Yusef Lateef
tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, bassoon, non-Western instruments · 1920–2013 · Chattanooga
Born William Emanuel Huddleston and trained in the Detroit scene (Milt Jackson, Paul Chambers, Elvin Jones), he combined jazz with instruments and colors from the East: shehnai, xun, arghul, koto. From 1971 he taught his "autophysiopsychic" music at the Manhattan School of Music, and he won a Grammy in 1987.
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