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The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Quincy Jones

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (1959)
  
I Dig Dancers (1960)

Release date
  
1959

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
November 4 & 9, 1959 Fine Recording, NYC

Similar
  
Quincy Jones albums, Jazz albums

The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones is an album led by composer, conductor and arranger Quincy Jones released on the Mercury label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow called it "a top-notch bop-oriented big band".

Track listing

  1. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) - 3:33
  2. "Ghana" (Ernie Wilkins) - 4:36
  3. "Caravan" (Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 3:28
  4. "Everybody's Blues" (Wilkins) - 4:13
  5. "Cherokee (Indian Love Song)" (Ray Noble) - 3:05
  6. "Air Mail Special" (Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Jimmy Mundy) - 2:33
  7. "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
  8. "Chant of the Weed" (Don Redman) - 3:14
  9. "I Never Has Seen Snow" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 3:08
  10. "Eesom" (Bill Potts) - 5:04

Personnel

  • Quincy Jones - conductor
  • Art Farmer, Lennie Johnson, Jimmy Maxwell, Lee Morgan, Ernie Royal, Nick Travis - trumpet
  • Billy Byers, Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Frank Rehak - trombone
  • Julius Watkins - French horn
  • Porter Kilbert, Phil Woods - alto saxophone
  • Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone
  • Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
  • Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone
  • Patti Bown - piano
  • Les Spann - guitar, flute
  • Buddy Jones, Buddy Catlett - bass
  • Don Lamond - drums
  • Ralph Burns (track 8), Al Cohn (tracks 6 & 7), Bill Potts (tracks 3, 9 & 10), Ernie Wilkins (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5) - arranger

    • Songs

    1Air Mail Special3:53
    2Banja Luka9:19
    3Bess You Is My Woman Now5:45

    References

    The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones Wikipedia
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