Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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13911379 | Play | Little Miss No Nose | 06:59 Tools | |
13911398 | Play | Fat Shoes | 04:51 Tools | |
13911383 | Play | The Loud Minority | 14:34 Tools | |
13911411 | Play | Shiny Stockings | 10:35 Tools | |
13911381 | Play | Little Red | 03:56 Tools | |
13911390 | Play | Blue Collar Boys | 03:52 Tools | |
13911380 | Play | Frankie And Johnnie | 04:08 Tools | |
13911426 | Play | Little Miss No Nose - 2007 Digital Remaster | 06:59 Tools | |
13911425 | Play | Raunchy Rita | 05:23 Tools | |
13911410 | Play | E.W. Beautiful People | 08:49 Tools | |
13911438 | Play | Requiem for Dusty | 06:12 Tools | |
13911385 | Play | Blues for Benny | 03:49 Tools | |
13911395 | Play | The Heat's On | 03:48 Tools | |
13911402 | Play | Simone | 12:11 Tools | |
13911424 | Play | The House That Love Built | 07:40 Tools | |
13911391 | Play | Out of Nowhere | 03:37 Tools | |
54302365 | Play | Good Ol' Girl | 04:12 Tools | |
13911387 | Play | Crazy Country Night | 03:20 Tools | |
13911392 | Play | How I Spent the Night | 05:02 Tools | |
13911416 | Play | Gettin' Right | 04:12 Tools | |
54302363 | Play | John R. And Garfield | 05:02 Tools | |
13911382 | Play | Summertime | 03:55 Tools | |
13911386 | Play | Baby Grand | 04:03 Tools | |
13911389 | Play | Christina | 03:39 Tools | |
54302364 | Play | Flyin' Down the Highway | 11:50 Tools | |
13911440 | Play | J.P.'s Thing | 11:44 Tools | |
13911420 | Play | You Gotta Be Kiddin' | 03:28 Tools | |
13911388 | Play | Festival | 04:01 Tools | |
13911413 | Play | Backwoods Babydoll | 03:39 Tools | |
54302367 | Play | Southern Man | 04:37 Tools | |
13911418 | Play | Manhattan Fever | 09:02 Tools | |
13911417 | Play | Loneliness | 02:58 Tools | |
13911384 | Play | Bumpkins | 03:51 Tools | |
13911427 | Play | Lust for Life | 03:28 Tools | |
13911396 | Play | Gracias | 04:15 Tools | |
13911415 | Play | Old Man in Me | 04:37 Tools | |
13911412 | Play | Who I Am | 04:18 Tools | |
13911441 | Play | Manhattan Fever (2007 Digital Remaster) | 10:31 Tools | |
13911394 | Play | Frankie And Johnnie (Alternate Take) | 04:06 Tools | |
13911393 | Play | Summertime (Alternate Take) | 03:55 Tools | |
13911432 | Play | Stammpede | 05:46 Tools | |
13911405 | Play | Tonight | 04:00 Tools | |
13911434 | Play | Seventh Avenue Bill | 11:50 Tools | |
13911404 | Play | About the Beer | 03:21 Tools | |
54302377 | Play | Redneck Rock N' Roll | 06:03 Tools | |
13911435 | Play | Slug's Bag | 07:08 Tools | |
88877226 | Play | Boots on the Ground | 07:08 Tools | |
87450254 | Play | Unwind | 03:59 Tools | |
13911397 | Play | Bumpkins (Alternate Take) | 03:53 Tools | |
13911437 | Play | Hip Shakin' | 07:27 Tools | |
54302368 | Play | Cut Off Jeans | 03:00 Tools | |
54302366 | Play | How I Spent the Night (Alternate Take) | 07:08 Tools | |
13911403 | Play | My Way | 03:27 Tools | |
13911421 | Play | Miss Those Days | 03:40 Tools | |
13911504 | Play | Scandia Skies | 09:57 Tools | |
13911419 | Play | Good Old Days Are Gone | 03:10 Tools | |
13911399 | Play | Rig & the Road | 03:59 Tools | |
54302372 | Play | The Gospel | 03:59 Tools | |
13911401 | Play | Amen | 03:00 Tools | |
13911408 | Play | Bringin' My Pole | 03:17 Tools | |
54302370 | Play | Outlaw Angel | 06:30 Tools | |
54302371 | Play | Over Anything | 06:30 Tools | |
13911423 | Play | Against the Wall | 04:57 Tools | |
54302373 | Play | Bayou Moon | 04:58 Tools | |
13911430 | Play | What's New From The Monster Mill | 09:24 Tools | |
13911444 | Play | Joy Spring | 08:13 Tools | |
13911407 | Play | My Biggest Fans | 03:59 Tools | |
13911433 | Play | Fly By Night | 06:42 Tools | |
13911453 | Play | Chiquito Loco | 12:31 Tools | |
