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Born William Evans in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lateef was raised in Detroit, where he played in a mixture of bands as a bop-oriented improviser with a rich tenor sound. His big break came when he joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1948. He was exploring Afro-Asian musical styles as early as the 1950s, with recordings such as Prayer To The East, and Eastern Sounds and Other Sounds. In the '60s and '70s, Lateef worked with Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus and Babatunde Olatunji. His most famous recordings were on the Impulse! and Atlantic labels, where he released Jazz 'Round The World, The Gentle Giant and Hush 'N' Thunder which, held some of his best in mainstream and Negro spiritual-derived compositions. Lateef has worked with percussionist Adam Rudolph, saxophonists Ricky Ford, Rene McLean, and guitarist Earl Klugh. He also teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Currently, he concentrates more on the flute, performing and recording African percussion and pastoral works like Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony and Cantata, released on his own YAL label in 1994. Yusef Lateef is a musician who for more than 50 years has used jazz artistic power from the Mississippi Delta to the Middle East. Reference: Jazz: A History of the New York Scene Samuel Charters and Leonard Kunstadt (Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1962) p.73 Jazz People by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York Copyright 1976 ISBN 0-8109-1152-3
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