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Yusef Lateef

Jazz
Jazz

Yusef Lateef is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Curtis Fuller, Kid Koala and Dizzy Gillespie. Those roots explain a lot about how Yusef Lateef arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dorothy Ashby, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson, Hank Mobley and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Metaphorical Music and Albert Heath, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Yusef Lateef, reaching back through Curtis Fuller and forward to Metaphorical Music. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Yusef LateefCurtis FullerKid KoalaDizzy GillespieMetaphorical MusicAlbert HeathDorothy AshbyWayne ShorterOliver NelsonHank MobleyFreddie HubbardLonnie Liston Smith …Ornette ColemanMulatu Astatke

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Yusef Lateef connections

Yusef Lateef grew out of Curtis Fuller, Kid Koala and Dizzy Gillespie, shares an orbit with Dorothy Ashby, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson and Hank Mobley, went on to shape Metaphorical Music and Albert Heath. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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