Remembering the great Yusef Lateef who was born on this day in 1920. Known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with “Eastern” music, Lateef played non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto alongside the tenor saxophone and flute which were his main instruments. At a time when jazz musicians in the United States rarely sought inspiration any farther geographically than Latin America, Lateef looked well beyond the Western Hemisphere. An
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Remembering the great Yusef Lateef who was born on this day in 1920. Known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with “Eastern” music, Lateef played non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto alongside the tenor saxophone and flute which were his main instruments. At a time when jazz musicians in the United States rarely sought inspiration any farther geographically than Latin America, Lateef looked well beyond the Western Hemisphere. An
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