Manhattan Fever

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Manhattan Fever | type = Album | artist = Frank Foster | cover = Manhattan Fever.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = March 21, 1968 January 31, 1969 (bonus tracks) | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 41:37 | label = Blue Note | producer = Duke Pearson | chronology = Frank Foster | prev_title = Soul Outing! | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = The Loud Minority | next_year = 1974 }}

'''''Manhattan Fever''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.<ref name="Blue Note Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-4200-series/#blp-4278 Blue Note Records discography] accessed December 9, 2010</ref> The CD reissue added five previously unreleased recordings from a 1969 session as bonus tracks.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/discography-1969-1970/#690131 Blue Note sessionography] accessed December 9, 2010</ref>

==Reception== The Allmusic review by Steve Leggett awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Foster's compositional and arranging talents are at center stage, but when he steps out front as a soloist like he does on "The House That Love Built," he shows why he is a top line tenor sax player".<ref name="Allmusic">Leggett, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/manhattan-fever-r138864/review Allmusic Review] accessed December 9, 2010</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=501}}</ref> }}

==Track listing== :''All compositions by Frank Foster, except as indicated'' # "Little Miss No Nose" - 7:01 # "Manhattan Fever" - 10:33 # "Loneliness" - 2:58 # "Stammpede" - 5:46 # "You Gotta Be Kiddin'" - 3:29 # "Seventh Avenue Bill" (Bill English) - 11:50 # "Slug's Bag" (Mickey Tucker) - 7:07 Bonus track on CD reissue # "What's New from the Monster Mill" - 9:24 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Hip Shakin'" - 7:26 Bonus track on CD reissue # "The House That Love Built" - 3:29 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Fly by Night" (Rahsaan Roland Kirk) - 6:41 Bonus track on CD reissue :*Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 21, 1968 (tracks 1–6) and January 31, 1969 (tracks 7–11).

==Personnel== *Frank Foster - tenor saxophone, alto clarinet *Marvin Stamm - trumpet (tracks 1, 2 & 4–6) *Burt Collins - trumpet, piccolo trumpet (tracks 7–9 & 11) *Garnett Brown (tracks 1, 2 & 4–6), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks 7–9 & 11) - trombone *Kenny Rogers - baritone saxophone *Ed Pazant - alto saxophone, flute, oboe (tracks 7–9 & 11) *Richard Wyands (tracks 1–6), George Cables (tracks 7–11) - piano *Bob Cranshaw - bass, electric bass (tracks 1–6) *Buster Williams - bass (tracks 7–11) *Mickey Roker - drums

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