Saturday's concert by jazz innovator Yusef Lateef figures to be a particularly memorable evening. There's the simple fact that Lateef is here at all: Now 88, the influential and idiosyncratic ...

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, ...

A high quality reissue of Yusef Lateef’s 1957 debut Jazz Mood was long overdue and this OJC edition does not disappoint. Each OJC release is sourced from fresh lacquers cut directly from the original ...

The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most “sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, ...

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 ...

Exotic instruments littered the stage of Bowker Auditorium this past Thursday as crowds of people flooded in through the entranceway to see jazz great Yusef Lateef and percussionist Adam Rudolph.

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 ...