13911487 | Play | Skankaroony | 07:58 Tools | |
54302381 | Play | I-20 Troubadour | 05:28 Tools | |
13911428 | Play | That Kid | 05:55 Tools | |
13911422 | Play | Been Gone | 04:52 Tools | |
54302384 | Play | Outlaw Run | 03:25 Tools | |
54302374 | Play | Blow My High (Turkey Song) | 04:52 Tools | |
13911414 | Play | Lock the Door | 04:58 Tools | |
54302380 | Play | I Cried | 03:35 Tools | |
54302376 | Play | Hard Livin' | 11:20 Tools | |
13911400 | Play | Kind I Like | 03:31 Tools | |
54302382 | Play | Build a Fire | 07:16 Tools | |
54302383 | Play | Tuff | 03:00 Tools | |
13911466 | Play | E.W. - Beautiful People | 08:38 Tools | |
87450255 | Play | Good Country Music | 02:58 Tools | |
54302369 | Play | Lone Chief Intro | 03:21 Tools | |
13911459 | Play | The Summer Knows | 06:43 Tools | |
87450261 | Play | Come on Over | 03:35 Tools | |
13911452 | Play | Rowdy Reputation | 03:00 Tools | |
87450264 | Play | Red Bird | 03:30 Tools | |
13911443 | Play | Samba Blues | 06:30 Tools | |
13911530 | Play | I Remember Sonny Stitt | 04:06 Tools | |
54302375 | Play | Dear Heroes | 11:20 Tools | |
87450262 | Play | Gabriel | 07:27 Tools | |
87450256 | Play | Carolina Blue | 03:35 Tools | |
54302385 | Play | Romance in the South | 03:25 Tools | |
54302379 | Play | Livin' the Dream | 03:35 Tools | |
13911469 | Play | Real Woman | 01:30 Tools | |
13911464 | Play | Night Song | 08:45 Tools | |
13911439 | Play | Giant's Steps | 07:08 Tools | |
13911500 | Play | Stop Gap | 06:03 Tools | |
13911475 | Play | Loneliness - 2007 Digital Remaster | 02:58 Tools | |
54302435 | Play | Back Road Buzz | 06:42 Tools | |
88877227 | Play | 'Til I'm Gone | 06:42 Tools | |
87450263 | Play | Pete and John | 07:27 Tools | |
13911409 | Play | Miss Janie | 03:35 Tools | |
13911447 | Play | Janie Huk | 11:20 Tools | |
13911445 | Play | Dirt Road | 06:17 Tools | |
88877228 | Play | Something Bout Being Free | 06:17 Tools | |
13911446 | Play | Country to the Bone | 03:54 Tools | |
13911561 | Play | Alternative | 08:58 Tools | |
88877229 | Play | Little Miss No Nose - Remastered | 08:58 Tools | |
13911455 | Play | Theme for Ernie | 10:01 Tools | |
13911468 | Play | Campfire | 03:41 Tools | |
13911541 | Play | Casa Del Marcel | 06:33 Tools | |
13911460 | Play | Good Enough for Me | 03:41 Tools | |
13911471 | Play | Hip Shakin' - 2007 Digital Remaster | 07:27 Tools | |
13911493 | Play | Apron Strings | 03:55 Tools | |
13911431 | Play | Some of Us Still Do | 04:42 Tools | |
88877230 | Play | Where The Road Gets Rough | 04:42 Tools | |
13911457 | Play | Whiskey On the House | 04:32 Tools | |
13911513 | Play | Baby Ann | 06:05 Tools | |
13911448 | Play | While The City Sleeps | 04:26 Tools | |
13911560 | Play | Gulf Coast Cowboy | 03:48 Tools | |
13911505 | Play | Excursion | 05:14 Tools | |
13911456 | Play | Little Miss No Nose (2007 Digital Remaster) | 06:57 Tools | |
13911442 | Play | Blues Ain't Nothing But a Trip | 12:42 Tools | |
13911507 | Play | Leo Rising | 08:04 Tools | |
87450267 | Play | Louisiana | 09:21 Tools | |
13911538 | Play | Disapproachment | 05:47 Tools | |
13911483 | Play | Show The Good Side - Instrumental | 05:54 Tools | |
13911512 | Play | Chiquito Loco - Instrumental | 08:54 Tools | |
13911484 | Play | Cidade Alto | 03:29 Tools | |
13911499 | Play | Thingaroo | 03:37 Tools | |
13911529 | Play | Show The Good Side | 05:57 Tools | |
13911494 | Play | Gray Thursday | 07:16 Tools | |
13911559 | Play | When April Comes Again | 05:28 Tools | |
13911508 | Play | Loneliness (2007 Digital Remaster) | 02:57 Tools | |
13911486 | Play | Takin' You | 00:30 Tools | |
13911534 | Play | You Gotta Be Kiddin' (2007 Digital Remaster) | 03:29 Tools | |
