Lateef
USA
Born: 09 October 1920
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, International
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Bop, Modern Creative, Free Jazz, World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion
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Yusef Lateef has long had an inquisitive spirit and he was never just a bop or hard bop soloist. Lateef, who does not care much for the term "jazz," has consistently created music that has stretched (and even broken through) boundaries. A superior tenor saxophonist with a soulful sound and impressive technique, by the 1950s, Lateef was one of the top flutists around. He also developed into the best jazz soloist to date on oboe, was an occasional bassoonist, and introduced such instruments as the argol (a double clarinet that resembles a bassoon...
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