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 ...
Born in Chattanooga and raised in Detroit, Yusef Lateef is widely regarded as one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of what would later be called world music. His first recordings came ...
A high quality reissue of Yusef Lateef’s 1957 debut Jazz Mood was long overdue and this OJC edition does not disappoint. Each OJC release is sourced from fresh lacquers cut directly from the original ...
Our friend Brad Hales, the Detroit music scholar and record slinger, just posted a wonderful mix of music by Detroit jazz legend Yusef Lateef.