MUSICIAN

Yusef Lateef

1920 - 2013

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Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States. Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yusef Lateef has received more than 799,563 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yusef Lateef is the 812th most popular musician (up from 831st in 2019), the 4,071st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,141st in 2019) and the 254th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Yusef Lateef ranks 812 out of 3,175. Before him are Todd Rundgren, Pharoah Sanders, Domenico Montagnana, Julian Bream, Jean-Baptiste Arban, and Chris Squire. After him are Xaver Scharwenka, Gerry Rafferty, Sylvester Levay, Shigeru Umebayashi, Marcos Valle, and Chuck Schuldiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Yusef Lateef ranks 200. Before him are Stan Ockers, Giuseppe Colombo, Milton George Henschel, John Chadwick, Josefa Iloilo, and Ali Sabri. After him are Chatichai Choonhavan, José Gonzalvo, Stanko Todorov, Juan José Torres, Ignacio Eizaguirre, and Patrick Troughton. Among people deceased in 2013, Yusef Lateef ranks 195. Before him are Saye Zerbo, Tommy Morrison, Scott Carpenter, Henrique Rosa, Richard C. Sarafian, and Heinz Flohe. After him are Otto Muehl, Alain Mimoun, Halton Arp, Martin Koeman, Ivan Bodiul, and Gerrie Mühren.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Yusef Lateef ranks 4,071 out of 20,380. Before him are George Crumb (1929), Joe E. Tata (1936), Hedda Hopper (1885), Michael Kahn (1935), Sean Astin (1971), and Matthew Lillard (1970). After him are George Clinton (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Kevin McCarthy (1914), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Prosky (1930), and Peter Benchley (1940).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Yusef Lateef ranks 254. Before him are Stewart Copeland (1952), Krist Novoselic (1965), Marky Ramone (1952), T-Bone Walker (1910), Todd Rundgren (1948), and Pharoah Sanders (1940). After him are Chuck Schuldiner (1967), Adam Levine (1979), Dee Dee Warwick (1942), Floyd Council (1911), John Petrucci (1967), and Milt Jackson (1923).

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