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American jazz musician, artist, composer, and producer
Born 9 October 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, died 23 December 2013 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (aged 93)
Lateef was a jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in America, following his conversion to Islam in 1950. Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and featured many non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto in his performances.
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