Join us for a collaborative concert event featuring Blair School of Music faculty, students, and special guest artists, as we celebrate the life, music, and legacy of Yusef Lateef.

Performers will include Jeff Coffin and Brian Utley, saxophone; Jared Hauser, oboe; Molly Barth, flute; Blair student jazz combos, the Blair Big Band, and The BlueNote Combo, with program moderation by Doug Shadle.

Friday, September 12, 2025
Turner Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
- Free with tickets required for admission | Reserve Tickets

About Yusef Lateef:

Yusef Abdul Lateef (October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Detroit, Lateef went on to perform with Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley and Grant Green. He received a Grammy Award in 1988 for Yusef Lateef’s Little Symphony, honored as Best New Age Performance.
Most known for his work on tenor saxophone and flute, Lateef also played oboe and bassoon, and non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He coined the term “autophysiopsychic” to describe his “music from one’s physical, mental and spiritual self.”