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Yusef Lateef
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American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (1920–2013)
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Yusef Lateef, born William Emanuel Huddleston in 1920 in Chattanooga, was an American composer, oboist, university teacher, and non-fiction writer. A male African American, he was educated at Wayne State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Manhattan School of Music. His professional career began in 1955, and he worked as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hampshire College, and Amherst College. He was a practitioner of Islam and the Ahmadiyya worldview.
Lateef played the saxophone, oboe, and flute, primarily within the jazz genre. He recorded for Prestige, Atlantic Records, and Savoy Records. His written works include *Every Village Has a Song*, *Repository of scales and melodic patterns*, *Something else; writings of the Yusef Lateef Quartet*, *Flute book of the blues*, and *Razzaq and Farida*. He died of prostate cancer in Shutesbury, Asbury, in 2013.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Every Village Has a Song
- Repository of scales and melodic patterns
- Something else; writings of the Yusef Lateef Quartet
- Flute book of the blues
- Razzaq and Farida
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1920
- Active to
- 2013
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 539,856
- Total plays
- 5,828,772
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Dr. Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator and a renowned spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to Islam in 1950. Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but his family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1925. Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for his innovative blending of jazz with Eastern music. <a href="ht
Key facts
- Also known as
- Yusef Lateef
- Born
- William Emanuel Huddleston , ( 1920-10-09 ) October 9, 1920, Chattanooga, Tennessee , U.S.
- Died
- December 23, 2013 (2013-12-23) (aged 93), Shutesbury, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Genres
- New-age , jazz , post-bop , jazz fusion , swing , hard bop , third stream , world music
- Occupations
- Musician, composer, educator, spokesman, author
- Instruments
- Tenor saxophone , flute , oboe , bassoon , bamboo flute , shehnai , shofar , arghul , koto , piano , vocals .
- Years active
- 1938–2013
- Labels
- Savoy , Prestige , Verve , Riverside , Impulse , Atlantic , CTI , YAL
- Formerly of
- Cannonball Adderley band
- Website
- yuseflateef .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Welcome to the Official Website of Dr. Yusef A. Lateef
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emanuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chattanooga
- Place of death
- Asbury
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Educated at
- Manhattan School of Music
- Employer
- Amherst College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Ahmadiyya
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Field of work
- jazz
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- flute
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Official website
- www.yuseflateef.com
- Image
- Yusef Lateef.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Yusef Lateef
- date of birth
- 1920-10-09
- date of death
- 2013-12-23
- birth name
- William Emanuel Huddleston
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- religious name
- Yusef Abdul Lateef
- pseudonym
- Yusef Lateef
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yusef Lateef” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.