Born in Chattanooga and raised in Detroit, Yusef Lateef is widely regarded as one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of what would later be called world music. His first recordings came ...

Yusef Lateef, a saxophonist and flutist who was one of the last surviving members of Dizzy Gillespie's 1949 big band and who helped pioneer spiritual jazz in the mid-1950s, soul-jazz in the 1960s with ...