13911451 | Play | Joyspring | 08:15 Tools | |
13911488 | Play | Derricksterity | 06:31 Tools | |
13911565 | Play | Joy Sping | 08:13 Tools | |
13911506 | Play | Jitterbug Waltz | 09:24 Tools | |
13911429 | Play | You Gotta Be Kiddin' - 2007 Digital Remaster | 03:30 Tools | |
13911470 | Play | You're Only As Old As You Look | 08:06 Tools | |
87450266 | Play | Something 'Bout Being Free | 05:25 Tools | |
88877231 | Play | In the Wind | 05:25 Tools | |
13911509 | Play | While The City Sleeps - Instrumental | 04:23 Tools | |
88877232 | Play | #3 Sticker | 04:23 Tools | |
54302392 | Play | E.W.-beautiful People | 08:53 Tools | |
13911472 | Play | Nevada Mood | 03:19 Tools | |
13911528 | Play | Seventh Avenue Bill (2007 Digital Remaster) | 11:47 Tools | |
88877233 | Play | This Evenin' | 11:47 Tools | |
13911458 | Play | Harlem rumble | 03:25 Tools | |
54302387 | Play | La Route Aux Quatre Chansons | 11:16 Tools | |
13911540 | Play | Skankaroony - Instrumental | 07:55 Tools | |
13911502 | Play | Last Night When We Were Young | 11:16 Tools | |
13911552 | Play | While the City Sleep | 04:26 Tools | |
88877234 | Play | Playin' for Drinks | 04:26 Tools | |
54302386 | Play | A L'Ombre Du Coeur De Ma Mie | 03:25 Tools | |
13911572 | Play | Cecilia Is Love | 06:28 Tools | |
13911480 | Play | Manhattan Fever - 2007 Digital Remaster | 10:34 Tools | |
13911575 | Play | Giant Steps | 07:06 Tools | |
13911491 | Play | Hip Shakin' (2007 Digital Remaster) | 07:25 Tools | |
13911473 | Play | I'll Take Romance | 05:25 Tools | |
13911489 | Play | Culf Coast Cowboy | 03:51 Tools | |
54302388 | Play | The House That Love Built (2007 Digital Remaster) | 04:23 Tools | |
13911477 | Play | Slug's Bag (2007 Digital Remaster) | 07:05 Tools | |
88877235 | Play | Homebody Ramblin' Man Blues | 07:05 Tools | |
88877236 | Play | Age | 07:05 Tools | |
13911510 | Play | The Things We Did Last Summer | 04:02 Tools | |
13911479 | Play | Straight, No Chaser | 00:00 Tools | |
54302389 | Play | Basic-Ally Yours | 04:23 Tools | |
13911501 | Play | Sweet Mirage | 09:21 Tools | |
88877237 | Play | Beer Drinkin' Buddies | 09:21 Tools | |
54302430 | Play | Two Franks | 06:42 Tools | |
54302390 | Play | Ew Beautiful People | 09:21 Tools | |
13911545 | Play | What's New From The Monster Mill (2007 Digital Remaster) | 09:22 Tools | |
13911532 | Play | Serenata | 04:52 Tools | |
13911582 | Play | Vested Interest | 08:31 Tools | |
13911496 | Play | While The City Sleeps (Instrumental) | 04:23 Tools | |
13911462 | Play | Georgia on My Mind (quartet) | 06:38 Tools | |
54302391 | Play | Three Card molly | 00:00 Tools | |
13911580 | Play | Jp's Thing | 11:31 Tools | |
13911492 | Play | My Heart Stood Still | 06:08 Tools | |
13911461 | Play | Fosterity (Quintet) | 06:14 Tools | |
13911485 | Play | Seventh Avenue Bill - 2007 Digital Remaster | 11:51 Tools | |
13911454 | Play | Loop-D-Loop | 06:53 Tools | |
13911482 | Play | Stammpede - 2007 Digital Remaster | 05:47 Tools | |
13911573 | Play | Night Song - Instrumental | 08:45 Tools | |
13911524 | Play | Chiquito Loco (Instrumental) | 08:53 Tools | |
87450268 | Play | Talkin' you | 07:56 Tools | |
13911581 | Play | Stammpede (2007 Digital Remaster) | 05:45 Tools | |
13911578 | Play | The House That Love Built - 2007 Digital Remaster | 03:30 Tools | |
13911525 | Play | Why Try To Change Me Now | 04:14 Tools | |
54302394 | Play | Counter Block | 10:34 Tools | |
13911467 | Play | Zarou (Quintet) | 05:13 Tools | |
54302393 | Play | Winners | 10:34 Tools | |
13911474 | Play | Yaho (Quintet) | 07:40 Tools | |
13911557 | Play | Skankaroony (Instrumental) | 07:56 Tools | |
54302438 | Play | Kelly Blue | 09:28 Tools | |
13911495 | Play | Dacor | 00:00 Tools | |
