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 ...
Adam Rudolph’s third recording with the Go:Organic Orchestra finds the master percussionist in collaboration with longtime friend and associate, jazz legend Yusef Lateef. The recording documents a ...
Saturday's concert by jazz innovator Yusef Lateef figures to be a particularly memorable evening. There's the simple fact that Lateef is here at all: Now 88, the influential and idiosyncratic ...
Our friend Brad Hales, the Detroit music scholar and record slinger, just posted a wonderful mix of music by Detroit jazz legend Yusef Lateef. “Prolific” is a word most often associated with ...
The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most “sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, ...
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, ...
The late jazz multi-instrumentalist, a bluesy experimentalist, was known for his soulful, internationally flavored music. He died Monday at 93.... The multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, famed in the ...
Hatis Noit's pseudonym derives from Japanese folklore and translates as "the stem of the lotus flower." According to the press notes for her new album, Aura, the lotus represents the natural world ...