Yusef Lateef  

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Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.

Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also used a number of non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music.

Discography

As leader

Savoy 1957-1959

• Jazz for the Thinker (1957)
• Jazz Mood (1957)
• Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957)
• Prayer to the East (1957)
• The Dreamer (1959)
• The Fabric of Jazz (1959)

Impulse! 1963-1966

• Jazz 'Round the World (1963)
• Live at Pep's (1964)
• 1984 (1965)
• Psychicemotus (1965)
• A Flat, G Flat and C (1966)
• The Golden Flute (1966)

Atlantic 1967 -1991

• The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967)
• The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968)
• Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969)
• The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969)
• Suite 16 (1970)
• The Gentle Giant (1971)
• Hush 'N' Thunder (1972)
• Part of the Search (1973)
• 10 Years Hence (1974)
• The Doctor is In... and Out (1976)
• Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
• Concerto for Yusef Lateef (1988)
• Nocturnes (1989)
• Meditations (1990)
• Yusef Lateef's Encounters (1991)

YAL Records 1992-2002

• Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Von Freeman (1992)
• Heart Vision (1992)
• Yusef Lateef Plays Ballads (1993)
• Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp (1993)
• Woodwinds (1993)
• Tenors of Yusef Lateef & Ricky Ford (1994)
• Yusef Lateef's Fantasia for Flute (1996)
• Full Circle (1996)
• CHNOPS: Gold & Soul (1997)
• Earth and Sky (1997)
• 9 Bagatelles (1998)
• Like the Dust (1998)
• Live at Luckman Theater (2001)
• Earriptus (2001)
• So Peace (2002)
• A Tribute Concert for Yusef Lateef: YAL's 10th Anniversary (2002)

Meta Records

• The World at Peace (1997)
• Beyond the Sky (2000)
• Go: Organic Orchestra: In the Garden (2003)
• Towards the Unknown (2010)
• Voice Prints (2013)

Other labels

• Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (Verve, 1957)
• The Sounds of Yusef (Prestige, 1957)
• Other Sounds (New Jazz, 1957)
• Lateef at Cranbrook (Argo, 1958)
• Cry! - Tender (New Jazz, 1959)
• The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (Riverside, 1960)
• The Centaur and the Phoenix (Riverside, 1960)
• Lost in Sound (Charlie Parker, 1961)
• Eastern Sounds (Moodsville, 1961)
• Into Something (New Jazz, 1961)
• Autophysiopsychic (1977, CTI Records)
• In a Temple Garden (1979, CTI Records)
• Yusef Lateef in Nigeria (Landmark, 1983)
• Influence with Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo (2005)
• Roots Run Deep (Rogue Art, 2012)

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

• The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1962)
• Cannonball in Europe! (Riverside, 1962)
• Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1962)
• Autumn Leaves (Riverside, 1963)
• Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1963)

With Nat Adderley

• That's Right! (Riverside, 1960)

With Ernestine Anderson

• My Kinda Swing (1960)

With Art Blakey

• The African Beat (1962)

With Donald Byrd

• Byrd Jazz (Transition, 1955)
• First Flight (1957)

With Paul Chambers

• 1st Bassman (1961)

With Art Farmer

• Something You Got (CTI, 1977)

With Curtis Fuller

• Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)
• Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick, 1960)
• Gettin' It Together (1961)

With Grant Green

• Grantstand (Blue Note, 1961)

With Slide Hampton

• Drum Suite (1962)

With Louis Hayes

• Louis Hayes featuring Yusef Lateef & Nat Adderley (1960)

With Les McCann

• Invitation to Openness (1972)

With Don McLean

• Homeless Brother (1973)

With Charles Mingus

• Pre-Bird (aka, Mingus Revisited, 1960)

With Babatunde Olatunji

• Drums of Passion (1960)

With Sonny Red

• Breezing (Jazzland, 1960)

With Leon Redbone

• Double Time (Warner Bros., 1976)

With Clark Terry

• Color Changes (1960)

With Doug Watkins

• Soulnik (New Jazz, 1960)

With Randy Weston

• Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)

With Frank Wess

• Jazz Is Busting Out All Over (1957)