Remembering the great Yusef Lateef who was born on this day in 1920. Known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with “Eastern” music, Lateef played non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto alongside the tenor saxophone and flute which were his main instruments. At a time when jazz musicians in the United States rarely sought inspiration any farther geographically than Latin America, Lateef looked well beyond the Western Hemisphere. An

Yusef Lateef Quartet play "Yesterdays" live on Jazz Harmonie 📽️: Recorded at Parc Floral de Paris, 1972 #jazzisdead | Jazz Is Dead