Released February 1962 Length 30:58 Producer Bob Thiele | Genre Jazz Label Impulse!
A-11 | |
Recorded November 29,
December 18 and 22, 1961
Capitol Studios, New York City | ||
The Quintessence is an album recorded by Quincy Jones and his orchestra. It was released in 1962 and was his only recording for the Impulse! Records label. It has been called "the sound of the modern, progressive big band at its pinnacle."
Contents
The band heard here was an outgrowth of the orchestra used in the Free and Easy Broadway show and featured some of the same personnel that Jones assembled in New York for the show's initial European dates.
Contributors
The core band consists of Phil Woods, Melba Liston, Julius Watkins, and bassist Milt Hinton and pianist Patricia Bown on two sessions, with bassist Buddy Catlett and pianist Bobby Scott on another. The trumpet chairs are held alternately by players like Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, and Snooky Young. Oliver Nelson, Frank Wess and Curtis Fuller also contributed.
Track listing
- The Quintessence (Quincy Jones) - 4:21
- Robot Portrait (Billy Byers) - 5:25
- Little Karen (Benny Golson) - 3:44
- Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) - 2:26
- For Lena and Lennie (Jones) - 4:17
- Hard Sock Dance (Jones) - 3:20
- Invitation (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) - 3:35
- The Twitch (Byers) - 3:50
Tracks 5, 8 recorded on November 29, 1961; #2-3, 6 on December 18; 1, 4, 7 on December 22, 1961.
Personnel
Tracks 1, 4, 7
Tracks 2, 3, 6
Tracks 5, 8