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 ...

As Craft Recordings continue to mine their vast collection of recordings, their new take on the decades old Original Jazz Classics imprimatur continues to offer up inspired selections worthy of wider ...

A peer of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef introduced world music, spoken word and "found objects" into jazz. He visits for a special concert featuring three musicians he influenced.

Our friend Brad Hales, the Detroit music scholar and record slinger, just posted a wonderful mix of music by Detroit jazz legend Yusef Lateef.

The late Yusef Lateef, saxophonist, flutist and composer, was raised in the musical environment of 1930s Detroit, its clubs and ballrooms. We spoke to him about his Detroit memories, including as an ...

Yusef Lateef, a saxophonist and flutist who was one of the last surviving members of Dizzy Gillespie's 1949 big band and who helped pioneer spiritual jazz in the mid-1950s, soul-jazz in the 1960s with ...

He also played a character named Buck Naked on ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘NYPD Blue’ and showed up in films from ‘Vanishing Point’ to ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin.’ ...