Yusef Lateef

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Yusef Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator known for pioneering the integration of non-Western instruments and musical traditions into modern jazz.

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instanceOf composer
human
jazz musician
multi-instrumentalist
music educator
activeYearsEnd 2013
activeYearsStart 1940
associatedAct Art Blakey NERFINISHED
Cannonball Adderley NERFINISHED
Charles Mingus NERFINISHED
Donald Byrd NERFINISHED
Eric Dolphy NERFINISHED
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best New Age Album NERFINISHED
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award NERFINISHED
birthName William Emanuel Huddleston NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath prostate cancer
convertedToReligion Islam NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1920-10-09
dateOfDeath 2013-12-23
educatedAt University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED
Wayne State University NERFINISHED
employer University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED
ethnicity African-American
fieldOfWork ethnomusicology
music education
fullName Yusef Abdul Lateef NERFINISHED
genre hard bop
jazz
post-bop
world music
hasAcademicDegree Doctorate in Education
instrument bassoon
flute
oboe
shakuhachi NERFINISHED
shehnai
tenor saxophone
various non-Western wind instruments
movement world music in jazz
notableFor integration of non-Western instruments into jazz
pioneering world music influences in modern jazz
notableWork Eastern Sounds NERFINISHED
Psychicemotus NERFINISHED
The Blue Yusef Lateef NERFINISHED
The Centaur and the Phoenix NERFINISHED
Yusef Lateef's Detroit NERFINISHED
occupation composer
educator
flautist
oboist
saxophonist
university professor
placeOfBirth Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Shutesbury, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
recordLabel Atlantic Records
Impulse! Records NERFINISHED
Prestige Records NERFINISHED
Savoy Records NERFINISHED
religion Islam
residence Amherst, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED
wrote Several works of fiction and non-fiction on music and spirituality
The Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns NERFINISHED
Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Music NERFINISHED
yearOfReligiousConversion 1948

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Impulse! Records notableArtist Yusef Lateef
Prestige Records notableArtist Yusef Lateef
Louis Hayes associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Joel Dorn collaboratedWith Yusef Lateef
Curtis Fuller associatedAct Yusef Lateef
Riverside Records recordedArtist Yusef Lateef