Quincy Jones

Deliberately presented as a dance music release, this brilliant Quincy Jones album - first released on Mercury label in 1961 - comprises material from two marvelous big band performances recorded the year before in Paris and New York.

Here the great composer and arranger leads a first class "dance organization", a top-flight big band featuring the cream of NY Jazz musicians, among them: Clark Terry and Freddie Hubbard - trumpets, Curtis Fuller and Melba Liston - trombones, Phil Woods, Oliver Nelson and Sahib Shihab - saxes, Stu Martin - drums. An exquisite platter of highly swinging and danceable grooves signed by the genius of Quincy Jones.

PERSONNEL:

• Trombones:
• Jimmie Cleveland
• Ake Persson
• Melba Liston
• Quentin Jackson

• Reeds:
• Porter Kilbert
• Phil Woods
• Jerome Richardson
• Budd Johnson
• Sahib Shihab

• Trumpets:
• Lennie Johnson
• Bennie Bailey
• Clark Terry
• Floyd Standifer

• Julius Watkins (french horn)
• Patti Bown (piano)
• George Catlett (bass)
• Les Spann (guitar, flute)
• Joe Harris (drums)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Pleasingly Plump
• A2. G'wan Train
• A3. Moonglow
• A4. Tone Poem
• A5. You Turned The Tables On Me

• SIDE B
• B1. Chinese Checkers
• B2. Love Is Here To Stay
• B3. The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
• B4. Trouble On My Mind
• B5. A Sunday Kind Of Love