Yusef Lateef
- Type: Classic Bandleader
- Country: United States
- Born: October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Died: December 23, 2013 in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States
Biography
Yusef Lateef was a Grammy Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist who became a major force in music for over six decades. A virtuoso on tenor saxophone and flute, he was a pioneering figure in the integration of non-Western instrumentation and tonalities into jazz, exploring so-called 'world music' long before the term was common. His landmark albums for labels like #Savoy# and #Impulse!#, including the seminal 'Eastern Sounds', blended hard bop with instruments like the oboe, bassoon, and various Asian and Middle Eastern flutes. He was a key member of *Cannonball Adderley's* sextet in the early 1960s and later won a Grammy for his new-age album 'Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony'.
Genres
Yusef Lateef Discography
- Jazz Mood (1957) - Album - rated 3.99/5
- The Sounds of Yusef (1958) - Album - rated 3.48/5
- Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1958) - Album - rated 3.74/5
- Lateef at Cranbrook (1958) - Album - rated 3.5/5
- Prayer to the East (1958) - Album - rated 3.54/5
- Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (1958) - Album - rated 3.51/5
- Other Sounds (1959) - Album - rated 3.53/5
- The Dreamer (1959) - Album - rated 3.39/5
- The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) - Album - rated 3.97/5
- The Fabric of Jazz (1960) - Album - rated 3.53/5
- Cry! - Tender (1960) - Album - rated 3.58/5
- The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) - Album - rated 3.88/5
- Lost in Sound (1962) - Album - rated 3.28/5
- Into Something (1962) - Album - rated 3.61/5
- Jazz 'Round the World (1964) - Album - rated 3.5/5
- Eastern Sounds (1964) - Album - rated 4.3/5
- 1984 (1965) - Album - rated 3.5/5
- Live at Pep's (1965) - Album - rated 4.29/5
- Psychicemotus (1965) - Album - rated 4.55/5
- A Flat, G Flat and C (1966) - Album - rated 3.73/5
- The Golden Flute (1967) - Album - rated 3.75/5
- The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968) - Album - rated 3.77/5
- Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° (1969) - Album - rated 4.02/5
- The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1970) - Album - rated 3.74/5
- The Gentle Giant (1972) - Album - rated 3.66/5
- Hush 'n' Thunder (1973) - Album - rated 3.61/5
- The Doctor Is In ...And Out (1976) - Album - rated 3.78/5
- Live at Pep's Volume Two (1999) - Album - rated 4.02/5
Members
- The Yusef Lateef Quintet - Member
- Hugh Lawson - Member
- Yusef Lateef - Member
- Oliver Jackson - Member
- Ernie Farrow - Member
- Wilbur Harden - Member
- Super Eight Loop - Member