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	Yusef Lateef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920) is an American jazz musician.
		Lateef was a proficient saxophonist by his graduation from high school at age 18, at which point he launched his professional career and began touring with a number of swing bands.
		In 1993, Lateef was commissioned by the WDR Radio Orchestra to compose The African American Epic Suite, a four part work for orchestra and quartet based on themes of slavery and disfranchisement in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yusef_Lateef (616 words)

	CMT.com : Yusef Lateef : Biography
		Yusef Lateef has long had an inquisitive spirit and he was never just a bop or hard bop soloist.
		Lateef played "world music" before it had a name and his output was much more creative than much of the pop and folk music that passes under that label in the 1990s.
		Yusef Lateef grew up in Detroit and began on tenor when he was 17.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/lateef_yusef/bio.jhtml (388 words)

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		Lateef was already proficient on tenor saxophone while in high school, and at the age of 18 began touring professionally with swing bands led by Hartley Toots, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Herbie Fields and eventually Lucky Millender.
		Lateef’s first major work for large orchestra was his Blues Suite, also known as "Suite 16," premiered in 1969 by the Augusta, and recorded by the WDR Orchestra in Cologne.
		Lateef is universally acknowledged as one of the great living masters and innovators in the African American tradition of autophysiopsychic music — that which comes from one’s spiritual, physical and emotional self.
	www.indiejazz.com /ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistID=48 (786 words)

	Yusef Lateef - Impulse! Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yusef Lateef is a Grammy Award-winning composer, performer, recording artist, author, educator and philosopher who has been a major force on the international musical scene for more than six decades.
		Yusef first began recording under his own name in 1956 for Savoy Records, and has since made more than 100 recordings as a leader for the Savoy, Prestige, Contemporary, Impulse, Atlantic and YAL labels.
		Lateef’s first major work for large orchestra was his Blues Suite, also known as "Suite 16," premiered in 1969 by the Augusta, GA Symphony Orchestra, performed in 1970 with his hometown Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, and recorded by the WDR Orchestra in Cologne.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /impulse/artist.asp?aid=2796 (1034 words)

	Musical tribute planned in honor of Yusef Lateef
		In tribute to Lateef the teacher, the concert will feature performances by a number of his former students, who will be joined by their mentor and his ensemble.
		Lateef's string of Impulse recordings in the mid-1960s are considered among the finest of his career.
		Lateef was a senior research fellow from 1981-85 at the Center for Nigerian Cultural Studies at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, where he did research into the Fulani flute.
	www.umass.edu /pubaffs/publications/chronicle/archives/02/09-13/lateef.htm (608 words)

	Beyond The Sky - Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph
		Among all the things the composed and performed music of Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph inspire are the limitless vistas of freedom for the listener and for those writers foolhardy enough to interpret it.
		Lateef is Orpheus/Horus beckoning the sun with his golden flute of powerful tranquility, inviting the 21 rays of Amen-Ra to bless his band with an eternal wind of wonder.
		Lateef tenderly recalls a princess of life and love, how she gracefully moved among the men of the mbanjo and invoking cries of "jamil," the beautiful one.
	www.metarecords.com /btsky.html (811 words)

	Amazon.com: Eastern Sounds: Music: Yusef Lateef (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yusef Lateef's Eastern Sounds is a classic album from the 1960's that was a firm favourite with both jazz fans and flower children.
		Lateef is able to evoke emotion from each instrument he plays and the ballads are some of the most soulful and beautifully played to be found anywhere.
		Yusef's ability to offer a perfectly executed musical note, one that resonates to the depths of your soul, is in itself evidence of the Creator's handiwork.
	www.amazon.com /Eastern-Sounds-Yusef-Lateef/dp/B000000YSL (1114 words)

	NYPL, Video Gallery Cataloging Data: Yusef Lateef
		Lateef believes that jazz emerged throughout the US; the word "jazz" is ambiguous, a misnomer and, by some definitions, demeaning.
		Biography/History Yusef Lateef is a musician, composer and educator.
		It was Lateef's use of woodwind instruments, most notably flute and oboe, which gained him recognition for his composition and use of Asian, African and Middle Eastern rhythms.
	www.nypl.org /research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/ylcat.htm (731 words)

	Yusef Lateef: Roots & Routes
		Yusef Lateef is one of the first practitioners of “our music” to embrace “the other”, those peoples and cultures far removed geographically and often ideologically from the sounds and sensibilities of North America.
		Lateef's autobiography The Gentle Giant, co-written with Herb Boyd, is due for release within the year and he is excited about his upcoming gig in Manhattan: “I feel honored by being asked to participate.
		Lateef's interest in African music was in part stimulated by a four-year research fellowship at the University of Ahmadu Bello in Zaria, Nigeria from 1981 to 1984.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=20067 (1624 words)

