This Is How I Feel About Jazz

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Length 36:32 Artist Quincy Jones Label ABC Records		This Is How I Feel About Jazz(1957) Go West, Man!(1957) Release date February 1957 Genre Jazz

Released February 1957, CD: 1992 Recorded September 14, 19 and 29, 1956Beltone Recording Studios, New YorkFebruary 25, 1957 Los Angeles Producers Creed Taylor, Quincy Jones Similar Go West - Man!, The Great Wide World of Quincy, The Birth of a Band!, I Dig Dancers, Smackwater Jack

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This Is How I Feel About Jazz is the 1957 debut album by jazz musician Quincy Jones. It presents Jones as arranger and conductor of three different recording sessions during September 1956, each with a different line-up, from a nonet to a 15-part big band, that featured musicians like Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson, and also – although recorded in New York – West Coast musicians like Art Pepper, Zoot Sims and Herbie Mann. The bonus tracks on the CD release confirm the influence of West Coast jazz with compositions by Jimmy Giuffre, Lennie Niehaus and Charlie Mariano. The album was originally produced by Creed Taylor and released on ABC-Paramount. The digital reissue on CD in 1992 was repackaged as an Impulse! Records release, ABCs sub-label for contemporary jazz established by Taylor four years after these sessions took place (The Impulse version has a similar cover to the original, shown here, but with the addition of the famous impulse! logo.)

Track listing

"Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 10:47
"Stockholm Sweetnin'" (Quincy Jones) – 5:41
"Evening in Paris" (Jones) – 4:09
"Sermonette" (Adderley, Hendricks) – 5:58
"A Sleepin' Bee" (Arlen, Capote) – 4:42
"Boo's Blues" (Jones) – 5:15

Additional tracks on 1992 CD release

"Dancin' Pants" (Jimmy Giuffre) – 3:47
"Be My Guest" (Lennie Niehaus) – 4:26
"Kings Road Blues" (Niehaus) – 5:03
"Bright Moon" (Giuffre) – 5:17
"The Oom Is Blues" (Charlie Mariano) – 5:07
"Ballad Medley" – 6:17

"What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine)
"Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans)
"You Go to My Head" (Haven Gillespie, Fred Coots)
"Laura" (David Raskin)

Recorded in New York on September 29 (1, 2), September 14 (3, 4) and September 19, 1956 (5, 6). Additional tracks 7–12 on the CD release were recorded in Los Angeles on February 25, 1957, and originally released on Go West, Man! (ABC 186, 1957). (Not included here were the tracks "Blues Day", "No Bones at All" and "London Derriere".)