In the hands of Los Charly’s Orchestra, the ever-slick Venezuelan duo of Juan Laya and Jorge Montiel cover the timeless jazz standard ‘Fever’. A full-blown reincarnation, released via their own label, Imagenes Recordings. This new reinterpretation brings the heat in all the right ways: sultry, percussive, and deeply rooted in Latin soul. Nolita Golding’s cool vocal performance oozes old-school sophistication. She breathes a modern, London-Latin fire into the classic. Her laid-back phrasing glides above a lush bed of live instrumentation. Laya and Montiel’s production shines through: tight conga rolls, wah-wah guitars, slinky Rhodes chords, and Latin piano flourishes. But it’s the instrumental that truly shines – a living, breathing groove that lets the rhythm section tell its own story, simmering with warmth and precision. From the first guitar lick and Latin piano phrase, this feels like a late-night jam recorded in a candlelit club somewhere between the Jazz Café and the Blue Marlin, with an infectious groove that’s been part of the Latin-fusion circuit since the mid-2000s. They have mastered this hybrid language. You can hear echoes of their previous Imagenes highlights “When The Sun Goes Down”, “Universal Love”, and their Electropical series – yet ‘Fever’ stands apart for its stripped-back elegance and cinematic warmth. With support already pouring in from Gilles Peterson, Pete Tong, and Louie Vega, this release cements Los Charly’s Orchestra’s reputation as master craftsmen of soulful, sun-drenched groove.