	Yusef Lateef - Jazzcorner's Speakeasy
		Yusef Lateef is an artist in the purest form of the word.
		YUSEF LATEEF: I did research there at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria into the Fulani flute, which is called the sarewa.
		YUSEF LATEEF: Well, the value of thinking, of original expression if you will, utilizing that which is in the environment, like the bamboo flutes for example.
	jazzcornertalk.com /speakeasy/showthread.php?t=9389 (3630 words)

	Yusef Lateef - About Yusef
		Yusef A. Lateef was born William Emanuel Huddleston on October 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Detroit in 1925.
		Returning to New York in 1960, Yusef undertook further studies in flute with Harold Jones and John Wummer at the Manhattan School of Music, from which he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music in 1969 and his Master’s Degree in Music Education in 1970.
		Dr. Lateef’s first major work for large orchestra was his Blues Suite, also known as "Suite 16," premiered in 1969 by the Augusta, GA Symphony Orchestra, performed in 1970 with his hometown Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, and recorded by the WDR Orchestra in Cologne.
	www.yuseflateef.com /AboutYusef.html (990 words)

	Hear how he grows (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On those tunes, Lateef served up an eclectic stew of Third World instruments with weird configurations and strange-sounding names (earthboard, argol, rabat, your guess is as good as mine); Oriental scales; tricky time signatures; "non-musical" squeaks, scrapes, puffs and squawks, produced in part by a pop bottle and a balloon.
		Lateef ended his Detroit stay in 1960 after gigging with all the people and in all the places on that scene, doing exemplary and inspiring work.
		As with Suite 16, the concentration on Yusef Lateef in Nigeria is on tenor and flute figures over rhythmic patterns, this time in the form of vocal chants, multirhythms and drones.
	www.metrotimes.com /19/48/Features/artHear.htm (1062 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Eastern Sounds: Remastered: Music: Yusef Lateef (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lateef's experiments are quite successful on this recording, even though the album's conception is somewhat stymied by his mainstream jazz roots.
		Yusef Lateef's Eastern Sounds is a classic album from the Sixties that was a firm favourite with both jazz fans and flower children.
		Lateef plays a variety of reed instruments backed by a traditional rhythm section of piano, bass and drums.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Eastern-Sounds-Remastered-Yusef-Lateef/dp/B00004XO6V (519 words)

	The History of Jazz Music. Yusef Lateef: biography, discography, review, links
		Detroit-raised flutist, oboe player and tenor saxophonist Bill "Yusef Lateef" Huddleston (1920), who had briefly played with Dizzy Gillespie (1949-50), converted to Islam in the 1950s (as was fashionable in those days) and moved to New York in 1959 to study flute.
		Lateef's lyrical post-bop melodies were beginning to migrate into a dimension beyond jazz music.
		Metamorphosis (december 1993) was a summa of Lateef's styles, particularly the longer Metamorphosis and Biography of a Thought.
	www.scaruffi.com /jazz/lateef.html (417 words)

	lateef & weston concert
		Since the 1950s, research scholar and composer/performer Dr. Yusef Lateef has been a pioneer in the multicultural expression of "autophysiopsychic" music - "coming from the physical, spiritual and mental self." He has recorded over 60 records that creatively, succinctly, and clearly provide a path for the new generation of "World" composers and musicians.
		In concert with Eternal Wind, Dr. Lateef performs on the soprano and tenor saxophones, shenai, Germanic C and alto flutes, piano, oboe, bamboo flute and Chinese globular flute.
		To honor Yusef Lateef's sixty years of performing, Beyond the Sky - featuring ten compositions by Rudolph and Lateef, three of which were co-composed - premièred at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in February, 2000.
	www.calstatela.edu /univ/ppa/newsrel/lateef.htm (1013 words)

	Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds - PopMatters Music Review
		Here, in a nutshell, is Lateef’s intention: A jazz record that speaks as succinctly and directly to its listeners as any other, but which, nevertheless, incorporates Eastern sounds to help open his audience’s ears just a little wider.
		Much of Lateef’s success in pulling off this dichotomy so convincingly lies in the band, and the way it consistently offsets his more far-out excursions with a blue-collar, Western straightforwardness.
		Lateef explores the upper registers of the instrument, creating a strange, snake-charmer’s clarinet, while Harris lays out some vaguely Chinese chops, reminiscent of Ra’s “Overtones of China”.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/4710/yusef-lateef-eastern-sounds (632 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Blue Yusef Lateef, The
		Yusef Lateef came out of the bebop tradition (having played in 1949 with the great trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie).
		Employing odd instruments such as the oboe and the argol (an obscure double reed instrument) into his sound, he gradually moved away from the staid traditions of bebop and its more groovy stepchild, hard bop.
		This said, on THE BLUE YUSEF LATEEF, we hear the tenor man alighting in a variety of musical styles.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=410989 (178 words)

