Quincy Jones Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2-CD)

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Quincy Jones: Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2-CD)

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Interpret: Quincy Jones
Album titlle: Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2-CD)
Label JASMINE
Preiscode JAS
Genre Jazz
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0604988069624
weight in Kg 0.12

Jones, Quincy - Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2-CD) CD 1
01	The Birth Of A Band	Quincy Jones
02	Moanin'	Quincy Jones
03	I Remeber Clifford	Quincy Jones
04	Along Came Betty	Quincy Jones
05	Tickletoe	Quincy Jones
06	Happy Faces	Quincy Jones
07	Whisper Not	Quincy Jones
08	The Gypsy	Quincy Jones
09	A Change Of Pace	Quincy Jones
10	Tuxedo Junction	Quincy Jones
11	Lester Leaps In	Quincy Jones
12	Ghana	Quincy Jones
13	Caravan	Quincy Jones
14	Everybody's Blues	Quincy Jones
15	Cherokee (Indian Love Song)	Quincy Jones
16	Air Mail Special	Quincy Jones
17	They Say It's Wonderful	Quincy Jones
18	Chant Of The Weed	Quincy Jones
19	I Never Has Seen Snow	Quincy Jones
20	Eesom	Quincy Jones

Jones, Quincy - Strike Up The Band 1959-1961 (2-CD) CD 2
01	Pleasingly Plump	Quincy Jones
02	G'wan Train	Quincy Jones
03	Moonglow	Quincy Jones
04	Tone Poem	Quincy Jones
05	You Turned The Tables On Me	Quincy Jones
06	Chinese Checkers	Quincy Jones
07	Love Is Here To Stay	Quincy Jones
08	The Midnight Sun Will Never Set	Quincy Jones
09	Trouble On My Mind	Quincy Jones
10	A Sunday Kind Of Love	Quincy Jones
11	Hot Sake (Japan)	Quincy Jones
12	Strike Up The Band (U.S.A)	Quincy Jones
13	Africana (Africa)	Quincy Jones
14	Meadowlands (Russia)	Quincy Jones
15	Rico Vacilon (Cuba)	Quincy Jones
16	Under Paris Skies (France)	Quincy Jones
17	Mack The Knife (Germany)	Quincy Jones
18	Manolete De Espana (Spain)	Quincy Jones
19	Baia (Brazil)	Quincy Jones
20	Come Back To Sorrento (Italy)	Quincy Jones
21	Swedish Warmland (Sweden)	Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones Quincy Jones is a composer, artist, arranger, conductor, multi-instrumentalist,... more

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"Quincy Jones"

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones is a composer, artist, arranger, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, record company executive, magazine founder, and record, film, and TV producer. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled Pop, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Classical, African, and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions in every medium, including records, live performances, movies, and TV.

Jones’ creative magic has spanned over seven decades, beginning with the music of the post-swing era, and continues to influence today’s high-technology.

Quincy Jones was born on March 14, 1933, on the Southside of Chicago and raised in Seattle. He began playing the trumpet under the tutor Clark Terry, and continued his musical studies at the prestigious Schillinger House (now known as Berklee College of Music) in Boston. He remained there until the he received the chance to tour with Lionel Hampton’s band as a trumpeter, arranger, and pianist at only 20 years old. By the mid-1950s, he was arranging and recording for musical greats such as Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley, and LaVern Baker.

In 1957, Jones furthered his musical education under the discipline of Nadia Boulanger, the legendary Parisian tutor who also instructed American expatriate composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copeland. To subsidize his studies, he took a job with Barclay Disques, Mercury’s French distributor, and recorded many European artists, namely Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, and Henri Salvador, as well as American artists, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, and Andy Williams.

In 1961, Jones became the Vice President of Mercury Records and was the first high-level black executive of an established major record company. Toward the end of his association with the label, Quincy turned his attention to another sector of the industry that had been closed to blacks—the world of film scores. As the first black composer to be embraced by the Hollywood establishment in the 1960s, he helped refresh film scores with infusions of Jazz and Soul. He scored the music for Sidney Lumet’s,'The Pawnbroker' in 1963, which would turn out to be the first of his nearly 40 major motion picture scores. Furthermore, Jones was the first popular conductor-arranger to record with a Fender bass, and his theme from the hit TV series 'Ironside,' was the first synthesizer-based Pop theme song.

In 1985, Jones co-produced Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s 'The Color Purple,' which garnered eleven Oscar nominations and marked his debut as a film producer. He is also credited with introducing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to film audiences through this major motion picture.

Many more landmarks and legendary productions came out of his creativity through the decades up till today and Quincy Jones is still active. A legend!