I heard that!! The musical world of Quincy Jones
Beskrivning:Quincy Jones är borta efter en karriär som i jämförelse med de flesta andras är helt outstanding. Både som arrangör och producent. Det här dubbelalbumet var till hälften nyinspelat och till hälften en slags greatest hits-compilation från hans tid på A&M-etiketten. Listan på välmeriterade musiker som medverkar är längre än en gorillas arm och allt finns redovisat på utvikningskonvolutet och medföljande blad. Vem kan t ex redovisa två munspelare som Toots Thielemans och Stevie Wonder i musikerlistan?
"This two-LP set was supposed to contain a monumental suite tracing the evolution of black music but since Jones needed more time to work on it (it has yet to emerge!), he put out this stopgap set. One LP contains new material, the other is a retrospective of his previous A&M albums. The first LP is dominated by the generic soul vocals of a Quincy Jones-sponsored creation known as the Wattsline, which is largely saddled with routine soul material after a brief, promisingly funky start ("I Heard That!!"). Of the instrumentals, "Midnight Soul Patrol" doesn't quite make it despite the presence of heavyweight funksters like George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham and Alphonso Johnson, but "Brown Soft Shoe" again has Toots Thielemans delivering some classy cameo harmonica. The "greatest hits" disc astutely pulls eight key tracks from all six of Q's earlier A&Ms (though "Gula Matari" and "Walking in Space" are heavily edited) -- and frankly, they blow his 1976 music away." (Richard S Ginell, allmusic.com)
16 spår; speltid 75:10.
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Skivbolag: A&M AMLM 63705 ()
Format: 2-LP
Skick: Vinyl Nära nyskick
Engelsk pressning.
Spår:
- I heard that!!
- Things could be worse for meWhat good is a song
- You have to do it yourself
- There´s a train leavin´
- Midnight soul patrol
- Brown soft shoe
- Superstition
- Summer in the city
- Is it love that we´re missin´
- Body heat
- If I ever lose this heaven
- Killer Joe
- Gula Matari
- Theme from"The Anderson tapes"
- Walking in space