Frank Foster

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Little Miss No Nose 06:59 Tools
Fat Shoes 04:51 Tools
The Loud Minority 14:34 Tools
Shiny Stockings 10:35 Tools
Little Red 03:56 Tools
Blue Collar Boys 03:52 Tools
Frankie And Johnnie 04:08 Tools
Little Miss No Nose - 2007 Digital Remaster 06:59 Tools
Raunchy Rita 05:23 Tools
E.W. Beautiful People 08:49 Tools
Requiem for Dusty 06:12 Tools
Blues for Benny 03:49 Tools
The Heat's On 03:48 Tools
Simone 12:11 Tools
The House That Love Built 07:40 Tools
Out of Nowhere 03:37 Tools
Good Ol' Girl 04:12 Tools
Crazy Country Night 03:20 Tools
How I Spent the Night 05:02 Tools
Gettin' Right 04:12 Tools
John R. And Garfield 05:02 Tools
Summertime 03:55 Tools
Baby Grand 04:03 Tools
Christina 03:39 Tools
Flyin' Down the Highway 11:50 Tools
J.P.'s Thing 11:44 Tools
You Gotta Be Kiddin' 03:28 Tools
Festival 04:01 Tools
Backwoods Babydoll 03:39 Tools
Southern Man 04:37 Tools
Manhattan Fever 09:02 Tools
Loneliness 02:58 Tools
Bumpkins 03:51 Tools
Lust for Life 03:28 Tools
Gracias 04:15 Tools
Old Man in Me 04:37 Tools
Who I Am 04:18 Tools
Manhattan Fever (2007 Digital Remaster) 10:31 Tools
Frankie And Johnnie (Alternate Take) 04:06 Tools
Summertime (Alternate Take) 03:55 Tools
Stammpede 05:46 Tools
Tonight 04:00 Tools
Seventh Avenue Bill 11:50 Tools
About the Beer 03:21 Tools
Redneck Rock N' Roll 06:03 Tools
Slug's Bag 07:08 Tools
Boots on the Ground 07:08 Tools
Unwind 03:59 Tools
Bumpkins (Alternate Take) 03:53 Tools
Hip Shakin' 07:27 Tools
Cut Off Jeans 03:00 Tools
How I Spent the Night (Alternate Take) 07:08 Tools
My Way 03:27 Tools
Miss Those Days 03:40 Tools
Scandia Skies 09:57 Tools
Good Old Days Are Gone 03:10 Tools
Rig & the Road 03:59 Tools
The Gospel 03:59 Tools
Amen 03:00 Tools
Bringin' My Pole 03:17 Tools
Outlaw Angel 06:30 Tools
Over Anything 06:30 Tools
Against the Wall 04:57 Tools
Bayou Moon 04:58 Tools
What's New From The Monster Mill 09:24 Tools
Joy Spring 08:13 Tools
My Biggest Fans 03:59 Tools
Fly By Night 06:42 Tools
Chiquito Loco 12:31 Tools
Skankaroony 07:58 Tools
I-20 Troubadour 05:28 Tools
That Kid 05:55 Tools
Been Gone 04:52 Tools
Outlaw Run 03:25 Tools
Blow My High (Turkey Song) 04:52 Tools
Lock the Door 04:58 Tools
I Cried 03:35 Tools
Hard Livin' 11:20 Tools
Kind I Like 03:31 Tools
Build a Fire 07:16 Tools
Tuff 03:00 Tools
E.W. - Beautiful People 08:38 Tools
Good Country Music 02:58 Tools
Lone Chief Intro 03:21 Tools
The Summer Knows 06:43 Tools
Come on Over 03:35 Tools
Rowdy Reputation 03:00 Tools
Red Bird 03:30 Tools
Samba Blues 06:30 Tools
I Remember Sonny Stitt 04:06 Tools
Dear Heroes 11:20 Tools
Gabriel 07:27 Tools
Carolina Blue 03:35 Tools
Romance in the South 03:25 Tools
Livin' the Dream 03:35 Tools
Real Woman 01:30 Tools
Night Song 08:45 Tools
Giant's Steps 07:08 Tools
Stop Gap 06:03 Tools
Loneliness - 2007 Digital Remaster 02:58 Tools
Back Road Buzz 06:42 Tools
'Til I'm Gone 06:42 Tools
Pete and John 07:27 Tools
Miss Janie 03:35 Tools
Janie Huk 11:20 Tools
Dirt Road 06:17 Tools
Something Bout Being Free 06:17 Tools
Country to the Bone 03:54 Tools
