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From the Soundboard #367 [Yusef Lateef]

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once this about Jazz. “Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph." On Wednesday, January 16 @ 3 am, From the Soundboard will focus on Jazz via the talents of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Abdul Lateef.

Long before cross-cultural fusions involving jazz musicians became the norm, Yusef Lateef made a point of using Middle Eastern and Asian instruments on his albums. Apart from brief stints as a sideman, he continued to bring different types of music together in groups appearing under his own name. Acclaimed for his skill on various reeds, from saxophone to oboe and well beyond, he increasingly developed as a composer both in and out of jazz. [Ronald Atkins - The Guardian]