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Released
  
1958

Release date
  
1958

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Quincy Jones

Label
  
Warner Music Sweden

Recorded
  
February 14, March 19 and April 29, 1958Stockholm, Sweden

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Quincy's Home Again is an album led by arranger and composer Quincy Jones featuring performances by Harry Arnold's Orchestra recorded in Sweden in 1958 and originally released on the Swedish Metronome label. The album was also released in the US as Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! on EmArcy Records.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars calling it "An excellent effort featuring a hard-swinging Swedish band that deserved to be better known in the U.S".

Track listing

All compositions by Harry Arnold except as indicated

  1. "Quincy's Home Again" - 2:28
  2. "The Midnight Sun Never Sets" (Jones, Dorcas Cochran, Henri Salvador) - 4:07
  3. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 3:14
  4. "Count 'Em" (Jones, Jimmy Cleveland) - 5:30
  5. "Brief Encounter" - 3:04
  6. "Room 608" (Horace Silver) - 3:14
  7. "Kinda Blues" - 6:00
  8. "Meet Benny Bailey" (Jones) - 3:50
  9. "Doodlin'" (Silver) - 5:13

Personnel

  • Quincy Jones - arranger
  • Harry Arnold - director
  • Benny Bailey, Sixten Eriksson, Arnold Johansson, Weine Renliden, Bengt-Arne Wallin - trumpet
  • Gordon Ohlsson, Åke Persson, Andreas Skjold, Georg Vernon - trombone
  • Rolf Backman, Arne Domnérus - alto saxophone
  • Bjarne Nerem, Carl-Henrik Norin - tenor saxophone
  • Rolf Blomquist - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Johnny Ekh, Rune Falk - baritone saxophone
  • Bengt Hallberg - piano
  • Rolf Berg - guitar
  • Simon Brehm, Lars Pettersson - bass
  • Egil Johansen - drums

    • Songs

    1Quincy's Home Again2:31
    2The Midnight Sun Never Sets4:05
    3Count 'em5:32

    References

    Quincy's Home Again Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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