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Birth name[edit]

Some sources cite "William Evans" as Yusef Lateef's name of birth

You're right, many sites do (http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/ylcat.htm is one), but as William Emanuel Huddleston is what it says in the biography on his official website (http://www.yuseflateef.com/AboutYusef.html) I think we should stick with that.

--Bungopolis 23:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I did some additional research and apparently Lateef appears under the name William Evans on recordings with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra in 1949. Huddleston is indeed his birthname.

The Wikipedia entry on Lateef could use some additional comments on his stint with the Cannonball Adderley Sextet in the 60s.

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 19:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Detroit" the album[edit]

I'm removing the link under Lateef's discography for the album Detroit (1969). The link sends the reader to the wikipedia page for Detroit (city), which in the context of the discography is not an appropriate link. It should be a dead link until/if someone writes something about the album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.22.44 (talk) 02:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: I discovered that the official title of the 1969 album is actually "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" (although the erroneously truncated "Detroit" predominates online as it's title)... this correction of the title automatically fixes the link to the Detroit (city) page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.22.44 (talk) 02:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yusef[edit]

yusef is the man! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.22.40 (talk) 05:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Yusef was the man. :(
RIP, Yusef Lateef - Darr247 (talk) 19:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"the world music as subgenres of jazz"?[edit]

Can somebody explain/clarify/correct the following sentence? "Along with trumpeter Don Cherry, Lateef can lay claim to being among the first exponents of the world music as subgenres of jazz. " --Human fella (talk) 10:55, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the sentence, obviously the term "world music" only dates back about a quarter century at most. The quote from Peter Keepnews I added to the summary helpfully gets around the problem with making this point. Philip Cross (talk) 12:09, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sideman error in obits[edit]

Lateef's regular drummer in the late '50s was Frank Gant. In many obits, his name is misspelled as "Grant." I wonder if the misspelling wasn't present on an album cover released in 1960? Activist (talk) 22:47, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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