Yusef Lateef (b. Chattanooga, TN, Oct. 9, 1920; d. Shutesbury, MA, July 25, 2013) was an American tenor saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He grew up in Detroit and performed with the bands of Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge and others. In 1948, he converted to Islam, joining the Ahmadiyya community, a revival movement within Sunni Islam. He performed for two years with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra (1948-9). Lateef moved to New York City in 1960, where he performed with Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, and Grant Green. Education was an important dimension of his life and career as a musician and composer, both as a student and teacher. Lateef is known for work on tenor saxophone and flute. He also played oboe. His musical activities also engaged exploration of timbre, non-Western approaches to improvisation, and use of non-Western instruments. He developed the concept of "autophysiopsychic" music as a corrective to some of the ways that the common conceptions of "jazz" reinforce racialized stereotypes. Lateef wrote both music and prose and devoted himself to teaching in the later part of his life. (Sources: Helgert, L. Lateef, Yusef. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 08 Aug. 2022. Monson, Ingrid. Yusef Lateef's Audiophysiopsychic Quest. Daedalus, 148/2(2019).)