Latin Fever

by Herbie Mann

Latin Fever cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Atlantic, Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.49/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Latin Fever' continues Herbie Mann's long engagement with Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz forms. The album places flute-led improvisation over rhythmic settings that connect jazz accessibility with the period's growing appetite for Brazilian and Caribbean influences.

Genres

Descriptors: Rhythmic, Instrumental, Percussive, fusion, flute, instrumental, covers, dance

Tracklist

  1. Harlem Nocturne
  2. Fever
  3. Not Now – Later On
  4. The Golden Striker
  5. Insensatez
  6. You Came a Long Way from St. Louis
  7. Batida Differente
  8. Nana
  9. Groovy Samba
  10. Influenza de Jazz

Credits

  • Herbie Mann - primary artist, flute, arranged by
  • Loring Eutemey - artwork [cover]
  • Phil Ramone - engineer [recording]
  • Tom Dowd - engineer [recording]
  • Umberto - engineer [recording]
  • Nesuhi Ertegun - supervised by
  • Earle Hagen - written-by
  • Eddie Cooley - written-by
  • John Davenport - written-by
  • Garry Sherman - written-by
  • Norman Meade - written-by
  • John Lewis - written-by
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim - written-by
  • Bob Russell - written-by
  • John Benson Brooks - written-by
  • Durval Ferreira - written-by
  • Mauricio Einhorn - written-by
  • Baden Powell - written-by
  • Sérgio Mendes - written-by
  • Carlos Lyra - written-by

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