13911535 | Play | Just 40 Bars | 04:35 Tools | |
54302395 | Play | Ode To Joe Newman | 10:34 Tools | |
54302396 | Play | Lady In Lace | 05:45 Tools | |
54302397 | Play | A Fresh Taste Of The Blues | 05:45 Tools | |
13911463 | Play | Shutout (Quintet) | 05:48 Tools | |
13911566 | Play | Victorious Blues | 06:37 Tools | |
13911562 | Play | Magic | 00:00 Tools | |
13911569 | Play | Escale a Victoria | 04:44 Tools | |
54302398 | Play | Mean What You Say | 04:44 Tools | |
54302437 | Play | May We | 09:28 Tools | |
13911583 | Play | Fly By Night - 2007 Digital Remaster | 06:42 Tools | |
13911450 | Play | Li'l Darlin' | 05:39 Tools | |
13911577 | Play | Slug's Bag - 2007 Digital Remaster | 07:08 Tools | |
13911449 | Play | Just Squeeze Me | 07:04 Tools | |
54302399 | Play | There'll Be A Time | 07:40 Tools | |
13911585 | Play | Show The Good Side (Instrumental) | 05:54 Tools | |
13911526 | Play | Love Handles | 05:00 Tools | |
88877238 | Play | Tomorrow's Blues Today | 05:00 Tools | |
87450269 | Play | Little Miss No Nose (2007 Remaster) | 03:36 Tools | |
13911521 | Play | What's New From The Monster Mill - 2007 Digital Remaster | 09:25 Tools | |
54302401 | Play | Why Try To Change Me Now? | 05:54 Tools | |
54302402 | Play | Now That She's Away | 04:35 Tools | |
13911539 | Play | Night Song (Instrumental) | 08:46 Tools | |
54302403 | Play | Gracias (1998 Digital Remaster) | 08:46 Tools | |
13911490 | Play | Out Of Nowhere (1998 Digital Remaster) | 03:36 Tools | |
88877239 | Play | Shiny Stockings (Depaul University Jazz Ensemble feat. conductor: Robert Lark) | 03:36 Tools | |
54302415 | Play | Little Miss No Rose | 06:27 Tools | |
54302432 | Play | Oncle Archibald | 06:42 Tools | |
54302404 | Play | J.P.'s thing 3 | 03:36 Tools | |
54302410 | Play | Simone - Live | 03:29 Tools | |
13911503 | Play | Wail, Frank wail (Quartet) | 06:25 Tools | |
54302405 | Play | Ew-Beautiful People | 05:47 Tools | |
54302406 | Play | Little Red (1998 Digital Remaster) | 05:47 Tools | |
13911553 | Play | Fly By Night (2007 Digital Remaster) | 06:40 Tools | |
54302407 | Play | Well Water | 05:47 Tools | |
13911574 | Play | You Gotta Be Kiddin | 03:29 Tools | |
87450273 | Play | Little Red - 1998 Digital Remaster | 06:42 Tools | |
54302408 | Play | The Loud Minority 1 | 03:29 Tools | |
54302409 | Play | Samba Blue | 03:29 Tools | |
54302417 | Play | Shiny Stockings - Live | 06:27 Tools | |
87450271 | Play | I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do | 00:00 Tools | |
54302412 | Play | The Biddle-De-Bop Samba | 06:25 Tools | |
54302413 | Play | Shunga | 06:27 Tools | |
13911465 | Play | Mo-Lasses | 06:27 Tools | |
54302420 | Play | Been Here And Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
13911547 | Play | Four, Five, Six | 06:25 Tools | |
54302424 | Play | Send In The Clowns | 00:00 Tools | |
54302411 | Play | E.W.-beautiful People 4 | 06:25 Tools | |
13911542 | Play | Dunbar's Delight | 10:39 Tools | |
13911497 | Play | A.M. Romp | 06:52 Tools | |
54302419 | Play | Two For The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
54302414 | Play | requiem forr dusty | 06:27 Tools | |
54302421 | Play | M.C. | 00:00 Tools | |
54302416 | Play | Requiem for dusty 2 | 06:27 Tools | |
13911551 | Play | John R and Garfield | 00:30 Tools | |
54302418 | Play | Blues For Benny (1998 Digital Remaster) | 10:39 Tools | |
13911544 | Play | Lightly Stroking | 09:28 Tools | |
13911436 | Play | Whiskey On The House | 00:00 Tools | |
54302422 | Play | Nancy With The Laughing Face | 00:00 Tools | |
87450270 | Play | How I Spent The Night (alt. take) | 00:00 Tools | |
54302423 | Play | Giant Steps - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
