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Yusef's mastery of musical fusion came to a head with his final two Prestige albums: Eastern Sounds and Into Something (both 1961, released on Moodsville and New Jazz respectively). Although many of the recordings featured, blending jazz standards with blues and soundtrack formats alongside his own compositions, with a piano, bass and drums backing group, were in a commonplace format for jazz of the era, Lateef's own skill at improvisation and arrangement combined these elements into something entirely unique. The early 1960s also saw him appear as sideman on albums by the likes of Charles Mingus and Art Blakey and as a permanent member of Cannonball Adderley's group between 1962 and 1964. He signed to the Impulse! label in 1963 and would become such an influence on label-mate John Coltrane that Coltrane himself would incorporate Eastern sounds into his own music during his final years. In 1967, Lateef signed to Atlantic, where he would remain for nearly 25 years. He began to experiment even further with genre, fully embracing the soul and gospel leanings that would be evident on Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969) and Hush 'N' Thunder (1972). Lateef famously - like cotemporaries Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Sonny Rollins - was strongly opposed to being labelled a "jazz musician," instead preferring to describe his style as "autophysiopsychic music," which he personally defined as "music which comes from one's physical, mental and spiritual self." In 1987, at the age of 67, Yusef won a Grammy for Best New-Age Album with his solo work Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony. He earned numerous other musical and academic awards throughout his career, including the Jazz Master Fellowship Award from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) in 2010 and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Manhattan School of Music in 2012. Yusef Lateef would continue to teach, compose, record and perform for the remainder of his life; he passed away on 23rd December 2013 at the age of 93.

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