Word: yusef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yusef Crowder. a UMass freshman, is the main drummer for the group. Accompanied by two of his drum students. he plays twice a week-Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. and Thursday...
...depositors should have little to worry about on this score. Intra Bank, when it collapsed in the fall of 1966 and sent Founder and Financier Yusef Bedas into hasty exile, turned out to hold loans of about $120 million made on virtually nonexistent collateral. But it also had another $217 million in gilt-edged investments, including majority ownership in prospering Middle East Airlines and a hunk of choice real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees. All that was needed was a plan to satisfy its creditors and the Lebanese government. This was provided by the U.S. banking firm of Kidder...
...FLAT, G FLAT AND C (Impulse). The featured player is Yusef Lateef, who used to be plain William Evans, tenor saxophonist with Dizzy Gillespie. In the '50s, Evans changed his name, his faith (from Christian to Mohammedan), and the nature of his jazz, turning to such Middle Eastern instruments as the rebab and the arghool. Now he's headed farther east with The Chuen Blues, played on a three-stringed Chinese lute, and Kyoto Blues, on a Taiwan bamboo flute...
...best tune by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet was Brother John, composed by Yusef Lateef in honor of John Coltrane. Lateef, the group's tenorman, played oboe on this one to achieve a haunting, Middle Eastern effect. He stood absolutely immobile, lost in concentration, while the rest of the band bounced and wiggled...