The Golden Flute

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The Golden Flute
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Studio album by
Yusef Lateef
ReleasedJanuary 1967
RecordedJune 15–16, 1966
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length39:40
Label Impulse!
A-9125
Producer Bob Thiele
Yusef Lateef chronology
A Flat, G Flat and C
(1966)		The Golden Flute
(1967)		 The Complete Yusef Lateef
(1967)

The Golden Flute is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Yusef Lateef except as noted

  1. "Road Runner" - 4:47
  2. "Straighten Up and Fly Right" (Nat King Cole, Irving Mills) - 3:28
  3. "Oasis" - 4:26
  4. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 4:06
  5. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:57
  6. "The Golden Flute" - 3:56
  7. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) - 3:54
  8. "Head Hunters" (Barry Harris, Hugh Lawson) - 4:35
  9. "The Smart Set" (Roy Brooks) - 7:31

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Impulse! Records discography accessed April 6, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 6, 2011
  3. ↑ 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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