Alternative 08:58 Tools
Little Miss No Nose - Remastered 08:58 Tools
Theme for Ernie 10:01 Tools
Campfire 03:41 Tools
Casa Del Marcel 06:33 Tools
Good Enough for Me 03:41 Tools
Hip Shakin' - 2007 Digital Remaster 07:27 Tools
Apron Strings 03:55 Tools
Some of Us Still Do 04:42 Tools
Where The Road Gets Rough 04:42 Tools
Whiskey On the House 04:32 Tools
Baby Ann 06:05 Tools
While The City Sleeps 04:26 Tools
Gulf Coast Cowboy 03:48 Tools
Excursion 05:14 Tools
Little Miss No Nose (2007 Digital Remaster) 06:57 Tools
Blues Ain't Nothing But a Trip 12:42 Tools
Leo Rising 08:04 Tools
Louisiana 09:21 Tools
Disapproachment 05:47 Tools
Show The Good Side - Instrumental 05:54 Tools
Chiquito Loco - Instrumental 08:54 Tools
Cidade Alto 03:29 Tools
Thingaroo 03:37 Tools
Show The Good Side 05:57 Tools
Gray Thursday 07:16 Tools
When April Comes Again 05:28 Tools
Loneliness (2007 Digital Remaster) 02:57 Tools
Takin' You 00:30 Tools
You Gotta Be Kiddin' (2007 Digital Remaster) 03:29 Tools
Joyspring 08:15 Tools
Derricksterity 06:31 Tools
Joy Sping 08:13 Tools
Jitterbug Waltz 09:24 Tools
You Gotta Be Kiddin' - 2007 Digital Remaster 03:30 Tools
You're Only As Old As You Look 08:06 Tools
Something 'Bout Being Free 05:25 Tools
In the Wind 05:25 Tools
While The City Sleeps - Instrumental 04:23 Tools
#3 Sticker 04:23 Tools
E.W.-beautiful People 08:53 Tools
Nevada Mood 03:19 Tools
Seventh Avenue Bill (2007 Digital Remaster) 11:47 Tools
This Evenin' 11:47 Tools
Harlem rumble 03:25 Tools
La Route Aux Quatre Chansons 11:16 Tools
Skankaroony - Instrumental 07:55 Tools
Last Night When We Were Young 11:16 Tools
While the City Sleep 04:26 Tools
Playin' for Drinks 04:26 Tools
A L'Ombre Du Coeur De Ma Mie 03:25 Tools
Cecilia Is Love 06:28 Tools
Manhattan Fever - 2007 Digital Remaster 10:34 Tools
Giant Steps 07:06 Tools
Hip Shakin' (2007 Digital Remaster) 07:25 Tools
I'll Take Romance 05:25 Tools
Culf Coast Cowboy 03:51 Tools
The House That Love Built (2007 Digital Remaster) 04:23 Tools
Slug's Bag (2007 Digital Remaster) 07:05 Tools
Homebody Ramblin' Man Blues 07:05 Tools
Age 07:05 Tools
The Things We Did Last Summer 04:02 Tools
Straight, No Chaser 00:00 Tools
Basic-Ally Yours 04:23 Tools
Sweet Mirage 09:21 Tools
Beer Drinkin' Buddies 09:21 Tools
Two Franks 06:42 Tools
Ew Beautiful People 09:21 Tools
What's New From The Monster Mill (2007 Digital Remaster) 09:22 Tools
Serenata 04:52 Tools
Vested Interest 08:31 Tools
While The City Sleeps (Instrumental) 04:23 Tools
Georgia on My Mind (quartet) 06:38 Tools
Three Card molly 00:00 Tools
Jp's Thing 11:31 Tools
My Heart Stood Still 06:08 Tools
Fosterity (Quintet) 06:14 Tools
Seventh Avenue Bill - 2007 Digital Remaster 11:51 Tools
Loop-D-Loop 06:53 Tools
Stammpede - 2007 Digital Remaster 05:47 Tools
Night Song - Instrumental 08:45 Tools
Chiquito Loco (Instrumental) 08:53 Tools
Talkin' you 07:56 Tools
Stammpede (2007 Digital Remaster) 05:45 Tools
The House That Love Built - 2007 Digital Remaster 03:30 Tools
Why Try To Change Me Now 04:14 Tools
Counter Block 10:34 Tools
Zarou (Quintet) 05:13 Tools
Winners 10:34 Tools
Yaho (Quintet) 07:40 Tools
