This concert is to celebrate Yusef Lateef's 75-years musical activity. In this concert Taka Kigawa will play his "Autophysiopsychic" ((World premiere.)

At 92 years of age Yusef Lateef is one of the greatest living masters of African-American improvised music. This will be the first full evenings concert of his music in NYC since 2000, when he was honored at AliceTully Hall for his 80th birthday. It will include 3 premieres of his through composed works and a performance of Yusef Lateef in his longstanding duet collaboration with Adam Rudolph. They have been performing as a duet at festivals and concerts worldwide since 1990. In the fall of 2012 they toured Italy and in January of 2010 they performed at Lincoln Center as Dr. Lateef received the NEA Jazz Masters Award. Taka Kigawa will world-premiere Yusef Lattef's solo piano piece, "Autophysiopsychic."

The New York Times, April 5th, 2013 - "That number is no mistake: Mr. Lateef, a flutist, saxophonist and composer of nearly mystical authority, has been making music since his teenage years. (He is now 92.) This concert celebrates his legacy in four parts: a largely improvised duet with the percussionist Adam Rudolph, his steadiest collaborator in recent years; the premiere of his String Quartet No. 2. 2012, performed by the Momenta Quartet; his “Trio in December 1998,” as executed by the saxophonists J.D. Parran, Marty Ehrlich and Alan Won; and the premiere of “Autophysiopsychic (Variations for Piano),” played by Taka Kigawa. — NATE CHINEN