It began as a simple idea with expansive implications. Where do the sound worlds of the legendary musician and scholar Dr. Yusef Lateef lead us today, and how might his sound worlds help us understand our current world? Composer, saxophonist, flutist, and scholar, Jason Robinson, long inspired by Lateef, began exploring these questions by returning to a consistent companion in his musical studies: Lateef's 1981 book, Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns, an extensive study of musical theory and practice etudes. Like a humble thread called into service of an intricate weaving, Robinson discovered a series of inspiring miniature sounds and musical concepts drawn from Lateef’s book, transforming the ideas into rhizomorphic shapes, melodic passages, and harmonic and rhythmic ideas, ranging from small-scale motifs to large-scale forms. Raw stones polished into shimmering jewels through months of tumbling, Robinson’s music cuts to the deepest human emotions, bringing joy, longing, hope, and…