Skankaroony (Instrumental) 07:56 Tools
Kelly Blue 09:28 Tools
Dacor 00:00 Tools
Just 40 Bars 04:35 Tools
Ode To Joe Newman 10:34 Tools
Lady In Lace 05:45 Tools
A Fresh Taste Of The Blues 05:45 Tools
Shutout (Quintet) 05:48 Tools
Victorious Blues 06:37 Tools
Magic 00:00 Tools
Escale a Victoria 04:44 Tools
Mean What You Say 04:44 Tools
May We 09:28 Tools
Fly By Night - 2007 Digital Remaster 06:42 Tools
Li'l Darlin' 05:39 Tools
Slug's Bag - 2007 Digital Remaster 07:08 Tools
Just Squeeze Me 07:04 Tools
There'll Be A Time 07:40 Tools
Show The Good Side (Instrumental) 05:54 Tools
Love Handles 05:00 Tools
Tomorrow's Blues Today 05:00 Tools
Little Miss No Nose (2007 Remaster) 03:36 Tools
What's New From The Monster Mill - 2007 Digital Remaster 09:25 Tools
Why Try To Change Me Now? 05:54 Tools
Now That She's Away 04:35 Tools
Night Song (Instrumental) 08:46 Tools
Gracias (1998 Digital Remaster) 08:46 Tools
Out Of Nowhere (1998 Digital Remaster) 03:36 Tools
Shiny Stockings (Depaul University Jazz Ensemble feat. conductor: Robert Lark) 03:36 Tools
Little Miss No Rose 06:27 Tools
Oncle Archibald 06:42 Tools
J.P.'s thing 3 03:36 Tools
Simone - Live 03:29 Tools
Wail, Frank wail (Quartet) 06:25 Tools
Ew-Beautiful People 05:47 Tools
Little Red (1998 Digital Remaster) 05:47 Tools
Fly By Night (2007 Digital Remaster) 06:40 Tools
Well Water 05:47 Tools
You Gotta Be Kiddin 03:29 Tools
Little Red - 1998 Digital Remaster 06:42 Tools
The Loud Minority 1 03:29 Tools
Samba Blue 03:29 Tools
Shiny Stockings - Live 06:27 Tools
I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do 00:00 Tools
The Biddle-De-Bop Samba 06:25 Tools
Shunga 06:27 Tools
Mo-Lasses 06:27 Tools
Been Here And Gone 00:00 Tools
Four, Five, Six 06:25 Tools
Send In The Clowns 00:00 Tools
E.W.-beautiful People 4 06:25 Tools
Dunbar's Delight 10:39 Tools
A.M. Romp 06:52 Tools
Two For The Blues 00:00 Tools
requiem forr dusty 06:27 Tools
M.C. 00:00 Tools
Requiem for dusty 2 06:27 Tools
John R and Garfield 00:30 Tools
Blues For Benny (1998 Digital Remaster) 10:39 Tools
Lightly Stroking 09:28 Tools
Whiskey On The House 00:00 Tools
Nancy With The Laughing Face 00:00 Tools
How I Spent The Night (alt. take) 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps - Live 00:00 Tools
Blues For Benny - 1998 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Theme for Ernie - Live 00:00 Tools
A Blues Ain't Nothing but a Trip - Live 00:00 Tools
Joy Spring - Live 00:00 Tools
Chiquito Loco - Live 00:00 Tools
Requiem for a Dusty 1972 00:00 Tools
Blues Backstage 00:00 Tools
A Time For Love 09:28 Tools
The Heat's On (1998 Digital Remaster) 06:42 Tools
Someone's Rockin My Jazz Boat 06:42 Tools
How I Spent The Night - 1998 Digital Remaster 06:42 Tools
Lover 06:42 Tools
Jester Blues 06:42 Tools
Square Knights Of The Round Table 06:42 Tools
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most 06:42 Tools
Who Me? 09:28 Tools
I'll Take a Romance 09:28 Tools
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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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