Love Theme from Spartacus

Alex North wrote the theme for Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, which premiered in the US on October 6, 1960, and the score was nominated for an Oscar. Lateef recorded it with Harris, Farrow and Humphries on September 5, 1961. Jazz Journal says the oboe gives it a winding, serpentine quality imbued with trademark Lateef signatures, and Jazz Impressions calls it more intimate and slower than the orchestral original. An All About Jazz snippet says it was the first cover of North's theme, which we could not verify. A 7-inch single version was issued, and Ace's BGP label reissued it paired with Cannonball Adderley's "Brother John" with notes by Dean Rudland; we found no original single details. Other musicians who recorded North's theme include Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Ramsey Lewis and Gabor Szabo.

Nujabes sampled this version in "The Final View" on Metaphorical Music (August 21, 2003), and A.G. used it in a track on Everything Is Berri. Setlist.fm's 299 Lateef setlists do not include the song. We found no statement from Lateef on it, and our upload is presumably the album track.