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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is known to most people as the producer of some of the best-selling albums in the record-books, and particularly those by Michael Jackson. But Quincy’s talents as a producer were only able to bloom because he is an immense musician. For close to seventy years, the man has been writing, playing, producing and recording music.
Born in Chicago and raised in Seattle, Quincy befriended Ray Charles in the Forties and went to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. As a trumpeter in the Fifties, Quincy acquired immense experience as an arranger for a great number of orchestras and musicians. The five years (1957-1962) illustrated in this album represent the peak of Quincy’s art as an arranger and bandleader.
He toured the world and settled in Paris for a time, where he became Artistic Director for the label of Eddie Barclay. And then in the Sixties he returned to America to become Music Director of the U.S. label Mercury. He met Michael Jackson in 1978 on the set of The Wiz, which was produced by Motown. A year later, Quincy was the producer of Michael Jackson’s album Off the Wall, marking the beginning of a series of immense hits in every musical domain.
Tracklist
A1. The Birth Of A Band
A2. Moanin
A3. Along Came Betty
A4. Tickle Toe
A5. Happy Faces
A6. G Wan Train
A7. Tuxedo Junction
B1. The Boy In The Tree
B2. Kinda Blues
B3. For Lena And Lennie
B4. Caravan
B5. The Best Is Yet To Come
C1. Dancin' Pants
C2. Doodlin'
C3. Caravan
C4. Pleasingly Plump
C5. The Boy In The Tree (Theme)
C6. Boogie Stop Shuffle
D1. Soul Bossa Nova
D2. Desafinado
D3. Manha De Carnaval
D4. Samba De Uma Nota So
D5. Seranata
D6. Chega De Saudade