''Latin Fever'' is an album by American jazz flautist
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inclu ...
recorded for the
Atlantic
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label and released in 1964.
Atlantic Records Catalog: 1400 series
accessed August 10, 2015 The album features tracks from the 1962 sessions that produced '' Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann'' with more recent recordings.
Reception
AllMusic
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awarded the album 3 stars.[Allmusic listing](_blank)
accessed August 24, 2015
Track listing
# "Harlem Nocturne
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" (Earle Hagen
Earle Harry Hagen (July 9, 1919 – May 26, 2008) was an American composer who created music for movies and television. His best-known TV themes include those for ''Make Room for Daddy'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''I Spy'', ''That Girl'' and ...
, Dick Rogers
Dick Rogers (1912—1970) was a singer, comedian, songwriter and pianist, who wrote the lyrics for " Harlem Nocturne". He was a member of the Ray Noble orchestra and the Will Osborne band.
Rogers was associated with Will Osborne, a "star cr ...
) – 2:15
# "Fever
Fever, also referred to as pyrexia, is defined as having a temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point. There is not a single agreed-upon upper limit for normal temperature with sources using val ...
" (Eddie Cooley
Edward James Cooley (April 15, 1933 – April 15, 2020) was an American R&B singer and songwriter, who co-wrote the much-recorded song "Fever." He also had a US pop hit in 1956 with "Priscilla," credited to Eddie Cooley and the Dimples.
...
, John Davenport) – 1:52
# "Not Now – Later On" (Garry Sherman, Norman Meade) – 1:51
# "The Golden Striker" (John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...
) – 2:14
# " How Insensitive" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 3:04
# "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" ( John Benson Brooks, Bob Russell) – 2:28
# "Batida Differente" (Maurício Einhorn, Durval Lelys) – 5:12
# "Nana" (Baden Powell) – 3:59
# "Groovy Samba" (Sérgio Mendes) – 5:06
# "Influenza de Jazz" (Carlos Lyra
Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa (born 11 May 1933) is a Brazilian singer and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He and Antonio Carlos Jobim, were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius ...
) – 5:38
*Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 15, 1962 (track 8), October 16, 1962 (tracks 7 & 10), October 17, 1962 (track 5) & October 19, 1962 (track 9) and in New York City on October 8, 1963 (tracks 1–3 & 6) and January 29, 1964 (track 4)
Personnel
*Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inclu ...
– flute
*Durval Ferreira (tracks 7 & 10), Baden Powell (track 8), Bill Suyker (tracks 1–3 & 6) – guitar
* Clark Terry (tracks 1–3 & 6), Pedro Paulo (tracks 7 & 10), Ernie Royal (tracks 1–3 & 6) – trumpet
*Paulo Moura
Paulo Moura (15 July 1932 – 12 July 2010) was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist.
Born in São José do Rio Preto, where his father was the maestro of a marching band and encouraged his son to train as a tailor, Paulo instead studied in ...
– alto saxophone (tracks 7 & 10)
*Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian mu ...
– piano, vocals, arranger (tracks 5 & 9)
*Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Santos Mendes (; born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his group Brasil '66. He has over 55 releases and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for ...
– piano (tracks 7 & 10)
* Paul Griffin – piano, organ (tracks 1–3 & 6)
*Gabriel (track 8), Otavio Bailly Jr. (tracks 7 & 10) – bass
*Juquinha (track 8), Dom Um Romão
Dom Um Romão (3 August 1925 – 27 July 2005) was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão also recorded with varied notable artists such as Cannonball Adderley, ...
(tracks 7 & 10), Bobby Thomas Robert, Rob, Bob, or Bobby Thomas may refer to:
Arts
* Robert Thomas (director) (1927–1989), French writer, actor and director
* Robert Thomas (sculptor) (1926–1999), Welsh sculptor
* Robert Thomas Jr., American jazz percussionist and hand d ...
(tracks 1–3 & 6) – drums
*George Devens – vibraphone
The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...
, percussion (tracks 1–3 & 6)
*Other unidentified musicians
References
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1964 albums
Herbie Mann albums
Albums produced by Nesuhi Ertegun
Atlantic Records albums