Yusef Lateef
- MatchYusef Lateef
- 100%Pharoah Sanders
- 94%Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- 89%Herbie Mann
- 80%Bobby Hutcherson
- 77%Freddie Hubbard
- 74%Joe Henderson
- 73%Eric Dolphy
- 72%Cole Porter
- 72%Duke Ellington
- 72%Horace Silver
Biography
William Evans, 9 October 1920, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Lateef began playing tenor saxophone in his late teens. In New York in the mid-40s he played in bands led by Lucky Millinder, Roy Eldridge and other leading jazz musicians of the swing era, but later in the decade, in Chicago, he played with Dizzy Gillespie. Thereafter, his work was consciously modern in style. In the mid-50s he adopted the Muslim faith and took the name by which he is now known. He led... Read more
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jazz
saxophone
flute
fusion
experimental
jazz
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fusion
experimental
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