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Yusef Lateef's performance in Atlantis Lullaby is a masterclass in communication and demonstration of synergy. In this previously unreleased performance recorded in Avignon, France in 1972, Lateef, on ...
Jazz Legend Yusef Lateef Dies at 93. The Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist was known for his fusion of jazz and Eastern music. ... PHOTOS: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2013.
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, file photo, jazz flutist Yusef Lateef discusses his music in the Jazz Talk Tent at Hart Plaza at the Detroit International Jazz Festival in Detroit.
Yusef Lateef, the legendary Detroit-bred multi-instrumentalist and composer who died in 2013 at the age of 93, was known for the breathtaking diversity of his accomplishments. He had a brawny ...
Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. He was 93.
David McIntyre, left, and Yusef Lateef, both in the bucket, and Ivan Kende, on the ground. The Blade/Jetta Fraser Buy This Image UpTown Green mural wall and park before development. Handout. Not ...
A History Of Phone Calls With Yusef Lateef : A Blog Supreme The late jazz multi-instrumentalist, a bluesy experimentalist, was known for his soulful, internationally flavored music. He died Monday ...
Yusef Lateef began his career by playing jazz — but that was over 65 years ago. Today, you can't put a label on him. NPR's Roy Hurst looks at one of the most adventurous musicians living.
DETROIT (WWJ) - Jazz artists Miles Davis to Wes Montgomery and present day performers from Boney James to Kenny G have all been influenced by Yusef Lateef. Hugh Smith owner of Baker's Keyboard ...
It was billed as a world premiere, but there wasn`t a fresh idea to be heard in Yusef Lateef`s Double Concerto No. 2 on Monday evening at the Ravinia Festival. Lateef, a pioneering multi-instrument… ...
A collector's edition reissue of Yusef Lateef's groundbreaking 1962 album "Eastern Sounds" is a musical journey around the world.