Fever (Ronnie Laws album)

Fever
Studio album by Ronnie Laws
Released	1976 1992 (re-release)
Recorded	December 26 & 29, 1975, January 16, 1976 and February–March, 1976
Studio	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:02
Label	Blue Note
Producer	George Butler
Ronnie Laws chronology
Pressure Sensitive (1975) Fever (1976) Friends & Strangers (1977)

Fever is the second album by American saxophonist Ronnie Laws released in 1976 by Blue Note Records. ^[1] The album reached No. 13 on the Billboard Top Soul LPs chart. ^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

The AllMusic review by Alex Henderson states, "Because Laws has recorded so many throwaways, one has to approach his catalog with caution; but rest assured that Fever puts his talent to work instead of wasting it". ^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ronnie Laws except as indicated

1. "Let's Keep It Together" – 4:30
2. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) – 3:24
3. "All the Time" (William Jeffery) – 4:00
4. "Stay Still (And Let Me Love You)" (Margie Joseph, Arif Mardin) – 7:24
5. "Strugglin'" (W. Murray) – 4:08
6. "Captain Midnite" – 2:58
7. "Karmen" – 3:47
8. "Night Breeze" (Bobby Lyle) – 6:29
9. "From Ronnie with Love" – 4:22

Recorded at Total Experience Studios in Los Angeles, California between December 1975 and March 1976.

Personnel

• Ronnie Laws – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
• Donald Hepburn, Michael Hepburn, Bobby Lyle – electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer
• Marlin the Magician – guitar
• Wilton Felder, Nathaniel Phillips – electric bass
• Bruce Carter, Steve Guttierez – drums
• Bruce Smith – percussion
• Tony Ben – conga
• Murray Adler, Bonnie Douglas, Henry Ferber, Elliott Fisher, Ronald Folsom, James Getzoff, William Kurash, Joy Lyle, Gordon Marron, Paul C. Shure, Felix Sitjar, Carroll Stephens – violin
• Jesse Ehrlich, Nathan Gershman, Raymond J. Kelley, Victor Sazer – vocals
• Ronald Coleman, Augie Johnson, Esau Joyner, Michael Miller, Deborah Shotlow, Douglas Thomas – backing vocals

References

1. Fever. Ronnie Laws. Blue Note Records. 1976.
2. "Ronnie Laws Chart History". Billboard .^{[ dead link ]}
3. "Ronnie Laws: Fever". allmusic.com.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  124. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 871. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.