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Born William Evans, Chattanooga Tennessee, October 9, 1920; education: B.A. Music Wayne State University; B.A. Music Education M.A. Manhattan School of Music; Doctorate Music Education University of Massachusetts, 1975; Senior Research Fellowship in Zaria, Nigeria, 1980-84.

Addresses: Record company--Atlantic Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019.

Multi-instrumentalist, educator, poet--Yusef Lateef emerged, in the 1940s, as one of the first jazz musicians to study the music of Afro-Asian cultures and to embrace the traditional teachings of Islam.

Since his early musical career in Detroit, Yusef Lateef has traveled the world and various creative avenues. A contributor to the development of the flute and oboe as mainstream jazz instruments, Lateef is a serious student of ethnic instruments from around the world, for which he has emerged as a time-honored mentor among jazzmen and the post-bebop cultural avant garde.

Yusef Lateef was born William Evans in Chattanooga, Te