Universal Music and Third Man have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series Verve By Request, focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Group’s iconic labels. Albums will be newly remastered from original analog sources when available, and pressed on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl at Third Man Pressing in Detroit.

• Verve By Request Series
• 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Cut by Kevin Reeves
• Pressed by Third Man Pressing, USA
• Gatefold Cover

Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group’s stable of iconic labels, the series will offer two titles per month – each hand-picked by Verve and Third Man Records. The records will include both long-out-of-print titles from the vault as well as the first-ever vinyl pressings for albums released in the ‘90s and aughts that were only originally released on CD. Albums will be newly remastered from original analog sources, when available, and pressed on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl at Third Man Pressing in Detroit. 

This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Lateef runs the gamut musically, from the Coltrane influenced “Semi-Octo” to soulful reads of standards from Hammerstein/Kern, Fats Waller and Erik Satie, and a beautifully rendered original “Bamboo Flute Blues”.

Musicians:

Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, oboe

Georges Arvanitas - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
James Black - drums

Track Listing:

A1. Psychicemotus
A2. Bamboo Flute Blues
A3. Semiocto
A4. Why Do I Love You?
B1. First Gymnopedie
B2. Medula Sonata
B3. I’ll Always Be In Love With You
B4. Ain’t Misbehavin’

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