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Yusef Lateef was born on October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He was a composer, known for Selma (2014), Lenny Cooke (2013) and Constellation (2005).
Yusef Lateef, who died on Monday after a bout with prostate cancer, was a devout Muslim who did not like his music to be called jazz because.
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Multi-Instrumentalist Yusef Lateef Passes Away Aged 93

Multi-instrumentalist and jazz pioneer Yusef Lateef has passed away at the age of 93.

The Grammy Award-winner died this morning (Monday, December 23) at his home in Shutesbury, MA. He had been battling prostate cancer and it appears he has sadly succumbed to the disease. The Daily Hampshire Gazette confirms he passed away peacefully with his loved ones around him.

Although Lateef established himself as an educator early in life, he is best known for his contributions to world music and his innovative fusion of American Jazz with traditional African rhythms, Indian raga, and eastern Arabic styles of music. Although you were most likely to see him with a flute or a saxophone, he also played the oboe and a countless number of more exotic instruments, including the Xun (Chinese vessel flute), the bamboo flute, and the Japanese koto.

He has performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, and Art Farmer; and received many accolades for his music. He was named an NEA Ja

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posted by Robert J. Carmack Grammy Award-winning, Tennessee-born jazz musician/composer Yusef Lateef died recently at his home in Shutesbury, Mass.The saxophonist was raised in Detroit and was 93 when he died of age-related complications Monday, December 23. According to his family, he passed peacefully at home.

I first experienced Yusef Lateef’s music as a young teenager in the early 60s while listening to older friends’s albums.Finally getting to see him live in 1968 at the famous jazz club in Los Angeles,The Lighthouse. Seeing Yusef live also introduced me to a young pianist from Philly, Kenny Barron..In addition, I learned that Ernie Farrow bassist, was Alice Coltrane’s brother. I loved his approach to the blues on all his instruments & recordings… he always played the blues weaved through his music. There was only one YUSEF! we may never see another musician like him ever. “He considered Detroit his home — an incubator for wonderful musicians,” Lateef’s wife, Ayesha, told the Detroit News. “He expanded into t

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YusefLateef, who died on Monday after a bout with prostate cancer, was a devout Muslim who did not like his music to be called jazz because of the supposed indecent origins and connotations of the word (although those origins are still debated). He preferred the self-coined phrase "autophysiopsychic music." Furthermore, his music encompassed an impressively broad range of styles, and the only Grammy he won was in the New Age category -- for a recording of a symphony. Think about those things amid the flood of Lateef obituaries with "jazz" in the headline.

That said, certainly Lateef's own musical origins indisputably revolved around jazz. Growing up in Detroit, a highly fertile musical environment in the 1930s and beyond, Lateef got his first instrument, an $80 Martin alto sax, at age 18. Within a year he was on the road with the 13 Spirits of Swing (arrangements by Milt Buckner).A Detroit friend, tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson, helped Lateef get work with Lucky Millinder in 1946, and though the man he was brought in to replace ended up not leaving the band, it brought Lateef t