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 prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and 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. Peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician "played world music before world music had a name".
Lateef's books included two novellas titled A Night in the Garden of Love and Another Avenue, the short story collections Spheres and Rain Shapes, and his autobiography, The Gentle Giant, written in collaboration with Herb Boyd. Along with his record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, a music publishing company. He published his own work through Fana, including Yusef Lateef's Flute Book of the Blues and many of his orchestral compositions.
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- Adoration - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Apathy - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Arjuna Nature - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Bass Region - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Before Dawn - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Blessed - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Blue Rocky - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Blues For the Orient - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Blues In Space - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Brother Terry - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Buckingham - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Butter's Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Chang, Chang, Chang - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Check Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Ching Miau - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Cry!-Tender - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Dopolous - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Ecaps - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Endura - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- From Within - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Happyology - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Iqbal - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Koko's Tune - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Let Every Soul Say Amen - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Love and Humor - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Love Is Eternal - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Mahaba - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Meditation - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Melody - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Metaphor - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Midday - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 1 - Yusef Lateef
- Minor Mood - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Moon Tree - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Mopp Shoe Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Morning (1957 Take) - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Morning (1958 Take) - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- O' Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Oboe Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Open Strings - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Outside Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- P. Bouk - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Passion - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Pike's Peak - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Polarity - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Purple Flower - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Rasheed - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Retrogress - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Salt Water Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Snafu - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Soul Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Sounds Of Nature - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Space - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Beginning - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Dreamer Nature - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Philanthropist - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Plum Blossom - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Snow Is Green - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- The Three Faces Of Balal - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Train Stop - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Trudy's Delight - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Twenty-Five Minute Blues - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Valse Bouk - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Water Pistol - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
- Yusef's Mood - Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 - Yusef Lateef
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