The Golden Flute
1967 studio album by Yusef Lateef
The Golden Flute | ||||
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Studio album by Yusef Lateef | ||||
Released | January 1967 | |||
Recorded | June 15–16, 1966 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 39:40 | |||
Label | Impulse! A-9125 | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
Yusef Lateef chronology | ||||
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The Golden Flute is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Lateef has long been a true original, and he revitalizes the standards while always swinging and being a bit unpredictable. Well worth searching for".[2]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Track listing
All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as noted.
- "Road Runner" - 4:47
- "Straighten Up and Fly Right" (Nat King Cole, Irving Mills) - 3:28
- "Oasis" - 4:26
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 4:06
- "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:57
- "The Golden Flute" - 3:56
- "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) - 3:54
- "Head Hunters" (Barry Harris, Hugh Lawson) - 4:35
- "The Smart Set" (Roy Brooks) - 7:31
- Recorded on June 15, 1966 (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7 & 8) and June 16, 1966 (tracks 2, 5, 6 & 9)
Personnel
- Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute, oboe
- Hugh Lawson – piano
- Herman Wright – bass
- Roy Brooks Jr. – drums
References
- ^ Impulse! Records discography accessed April 6, 2011
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 6, 2011
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader
- Jazz for the Thinker (1957)
- Jazz Mood (1957)
- Before Dawn (1957)
- Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957)
- Prayer to the East (1957)
- The Sounds of Yusef (1957)
- Other Sounds (1957)
- Lateef at Cranbrook (1958)
- The Dreamer (1959)
- The Fabric of Jazz (1959)
- Cry! – Tender (1959)
- Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef|Contemplation (1960)
- The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960)
- The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960)
- Lost in Sound (1961)
- Eastern Sounds (1961)
- Into Something (1961)
- Jazz 'Round the World (1963)
- Live at Pep's (1964)
- 1984 (1965)
- Psychicemotus (1965)
- A Flat, G Flat and C (1966)
- The Golden Flute (1966)
- The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967)
- The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968)
- Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969)
- The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969)
- Suite 16 (1970)
- The Gentle Giant (1971)
- Hush 'N' Thunder (1972)
- Part of the Search (1973)
- 10 Years Hence (1974)
- The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976)
- Autophysiopsychic (1977)
- In a Temple Garden (1979)
- In Nigeria (1983)
- Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
album
- Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)
others
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s)
- Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955)
- Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960)
- My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960)
- 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
- Images of Curtis Fuller (1960)
- Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960)
- Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
- Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960)
- Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961)
- The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962)
- The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962)
- Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964)
- Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971)
- Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974)
- Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977)
- Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)