88877240 | Play | Blues For Benny - 1998 Digital Remaster | 00:00 Tools | |
54302425 | Play | Theme for Ernie - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
54302426 | Play | A Blues Ain't Nothing but a Trip - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
54302427 | Play | Joy Spring - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
54302428 | Play | Chiquito Loco - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
88877241 | Play | Requiem for a Dusty 1972 | 00:00 Tools | |
87450272 | Play | Blues Backstage | 00:00 Tools | |
54302439 | Play | A Time For Love | 09:28 Tools | |
54302429 | Play | The Heat's On (1998 Digital Remaster) | 06:42 Tools | |
54302431 | Play | Someone's Rockin My Jazz Boat | 06:42 Tools | |
88877242 | Play | How I Spent The Night - 1998 Digital Remaster | 06:42 Tools | |
87450274 | Play | Lover | 06:42 Tools | |
54302433 | Play | Jester Blues | 06:42 Tools | |
87450275 | Play | Square Knights Of The Round Table | 06:42 Tools | |
54302434 | Play | Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most | 06:42 Tools | |
54302436 | Play | Who Me? | 09:28 Tools | |
87450276 | Play | I'll Take a Romance | 09:28 Tools |
Frank Foster (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s. Foster was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at Wilberforce University. In 1949, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he joined the local jazz scene, playing with musicians such as Wardell Gray. Drafted into the US Army in 1951, Foster served in Korea with the 7th Infantry Division. Upon finishing his military service in 1953 he joined Count Basie's big band. Foster contributed both arrangements and original compositions to Count Basie’s band including the standard “Shiny Stockings”, and other popular songs such as “Down for the Count”, “Blues Backstage”, “Back to the Apple”, “Discommotion”, and “Blues in Hoss Flat”, as well as arrangements for the entire Easin’ It album. From 1970 to 1972 (and on occasional later dates) he played with Elvin Jones, and in 1972 and 1975 with the Thad Jones–Mel Lewis big band. Foster was an Artist in Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1971. That same year, he also started teaching for the New York City Public School System in District 5, Harlem, as part of a team of six professional musicians assigned to the Federal Government’s Title I Program: Cultural Enrichment Through Music, Dance, and Song. From 1972 to 1976, Foster was full-time Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY). Foster also formed and lead several groups, most notably Living Color and The Loud Minority. He co-led a quintet with Frank Wess in 1983, and toured Europe as a member of Jimmy Smith's quintet in 1985. In June 1986 Foster succeeded Thad Jones as leader of the Count Basie Orchestra. While leading the Basie Orchestra, Foster received two Grammy Awards: first for his big-band arrangement of the Diane Schuur composition "Deedles’ Blues" (Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal, Jazz category, 1987), and second for his arrangement of guitarist/vocalist George Benson’s composition "Basie’s Bag" (Best Big Band Instrumental, Jazz category, 1988). After leaving the band in 1995, Foster resumed his leadership of three musical groups: The Non-Electric Company (a jazz quartet/quintet), Swing Plus (a 12-piece band), and The Loud Minority Big Band (an 18-piece concert jazz orchestra), each of which he had organized years prior to assuming leadership of the Basie unit in 1986. Frank Foster suffered a stroke in 2001 that impaired his left side to the extent that he could no longer play the saxophone. After continuing to lead the Loud Minority on limited engagements for much of the 2000s, he turned his leadership responsibilities for the band over to Cecil Bridgewater, a prominent New York City jazz musician. Until his death Foster continued composing and arranging at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he resided with his wife and personal manager of nearly 45 years, Cecilia Foster.