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unusual facts about Yusef Lateef's Detroit


Special Herbs, Vol. 2

#* Contains samples from "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps, from the album Skull Snaps, and from "Eastern Market" by Yusef Lateef, from the album Yusef Lateef's Detroit.


Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival

Jazz stars like Miles Davis, Count Basie, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor have played the festival, as well as headliners like Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Etta James, James Brown, Booker T. & the MG's, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, and Al Green.

Doug Watkins

The other Watkins-led session, Soulnik (1961), with Yusef Lateef and reissued as part of the OJC series, features Watkins on cello with Herman Wright backing him on bass.

Kayo Dot

At Hampshire, Driver, Olson, and Dickson were students of jazz musician Yusef Lateef, whose theories of autophysiopsychic music may have influenced the bands' output.

Tate Houston

That same year, he appeared on Nat Adderley's That's Right! as part of a sax section comprising Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Heath and Charlie Rouse.

The Japanese Concerts

The Japanese Concerts is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Kosei-nenkin Kaikan and Sankei Hall in Tokyo during his 1963 Japanese tour and featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

Tom McClung

He has played and recorded with musicians such as Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, and Marion Brown.

Uli Trepte

At about that time and later he also appeared with jazz musicians like Yusef Lateef, Gato Barbieri, Barney Wilen, John McLaughlin and Mal Waldron.

Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony

Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony is an album by Yusef Lateef, released through the record label Rhino Atlantic in June 1987.


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