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Yusef Lateef
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Albums
Atlantic Jazz Legends
2026 · Album
Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (Live at the Jazz Showcase, June 1975)
2026 · Album
Jazz Workshop (Live Boston '71)
2026 · Album
Golden Flower (Live in Sweden)
2025 · Album
The Eclectic Universe of Yusef Lateef
2025 · Album
Love and Humoor (Live)
2024 · Album
On Prestige
2024 · Album
Soul Blues
2024 · Album
Davenport Jazz Festival '71 (Live The Netherlands)
2023 · Album
The Sounds of Yusef
2023 · Album
Jazz for the Thinker (Remastered)
2023 · Album
Jazz for the Thinker
2023 · Album
Jazz for the Thinker
2023 · Album
Other Sounds
2023 · Album
Other Sounds (Remastered)
2023 · Album
Other Sounds
2023 · Album
Purple Flower
2023 · Album
Soul Blues
2023 · Album
The Prestige & Impulse Collection
2023 · Album
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Four Classic Albums (Jazz for the Thinker / Eastern Sounds / Other Sounds / Into Something) [Remastered]
2023 · Album
Eastern Sounds.....And Other Sounds! (Remastered)
2023 · Album
La Fleur (Avignon '72)
2023 · Album
Yusef Lateef - Vintage Sounds
2021 · Album
Salt Water Blues - Yusef Lateef
2021 · Album
Singles & EPs
Compilations
Appears on
Men At Work - with Kenny Barron (Early Recordings as Sideman 1960 - 1963)
Bill Barron
The Greatest Jazz Albums of 1957, Vol. 8
Ben Webster
Something You Got (with Yusef Lateef & David Matthews' Big Band)
Art Farmer
Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
Live at the Olympia - June 27, 2012 (Live)
Ahmad Jamal
Voice Prints
Adam Rudolph
Flutin' and Fluglin'
Clark Terry
Gettin' It Together
Curtis Fuller
Sax Masters
Lester Young
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About
Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shehnai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. Peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician "played world music before world music had a name".
Lateef's books included two novellas titled A Night in the Garden of Love and Another Avenue, the short story collections Spheres and Rain Shapes, and his autobiography, The Gentle Giant, written in collaboration with Herb Boyd. Along with his record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, a music publishing company. He published his own work through Fana, including Yusef Lateef's Flute Book of the Blues and many of his orchestral compositions.