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I Dig Dancers

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Released
  
1961

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
Mile End

Artist
  
Quincy Jones

Producer
  
Hal Mooney

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 27 & 29, April 21 and October 19, 1960 Barclay Studios in Paris, France and Bell Sound Studios in NYC

I Dig Dancers (1960)
  
Around the World (1961)

Similar
  
The Great Wide World of Quincy, The Birth of a Band!, Go West - Man!, Newport '61, Quincy's Got a Brand Ne

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I Dig Dancers is an album led by composer, conductor and arranger Quincy Jones released on the Mercury label featuring performances recorded in Paris and New York.

Contents

Quincy jones i dig dancers side 2


Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Pleasingly Plump" (Quincy Jones) - 2:15
  2. "G'wan Train" (Patti Bown) - 6:20
  3. "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) - 2:47
  4. "Tone Poem" (Melba Liston) - 3:40
  5. "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) - 2:30
  6. "Chinese Checkers" (David Carr Glover) - 2:41
  7. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10
  8. "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador, Dorcas Cochran) - 4:29
  9. "Trouble On My Mind" (Ray Noble) - 2:51
  10. "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes) - 2:32
  11. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 3:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Pleasingly Plump" [First Take] (Jones) - 2:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "G'wan Train" [Short Version] (Bown) - 3:00 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 2:07 Bonus track on CD reissue
  15. "Blues from Free and Easy" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:00 Bonus track on CD reissue

Collective Personnel

  • Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor
  • Benny Bailey, Freddie Hubbard, Lennie Johnson, Jerry Kail, Clyde Reasinger, Floyd Standifer, Clark Terry - trumpet
  • Wayne Andre, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Åke Persson - trombone
  • Julius Watkins - French horn
  • Joe Lopes, Porter Kilbert, Phil Woods - alto saxophone
  • Budd Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone
  • Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone
  • Patti Bown - piano
  • Les Spann - guitar, flute
  • Buddy Catlett - bass
  • Joe Harris, Stu Martin - drums

    • Songs

    1Pleasingly Plump2:17
    2G'wan Train6:21
    3Moonglow2:50

    References

    I Dig Dancers Wikipedia
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