 Исполнитель: Quincy JonesНазвание альбома: I Dig Dancers Год выпуска: 1960 Формат файлов: Mp3 256kbps cbr Размер архива: 60Mb rar Скачать с: Rusfolder
I Dig Dancers! is almost too good to believe. Simply consider the line-up, featuring Benny Bailey and Clark Terry on trumpets, Jimmy Cleveland, Åke Persson, Melba Liston, Quentin Jackson on trombones, Phil Woods, Jerome Richardson, Budd Johnson and Sahib Shihab on saxes, Patti Bown on piano and Les Spann on guitar and flute. It amounts to a jazz lover’s dream orchestra, assembled to accompany the European tour of Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s Free and Easy. The Paris premiere of the show took place at the Alhambra on January 15, 1960, and was scheduled to play for a month. But for various reasons it didn’t last that long.
When everybody else packed to go home, Quincy Jones felt he had assembled too top-notch an orchestra to dismantle. With the talent he pulled together, he felt sure he could get bookings throughout Europe, which, for the next ten months or so, he actually did. This orchestra played often throughout Europe and even waxed several recordings, including one with Andy Williams and this one (a number of live recordings were captured at the time and later issued many years after the fact).
With a Quincy Jones record, you often tend to focus on the songs or the remarkable players. But too little is made of Q’s way with a chart. I Dig Dancers! Is a treasure trove of sassy, pristine and wonderfully witty arrangements, presented with a never-too-much but never-too-little mix of story-telling flourishes and seasonings written specifically to let orchestra members highlight in their own inimitable way.
Q’s sound genius is prominent throughout I Dig Dancers! and is most notable on “Pleasingly Plump,” “Tone Poem,” “Chinese Checkers,” “Trouble on My Mind” and Benny Powell’s “Parisian Thoroughfare,” resulting in an album that is superbly transcendent and timelessly magical.
by Doug Payne
Label - Mercury
Personnel
Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor
Melba Liston, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Wayne Andre, Quentin Jackson, Åke Persson - trombone
Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Roger Guerin, Lennie Johnson, Jerry Kail, Clyde Reasinger, Floyd Standifer - trumpet
Julius Watkins - french horn
Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Jerome Richardson, Oliver Nelson, Budd Johnson, Porter Kilbert, Joe Lopes - saxophone
Les Spann - flute, guitar
Patti Bown - piano
Buddy Catlett - bass
Stu Martin, Joe Harris - drums
Tracks
01. Pleasingly Plump (Jones) 2.18
02. G'wan Train (Brown) 6.22
03. Moonglow (DeLange/Hudson) 2.49
04. Tone Poem (Jones) 3.42
05. You Turned The Tables On Me (Alter) 2.32
06. Chinese Checkers (Byers) 2.43
07. Our Love Is Here To Stay (Gershwin) 3.13
08. The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (Cochran/Jones/Salvador) 4.35
09. Trouble On My Mind (Noble) 2.33
10. A Sunday Kind Of Love (Belle/Leonard/Prima/Rhodes) 2.35
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