In the fifties and sixties, Yusef Lateef recorded dozens of LPs that many would consider to be “mainstream” jazz, working with the likes of such artists as Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley, Curtis Fuller, Donald Byrd, Ernie Wilkins, Grant Green, Ray Brown, and Slide Hampton. In the early 1970s, however, he began describing his music as “autophysiopsychic,” coming from the body, mind, and heart, which he felt was personified by the tenor saxophonist Lester “Pres” Young. “The way he caused you to feel when you listened to his music was the way he really was,” Lateef wrote about Lester. “If you felt joy, he felt joy; if you felt sadness, he felt sadness, et cetera. In other words, his musical voice could never be divorced from his character.”