Friday, March 14, 2008
Quincy Turns 75
See this space soon for my story about meeting Quincy Jones at EMP on his book tour a few years back as well as some other thoughts about another one of the twentieth century's most important creatives.
Meanwhile, let's celebrate his birthday with this very cool track (a full buffet first...I think okay because it is way out of print) of a Q arrangement of Antonio Carlos Jobim's Children's Games from the soundtrack of Harold Robbins' The Adventurers. It begins with one of those big fat Quincy Ironside riffs, has some swinging latin percussion, features Q's trademark use of contrasting instruments (check out the sections where the winds and trombones playing back and forth to each other) and is very much a product of the late sixties with electric piano. This is Ray Brown's big band playing. Could that be Ray on electric bass? Maybe. It was 1969 or 70 and the world was full of people breaking out and making exceptions. You might have to listen to this two or three times to pick up on all that's going on here.
Children's Game
posted by well-executed buffet at 5:15 AM
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