * The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (Riverside, 1960)
 * The Centaur and the Phoenix (Riverside, 1960)
 * Lost in Sound (Charlie Parker, 1961)
 * Eastern Sounds (1961, Moodsville)
 * Into Something (New Jazz, 1961)
 * Jazz ' Round the World (Impulse!, 1963)
 * Live at PEP's (Impulse!, 1964)
 * 1984 (Impulse!, 1965)
 * Psychicemotus (Impulse!, 1965)
 * A Flat, G Flat and C (Impulse!, 1966)
 * The Golden Flute (Impulse!, 1966)
 * The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1967)
 * The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Atlantic, 1969)
 * The Diverse Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1969)
 * Suite 16 (Atlantic, 1970)
 * The Gentle Giant (Atlantic, 1971)
 * Hush 'n' Thunder (Atlantic, 1972)
 * Part of the Search (Atlantic, 1973)
 * 10 Years Hence (Atlantic, 1974)
 * The Doctor is In ... and Out (Atlantic, 1976)
 * Autophysiopsychic (1977, CTI Records)
 * In a Temple Garden (1979, CTI Records)
 * Yusef Lateef in Nigeria (Landmark, 1983)
 * Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (Atlantic, 1987)
 * Concerto for Yusef Lateef (Atlantic, 1988)
 * Nocturnes (Atlantic, 1989)
 * Meditations (Atlantic, 1990)
 * Yusef Lateef's Encounters (Atlantic, 1991)
 * Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman (Yal, 1992)
 * Heart Vision (Yal, 1992)
 * Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads (Yal, 1993)
 * Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp (Yal, 1993)
 * Woodwinds (Yal, 1993)
 * The World at Peace (1997)
 * Beyond the Sky (2000)
 * Go: Organic Orchestra: In the Garden (2003)
 * The Doctor is In and Out (2005)
 * Nocturnes (2005)
 * The Complete Yusef Lateef (2005)
 * The Blue Yusef Lateef (2005)
 * With Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo Influence (2005)
 * 10 Years Hence (2008)
 * Roots Run Deep (2012, Rogue Art)

With Art Farmer
 * Byrd Jazz (Transition, 1955)-also released as First Flight (Delmark)

With Curtis Fuller
 * Something You Got (CTI, 1977)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Grant Green
 * Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)
 * Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick, 1960)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Cannonball Adderley
 * Grant stand (1961; Blue Note)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Leon Redbone
 * The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962; Riverside)
 * Cannonball in Europe! (1962; Riverside)
 * Jazz Workshop Revisited (1962; Riverside)
 * Autumn Leaves (1963; Riverside)
 * Nippon Soul (1963; Riverside)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Randy Weston
 * Double Time on the track "Mississippi Delta Blues" (1976; Warner Bros. Records)


 * Uhuru Africa (Roulette, 1960)