Thursday, January 02, 2014

A LIFE REMEMBERED

Yusef, performing at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2007

YUSEF LATEEF

Legendary tenor saxophonist, oboist, flutist and composer Yusef Lateef, whose 75-year odyssey in music took him from the jazz clubs of Detroit to the fields of Africa, the world of classical music and the halls of academia, died Monday at his home in Shutesbury, Mass, near Amherst. He was 93.

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