	The World at Peace - Peforming Ensemble Info
		A Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Dr. Lateef is considered to be a senior scholar in all aspects of African American musics, especially since he has been active for more that fifty years in the areas of theoretical, composition, and autophysiopsychic musics.
		Both Dr. Lateef and Rudolph are to be considered as Ethnomusicology scholars and composer-performers familiar with the musical aesthetic offerings of many music traditions including their own.
		This method was evident right from the start with Lateef and Ralph Jones blending their alto flutes in such singular fashion of density that the notes were extended and deepened at the same time.
	www.metarecords.com /w_a_p_ensmble.html (1613 words)

	CD Review of Yusef Lateef - The Last Savoy Sessions on Savoy @ jazzreview.com
		Long before the idea of “world music” had even been considered a commodity for exploration, multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef was working on a new jazz synthesis that embraced the folk styles of other cultures.
		A precursor to all of Lateef’s recordings from the 60’s though would be a remarkable series of records he would lead for Savoy.
		Fresh out of Detroit, Lateef and his pals followed their muse to New York in the late ‘50s for this series of recordings that proved to be unlike anything else that Savoy was producing at the time.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=954 (333 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		The Blue Yusef Lateef was recorded in 1968, when multi-instrumentalists like Lateef and his labelmates Eddie Harris and Rahsaan Roland Kirk were viewed with great suspicion by the rest of the jazz world.
		Lateef’s shenai solo here is a real delight since the untempered Indian double-reed is the last thing you’d expect to hear – though it fits in perfectly.
		Aside from Lateef – whose tenor has a broad, juicy, pre-bop roadhouse flavor to it – harmonica player Buddy Lucas and guitarist Kenny Burrell are the only other players who get any substantial soloing in.
	www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/Ylateef_theblue.htm (397 words)

	Yusef Lateef Receives International Achievement Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At that time, Yusef was bringing a whole new sound to reed instruments and to the music world.
		Yusef worked with Charlie Mingus too, but it was only a matter of time before he became a bandleader and formed his own unit.
		As a clarification of recent statements in the press from Yusef Lateef, statements that he does not play Jazz, he responded from the stage.
	www.greatmusicandbooks.com /yusef_lateef_receives_internatio.htm (1082 words)

	Yusef Lateef : In the Garden - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		It would probably be an exaggeration to say that Yusef Lateef is underrated; the veteran saxophonist has long commanded a loyal, enthusiastic following.
		Recorded live at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA (a Los Angeles suburb) on March 1-2, 2003, In the Garden finds an 82-year-old Lateef leading a large ensemble that is mindful of African, Middle Eastern, and Asian music.
		Lateef not only plays the tenor sax on these performances -- he's also heard on a variety of flutes -- and his sidemen play everything from flutes and clarinets to traditional string and percussion instruments from Africa and Asia.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2719263,00.html (402 words)

	Quick Spotlight: The Separate But Equal sounds of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef
		Multi-instrumentalists Yusef Lateef and Rahsaan Roland Kirk must hold a certain place in Producer Joel Dorn’s heart.
		Not quite the "world music" that Yusef Lateef introduced to jazz, Part of the Search is full of both nostalgia and quirky experiments.
		Similar to Yusef Lateef, Rahsaan Roland Kirk deviated from his regular music style for 1975’s The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color.
	members.tripod.com /vermontreview/Jazz/KirkLateef.htm (854 words)

	Eastern Sounds (Remastered), MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		One of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef's most enduring recordings, Eastern Sounds was one of the last recordings made by the band that Lateef shared with pianist Barry Harris after the band moved to New York from Detroit, where the jazz scene was already dying.
		Lateef had long been interested in Eastern music, long before John Coltrane had ever shown any public interest anyway, so this Moodsville session (which meant it was supposed to be a laid-back ballad-like record), recorded in 1961, was drenched in Lateef's current explorations of Eastern mode and interval, as well as tonal and polytonal improvisation.
		Lateef moans softly on the oboe as the rhythm section doubles, then triples, then half times the beat until it all feels like a drone.
	www.emusic.com /album/10941/10941676.html (517 words)

	Upcoming.org: Yusef Lateef Jazz Quartet at WorldBeat Cultural Center (Sunday, October 30, 2005)
		Yusef Lateef is recognized as one of the greatest and most senior living masters in African-American music.
		In honor of his 85th birthday year Yusef Lateef will be touring with a special all-star quartet assembled especially for the occasion.
		At 85 years old Yusef Lateef is recognized as one of the greatest and most senior living masters in African-American music.
	upcoming.org /event/32993 (629 words)

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