This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Yusef 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’.

This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.

Tracklist

Side A
1. Psychicemotus
2. Flute Blues
3. Semiocto
4. Why Do I Love You?

Side B
5. First Gymnopedie
6. Medula Sonata
7. I’ll Always Be In Love With You
8. Ain’t Misbehavin’