john wummer – Marc Manley

Autophysiopsychic Partnership

Writings of the Yusef Lateef Quartet

Something Else: Yusef Lateef; Kenneth Barron; Albert Heath (Kuumba); Robert Cunningham

Out of the modern age of artistic experssion, many with individual talents have sprung. Pop music, pop art, cybernetics, electronics, writing have all produced their phenomenon-taking something from the old, adding it to the new and then cultivating its own. Each with its following, seriously adapting, accepting and enjoying. And so it is with Mr. Yusef Lateef, the man with his own inventive, exploring talents. A musician’s musician, Mr. Lateef has among his many accomplishments mastered expressions in improvisations, technically and esthetically.

It was in Detroit where Mr. Lateef began his musical career while a senior at the Miller High School. Upon completion of High School, he toured the country with several bands, namely, Luck Millinder, Hot Lips Page, Dizzy Gillespie and others. He later returned to Detroit and enrolled at the Wayne State Universtiy where he studied music for four years, at which time he organized the Yusef Lateef Quintet. The group successfully performed a three-year engagment at Klein’s Show Bar.

Acting upon advice of Dr. Valter Poole (assistant conductor for the Detroit Symphony), he left Wayne to study under the masters. He attended the Teal School of Music for two years studying flute and oboe. Mr. Lateef studied under masters Charles Mills (composition), Harold Jones (flute), Harry Schulman (oboe), George Dufalo (theory), John Wummer (flute). Today Mr. Lateef has a B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music where he majored in flute, an M.A. from the same school in music education. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Music at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Written by Yusef Lateef, Kenneth Barron, Albert Heath (Kuumba) and Robert Cunningham. Published by the Autophysiopsychic Partnership, P.O. Box 1110, Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, New York 10009.