Jazz Articles about Quincy Jones

September Songs - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 30, 2022

September offers an opportunity to refocus on our inner energies and start a new cycle with renewed awareness and intentions--basically back to school and beyond... This segment of the show features more songs inspired by this month, with a special focus on five masterpieces that were recorded during a magical couple of weeks in September 1962. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Johnnie Taylor “It's September" Super ...

Umbria Jazz 2018: Part 1-2

by Roberto Cifarelli
July 31, 2018

Quincy Jones And His Orchestra: Live In Ludwigshafen 1961

by Dan Bilawsky
June 21, 2016

Artistic dreams and financial realities are rarely in alignment. That's a sad fact that the great Quincy Jones learned the hard way at the dawn of the '60s. Jones was in Europe at the time, directing a dream orchestra that he put together for the musical Free And Easy. When that show closed in February of 1960, he decided to keep things going. The big band tours that followed--in 1960 and 1961--were, by all accounts, successful in an artistic sense; ...

Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend

by Solomon J. LeFlore
October 31, 2014

I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, it is as American as apple pie. Ask 100 different people “What is jazz?“ and you're likely to get 100 different answers. Its styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz. Jazz is America's classical music. It ...

Quincy Jones And His Orchestra: The Quintessence

by Martin Gladu
March 10, 2008

As the who's who of the entertainment and humanitarian aid worlds prepares to fete Quincy Jones on his 75th birthday (he was born March 14, 1933), Universal's Impulse! Records also takes part in the celebration with the reissue of The Quintessence.Recorded in late 1961 as an offshoot of the Free and Easy Broadway show, the band features roughly the same big band personnel Jones had assembled in New York for the show's initial European dates. Following the show's ...

Quincy Jones And Bill Cosby: The Original Jam Sessions 1969

by Mark Sabbatini
July 14, 2004

The phrase “your opinion of this album may depend on what you think of TV theme music" is generally not meant as praise.

But this “long-lost" collection of funk-jazz written by Jones and Cosby bears no resemblance to the syrupy soundtracks of modern shows like “The West Wing" and “Law And Order." Instead it offers up a collaboration of various big-name jazz players in a casual and free-spirited, if uneven, set of studio jams. Most of the time ...

The Quincy Jones Big Band: Lausanne 1960

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1999

Quincy Jones made a number of recordings while traveling through western Europe with his big band nearly 40 years ago. This is the best one we’ve heard. Although sound quality is typical of an early–’60s radio broadcast, which this was, Quincy’s all–star ensemble is kicking butt and taking no prisoners in Lausanne, Switzerland. As no less an authority than alto master Phil Woods (who was there) says in a hand–written note affixed to the liners, “This CD comes closer to ...