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 ...

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

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 ...

The Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist was known for his fusion of jazz and Eastern music. By Kevin Rutherford, Billboard This story first appeared on billboard.com. According to the Daily Hampshire ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Jazz artists Miles Davis to Wes Montgomery and present day performers from Boney James to Kenny G have all been influenced by Yusef Lateef. Hugh Smith owner of Baker's Keyboard Lounge ...

SHUTESBURY, Mass. — 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 ...

This interview was originally published in February 2000. Yusef Lateef will tell you—politely, firmly, insistently, frequently—that he does not play jazz. The sprawling Part of the Search seems ...

The last few months of 2013 saw the passing away of three musicians who, although not household names outside the jazz community, made memorable contributions. Although each of them—Frank Wess, Chico ...

With a recent article in JazzTimes covering the history of Impulse Records and the role that prime mover John Coltrane made in securing the label's place in history, it occurred to me that there are ...

Yusef Lateef, an uncommonly adventurous saxophonist-flutist-oboist who more than half a century ago dared to bring sounds from around the globe into jazz, died Monday morning in his home in Shutesbury ...