Some years ago the Jazz Journalists Association, as a tribute to friend and colleague the late Harlem jazz writer Clarence Atkins sponsored a group of aspiring African American music writers to attend ...

Like most, Alhena Katsof knew the late Yusef Lateef primarily for his contributions to jazz music through performance and teaching. So when Katsof discovered Lateef’s drawings for the first time, she ...

Brother Yusef has shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 93. Sadly, another death of a personal musical hero and champion. Yusef Lateef got his start playing in Detroit’s big band scene in 1939. He had ...

Yusef Lateef was an avid explorer of musics and philosophies from all over the world. Credit: Riverside Records album cover detail As vinyl continues its unlikely resurgence for a music media format, ...

Craft Recordings —the boutique audiophile arm of Concord Music and guardian of legendary labels like Fantasy, Prestige, Riverside, Milestone, and Savoy—continues its noble mission of reviving rare ...

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 Shutesbury in western ...

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 ...

Yusef Lateef defined music far from Western concepts while presenting cross-cultural fusions. His life was committed as a premier jazz saxophonist, flutist, and many woodwinds entering crossing ...

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 ...

Yusef Lateef, the legendary Detroit-bred multi-instrumentalist and composer who died in 2013 at the age of 93, was known for the breathtaking diversity of his accomplishments. He had a brawny sound on ...

Yusef Lateef, a Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator who brought the sounds of world music to jazz and became one of the first jazz musicians to convert to the teachings ...

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.