Editing Yusef Lateef (section)

=== Later career ===
[[Image:Yusef Lateef 2.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Lateef performing in 2007 at the [[Detroit Jazz Festival]]]]
His 1987 album ''[[Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony]]'' won the [[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album|Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yusef Lateef |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/yusef-lateef/10018 |website=Recording Academy |access-date=June 24, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="Official website biography1" /> His core influences, however, were clearly rooted in jazz, and in his own words: "My music is jazz."<ref>Jung, Fred, [http://www.jazzweekly.com/interviews/Ylateef.htm "A Fireside Chat With Yusef Lateef"], ''Jazz Weekly''.</ref>

In 1992, Lateef founded YAL Records. In 1993, he was commissioned by the [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk|WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne]] to compose ''The African American Epic Suite'', a four-part work for orchestra and quartet, based on themes of [[slavery]] and [[disfranchisement]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=The African American Epic Suite |url=https://yuseflateef.com/store/index.php?product/page/408/The+African+American+Epic+Suite |website=Yusef Lateef |access-date=June 30, 2022 }}</ref> The piece has since been performed by the [[Atlanta Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]].

In 2005, Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel, directors of ''Step Across The Border'', filmed Brother Yusef, in his wooden house in the middle of a forest in Massachusetts. In 2010, he received the lifetime [[NEA Jazz Masters|Jazz Master Fellowship Award]] from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (NEA), an independent federal agency.<ref name="Official website biography1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/master.php?id=2010_06&type=bio |title=Lifetime Honors: 2010 NEA Jazz Master – Yusef Lateef| publisher=National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters |access-date=2010-11-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927170216/http://arts.endow.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/master.php?id=2010_06&type=bio|archive-date=September 27, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Established in 1982, the [[NEA Jazz Masters|National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters]] award is the highest honor given in jazz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/JMbyYear.php|title=Lifetime Honors: NEA Jazz Masters 1982–2011|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters |access-date=2010-11-10 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927170200/http://arts.endow.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/JMbyYear.php|archive-date=September 27, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Manhattan School of Music, where Lateef had earned a bachelor's and a master's degree, awarded him its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.

His last albums were recorded for [[Adam Rudolph]]'s Meta Records. To the end of his life, Lateef continued to teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, [[Smith College]], and Hampshire College in western Massachusetts. Lateef died of prostate cancer on the morning of December 23, 2013, at the age of 93, survived by his wife, Ayesha, and son, Yusef.<ref>[http://www.gazettenet.com/home/9933070-95/yusef-lateef-grammy-winning-musician-composer-dies-at-93 "Yusef Lateef, Grammy-winning musician, composer, dies at 93"], Gazettenet.com, December 23, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=December 25, 2013 |author=Angel Romero |title=Jazz and World Music Visionary Yusef Lateef Dies At 93 |url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2013/12/25/jazz-and-world-music-visionary-yusef-lateef-dies-at-93/ |website=World Music Central |access-date=June 24, 2022 }}</ref>

Following his death, Lateef's family auctioned off many of his instruments, in the hopes that they would continue to be played. Woodwind player [[Jeff Coffin]] purchased Lateef's main tenor saxophone, as well as his [[bass flute]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=YUSEF LATEEF |url=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/yusef-lateef |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=JazzMusicArchives.com |language=en}}</ref>

In October 2020, the UMass Fine Arts Center celebrated the centenary of Lateef's birth by producing "Yusef Lateef: A Centenary Celebration", a major online exhibit of his work curated by Glenn Siegel and others. The centenary includes "100 Responses to Yusef Lateef", a series of video tributes by many prominent artists and former Lateef collaborators and students.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pfarrer|first=Steve|date=October 6, 2020|title=Marking the centenary of a remarkable artist: Virtual UMass program celebrates Yusef Lateef|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Jazz-great-Yusef-Lateef-is-celebrated-through-virtual-program-at-UMass-Amherst-Fine-Arts-Center-36515670|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=Daily Hampshire Gazette}}</ref>