Yusef Lateef (of its true name William Emanuel Huddleston ) is a Musicien and Compositeur of American Jazz , born on October 9th, 1920 with Chattanooga (Tennessee).

Author of very many discs, Yusef Lateef makes conspicuous himself by the integration of elements of music Orient ale in his jazz, and by the fact that it is able to play of several wind instruments: in addition to the Saxophone, it in particular used different Flûte S - mainly the Flute -, the Hautbois, the Basson, as well as others instruments coming from Asia and Africa, such as the Shenai, the Koto and the Arghoul.

Biography

In 1925, the future Yusef Lateef and its family move with Detroit in the Michigan. It is there that its musical career begins: using then the name of William Evans , he then attends many musicians of jazz of which Milt Jackson, Paul Chambers, Elvin Jones and Kenny Burrell. In 1949, it is invited in round by Dizzy Gillespie in its orchestra universally recognized. In 1950, Yusef Lateef turns over to Detroit and begins studies in musical Composition and Flûte with the " Wayne State University ". It is at that time that it converts with the Islam ahmadist and changes his name.

Yusef Lateef starts with enregister as leader in 1956 for " Savoy Records " , leaving anything less than 5 albums the following year. It is in 1961, with the album Eastern Sounds , which it acquires a sound well with him with clearly perceptible Eastern influences. It was said that the sound of Yusef Lateef exerted a major influence on the saxophonist John Coltrane who, later during the time Free jazz, will also use features influenced by the East.

In 1960, Lateef turns over again to the school, to continue the training of the flute to the " Manhattan School off Music " with New York. He collaborates with Julian Cannonball Adderley of which he joined the quintet, while continuing to record as a leader. He obtains a university degree of first cycle in music in 1969 and a Maîtrise in musical education in 1970. As from 1972 he becomes professor associated with the " Borough off Manhattan Community College ". Meanwhile, its music was directed little by little towards the Blues then towards the Funk.

In the years 1980, Yusef Lateef turns to the music New Age. In 1992, it founds the label " YAL Records " and, in 1993, is elected by the orchestra of the radio WDR to compose l'" African American Epic Continuation " , a work in four parts for orchestra and four-bit byte based on the topic of the Slavery to the the United States. Work was played since by the symphony orchestras of Atlanta and Detroit.

Yusef Lateef wrote several books whose news entitled has Night in the Garden off Coils (" One night in the garden of the amour") and published collections of news Spheres and Rain Shapes . In addition to its house of recording " YAL Records" , Yusef Lateef has " Music" faded; , a company of music publishing. It publishes its own work at Fana, of which the book of flute of blues and much of its orchestral compositions.

In 2005, Yusef Lateef is invited by the brothers Lionel and Stephan Belmondo to be recorded with them. The result will be Influence , an double album mélant jazz and Baroque music, followed by a round in France.

Extract of its discography

• 1957 : The Sounds off Yusef
• 1957: Jazz Mood
• 1957: Prayer to the East
• 1959 : Cry! - Tender
• 1959: Other sounds
• 1960 : The Centaur and the Phoenix
• 1961: Eastern Sounds
• 1963 : Japanese Drunk person (Cannonball Adderley 'S sextet)
• 1964: Live At Pep' S (volume 1, volume 2 is appeared in 1999)
• 1965: Psychicemotus
• 1966 : The Golden delicious Flute
• 1968: The Blue Yusef Lateef
• 1969: Yusef Lateef' S Strait
• 1970: The various Yusef Lateef
• 1972: Hush “Thunder
• 1974: The Doctor is In… And Out
• 1974 : Share off the Search
• 1975: Ten Years Hence
• 1978 : Autophysiopsychic

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• 2005 : Influence (with Lionel and Stephan Belmondo)

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