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Grammy Award-winning, Tennessee-born jazz musician and composer Yusef Abdul Lateef has died at home in Shutesbury, Mass., said his official website.
The famed saxophone player, who was raised in Detroit, was 93 when he died of age-related complications Monday.
"He passed peacefully at home with loved ones," his website said.
"He considered Detroit his home -- an incubator for wonderful musicians," Lateef's wife, Ayesha, told the Detroit News. "He expanded into the area that few ventured into in that time. ... He would call his music autophysiopsychic -- music for the soul, body and spirit."
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