- Aliases
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Yusef Lateef and His Jazz Quintet
The Yusef Lateef Quintet
Yusef Lateef's Detroit
- Real name
- William Emanual Huddleston
- Born
- October 9, 1920
- Died
- December 23, 2013
- Country
- United States
- IPI
-
00017378086 2 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Jazz multi-instrumentalist whose primary instruments are tenor saxophone and flute. Lateef has played in many jazz styles and is known for blending jazz and Eastern music. He is also a composer and educator. Lateef assumed this name after his conversion to Islam circa 1950.
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