finetune artist: Yusef Lateef

It is impossible to neatly summarize Yusef Lateef's five-decades-and-counting musical career. A deep musical thinker and multi-instrumental virtuoso (tenor sax and oboe chief among them), Lateef plays music that covers a profoundly broad range of styles. His burly hard-bop excursions of the early '60s soon incorporated various Eastern instruments and scales. His more recent work, from the 1980s on, has featured innovative compositional techniques and is more symphonic in nature, yet continues to use non-Western instrumentation to singular effect.

Listen to Yusef Lateef at Finetune.

(2007) Yusef Lateef's Encounters
(2007) Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42Âº 30Âº Longitude 83Âº
(2006) Rhino Hi-Five: Yusef Lateef
(2006) Eastern Sounds
(2006) Eastern Sounds
(2006) Hush 'N' Thunder
(2006) The Diverse Yusef Lateef
(2006) Yusef Lateef 's Little Symphony
(2006) Part Of The Search
(2006) Meditations
(2006) Cry! - Tender
(2006) Into Something
(2006) The Centaur And The Phoenix
(2006) The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef
(2006) Other Sounds
(2006) The Sounds Of Lateef
(2005) The Blue Yusef Lateef
(2005) The Complete Yusef Lateef
(2005) Concerto For Yusef Lateef
(2005) The Doctor Is In And Out
(2005) Psychicemotus
(2004) 1984
(2004) The Golden Flute
(1999) Live at Pep's: Volume Two
(1994) Every Village Has a Song: The Yusef Lateef Anthology
(1993) Live At Pep's
(1992) The Gentle Giant

Love Theme From Spartacus
Jungle Plum
Nubian Lady
Eboness
Warm Fire