Let me start out by saying this is one fine, tasty disc. For those unfamiliar with Lateef’s work, he is a multi-reedist, composer, arranger who has been working from at least the 1950s and is still ...

Ahmad Jamal's live performances have been well represented in his discography over the past sixty years. Yet despite touring the globe, all Jamal's live recordings—with the exception of the DVD ...

Like most, Alhena Katsof knew the late Yusef Lateef primarily for his contributions to jazz music through performance and teaching. So when Katsof discovered Lateef’s drawings for the first time, she ...

Yusef Lateef was an avid explorer of musics and philosophies from all over the world. Credit: Riverside Records album cover detail As vinyl continues its unlikely resurgence for a music media format, ...

Chattanooga native Yusef Lateef, jazz innovator who won a Grammy Award, has died at the age of 93 at his home at Shutesbury, Mass. Born William Emanuel Huddleston on Oct. 9, 1920, he moved with his ...

The multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, famed in the jazz world for embracing tranquil spiritualism and non-Western sonorities in his own music, died Monday at his home near Amherst, Mass. The death ...

Craft Recordings —the boutique audiophile arm of Concord Music and guardian of legendary labels like Fantasy, Prestige, Riverside, Milestone, and Savoy—continues its noble mission of reviving rare ...

Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. He was 93. Lateef died Monday at his home in Shutesbury in western ...

Yusef Lateef, a Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator who brought the sounds of world music to jazz and became one of the first jazz musicians to convert to the teachings ...

SHUTESBURY, Mass. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. He was 93. Lateef died Monday at his home in ...

Brother Yusef has shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 93. Sadly, another death of a personal musical hero and champion. Yusef Lateef got his start playing in Detroit’s big band scene in 1939. He had ...