
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 10/10
1. Brother Yusef (Nicholas Humpert, 2005) Multi-instrumentalist, best known for his tenure with Cannonball Adderley’s band, followed by a run of minor classic 60’s releases on the Impulse and Atlantic labels. Lateef was one among a number of American jazz musicians to convert to Islam (in the 50s, a few years after the likes of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Ahmad Jamal, Sahib Shihab and Shafi Hadi) and certainly one of the very first to integrate Eastern, Arabic and African sounds into