Yusef Lateef

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator. He won a Grammy Award in 1987.

Yusef Lateef
Lateef in a 2007 performance
Background information
Birth name	William Emanuel Huddleston
Also known as	Yusef Lateef
Born	(1920-10-09)October 9, 1920 Chattanooga, Tennessee United States
Died	December 23, 2013(2013-12-23) (aged 93) Shutesbury, Massachusetts United States
Genres	New Age music, jazz, post-bop, jazz fusion, swing, hard bop, third stream, autophysiopsychic music, world music
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, educator, spokesman, author
Instruments	Tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, bassoon, bamboo flute, shehnai, shofar, arghul, koto
Years active	1957 – 2013
Labels	Savoy, Prestige, Verve, Riverside, Impulse, Atlantic, CTI, YAL Records
Website	www.yuseflateef.com

Lateef mainly played the tenor saxophone and flute. He also played oboe and bassoon. He is known for his innovative blending of jazz with "Eastern" music.

He became a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.

Lateef died at the age of 93 in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. He had suffered from prostate cancer.^[1]