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
• 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. 

Released in 1971 on Impulse and recorded with two different ensembles, Thembi marked a departure from the slowly developing, side-long, mantra-like grooves Sanders had been pursuing for much of his solo career. Instead, it offers an intriguingly wide range of relatively concise ideas resulting in something of an anomaly in Sanders' prime period. Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

Musicians:

Pharoah Sanders - saxophone, alto flute, koto, bells, marimba, maracas, fife, horn, percussion
Michael White - violin, percussion
Lonnie Liston Smith piano, electric piano, cymbal, marimba, claves, percussion
Cecil McBee - bass, percussion
Clifford Jarvis drums, maracas, bells, percussion
Roy Haynes - drums
Majid Shabazz - percussion
James Bey - percussion
Anthony Wiles - percussion
Nat Bettis - percussion

Track Listing:

1. Astral Traveling
2. Red, Black & Green
3. Thembi
4. Love
5. Morning Prayer
6. Bailophone Dance

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