Latest Release
- 18 AUG 2023
- 5 Songs
- Eastern Sounds · 1960
- The Doctor Is In ...And Out · 1976
- The Doctor Is In ...And Out · 1976
- Suite 16 · 1970
- The Gentle Giant · 1972
- Jazz Mood · 1957
- Suite 16 · 1964
- Grantstand (Remastered) · 1961
- Other Sounds - EP (Remastered) · 1957
- Yusef Lateef Plays Yusef Lateef, Vol. 2 · 1957
Essential Albums
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- An inveterate jazz explorer inspired by the sounds of the east.
Singles & EPs
- Art Farmer & Art Farmer with Yusef Lateef & David Matthews' Big Band
About Yusef Lateef
It is impossible to neatly summarize Yusef Lateef's decades-long musical career. A deep musical thinker and multi-instrumental virtuoso (tenor sax and oboe chief among them), Lateef played music covering a profoundly broad range of styles. His burly hard bop excursions of the early '60s soon incorporated various Eastern instruments and scales. His later work, from the 1980s on, featured innovative compositional techniques and was more symphonic in nature, while continuing to use non-Western instrumentation to singular effect.
- HOMETOWN
- Chattanooga, TN, United States
- BORN
- 9. Oktober 1920
- GENRE
- Jazz