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Saxophonist Yusef Lateef Dies at Age 93

Massachusetts: Grammy Award musician and composer Yusef Lateef died at the age of 93 years. Lateef died Monday at his home in Shutesbury in western Massachusetts, after the Douglass Funeral Home in Amherst. Lateef, a tenor saxophonist known for his impressive technique has to be a top player bagpipes. It was jazz played oboe and bassoon. He presented the different types of flutes and other wind instruments in many countries in their music and with music in the world before it is officially called credited Saxophonist Yusef Lateef Dies at Age 93
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As a composer, he has created works for solo artists from bands choirs. His longer pieces have been performed by orchestras in the U.S. and Germany.
In 1987, he won a Grammy Award for his recording new era'' Kleine Sinfonie Yusef Lateef'', in which he plays all the instruments.
In 2010 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honor in jazz of the nation.
Lateef was an international success and has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Japan and Africa. His last tour in the summer.
He held a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in music education at the Manhattan School of Music, and from 1987 to 2002, he taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, who earned a doctorate in education.
Born William Emanuel Huddleston in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1920, Lateef raised five years later with his family to Detroit. He met many of the best musicians that are part of the Detroit music scene active and 18 tours professionally with swing bands of Lucky Millinder, Roy Eldridge, Hot Lips Page and Ernie fields were performed.
In 1949 he was invited by Dizzy Gillespie orchestra played bebop to play. He took the name of Yusef Lateef after it. A member of the Ahmadi and twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca
Lateef began recording under his own name in 1956 for Savoy Records and made over 100 recordings as a leader for labels such as Prestige, Impulse, Atlantic and YAL. His first recordings, the most enduring songs like'' Love Theme from Spartacus'' and'''' morning.
In the 1980s, he taught at a university in Nigeria, where he conducted research at the Fulani flute.
He is survived by his wife, Ayesha Lateef, son, Yusef Lateef, granddaughter and great-grandchildren.

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