Yusef Lateef |
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 Lateef in a 2007 performance |
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| Birth name | William Emanuel Huddleston |
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| Also known as | Yusef Lateef |
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| Born | (1920-10-09)October 9, 1920
Chattanooga, Tennessee
United States |
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| Died | December 23, 2013(2013-12-23) (aged 93)
Shutesbury, Massachusetts
United States |
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| Genres | New Age music, jazz, post-bop, jazz fusion, swing, hard bop, third stream, autophysiopsychic music, world music |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, educator, spokesman, author |
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| Instruments | Tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, bassoon, bamboo flute, shehnai, shofar, arghul, koto |
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| Years active | 1957 – 2013 |
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| Labels | Savoy, Prestige, Verve, Riverside, Impulse, Atlantic, CTI, YAL Records |
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| Website | www.yuseflateef.com |
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Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator. He won a Grammy Award in 1987.
Lateef mainly played the tenor saxophone and flute. He also played oboe and bassoon. He is known for his innovative blending of jazz with "Eastern" music.
He became a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.
Lateef died at the age of 93 in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. He had suffered from prostate cancer.[1]
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