[4] Frank is survived by six children: Frank Jr., Donald, Tony and Jardisse Foster, Aaron Kinsley-Brooks and Willow Sumner. Foster received two Grammy Awards: the first, for his big band arrangement of the Diane Schuur composition “Deedles’ Blues“ (Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal, 1987), and the second for his arrangement of guitarist/vocalist George Benson’s composition “Basie’s Bag” (Best Instrumental Arrangement, Jazz Category, 1988). He also received two Grammy nominations: for his big band arrangement of Charles Trenet’s composition "Beyond the Sea", and for an album with his fellow Basie alumnus Frank Wess entitled Frankly Speaking. He composed and orchestrated material for The Carnegie Hall Jazz Ensemble, The Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra, The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble, The Jazzmobile Corporation of New York City, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Malaysia Symphony Orchestra, The Metropole Orchestra of Hilversum, the Netherlands, and The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1983 Dizzy Gillespie personally commissioned Frank Foster to orchestrate one of the jazz icon’s compositions, “Con Alma”, for a scheduled performance and recording with The London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Robert Farnon. In 1987, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Central State University in Wilberforce. In 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts presented Foster with its NEA Jazz Masters Award, the highest honor in jazz. Foster was commissioned by The Harpers Ferry Historical Association of West Virginia to compose a jazz suite of ten to fifteen minutes' duration in connection with the Niagara Movement, relating to John Brown’s famous raid on Harpers Ferry. The suite was performed by the Count Basie Orchestra at Harpers Ferry as part of the three-day Niagara Movement celebration in August 2006. Jazz at Lincoln Center commissioned Foster to compose and arrange music for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, directed by Wynton Marsalis, for performances on March 13-15, 2008, with "A Man and a Woman" as the theme. Foster wrote the words, music, and orchestrations for "I Love You (Based on Your Availability)" and "Romance Without Substance Is a Nuisance", both performed by vocalists Dennis Rowland and Marlena Shaw. On March 20, 2009, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jon Faddis, performed a three-part suite by Foster titled "Chi-Town Is My Town and My Town’s No Shy Town" at the Harris Theater in Chicago. In 2009, Foster selected The Jazz Archive at Duke University to be the home for his numerous compositions, arrangements, and personal papers. Frank Foster became a great supporter of The Jazz Foundation of America in their mission to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. After receiving help from the Jazz Foundation, he supported the cause by performing in their Annual Benefit Concert "A Great Night in Harlem" in 2008. He donated his gold-plated tenor sax to be auctioned by the Jazz Foundation of America, the proceeds of which went to support the foundation's non-profit programs, especially working gigs and educational programs for victims of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. 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