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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

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Released
  
February 1957, CD: 1992

Recorded
  
September 14, 19 and 29, 1956 Beltone Recording Studios, New York February 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.)

Contents

Track listing

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

Additional tracks on 1992 CD release

  1. "Dancin' Pants" (Jimmy Giuffre) – 3:47
  2. "Be My Guest" (Lennie Niehaus) – 4:26
  3. "Kings Road Blues" (Niehaus) – 5:03
  4. "Bright Moon" (Giuffre) – 5:17
  5. "The Oom Is Blues" (Charlie Mariano) – 5:07
  6. "Ballad Medley" – 6:17
  1. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
  2. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine)
  3. "Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans)
  4. "You Go to My Head" (Haven Gillespie, Fred Coots)
  5. "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".)

Personnel

  • Quincy Jones - conductor, arranger (1–6)

    • Tracks 1-2, session from September 29, 1956

  • Art Farmer, Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder - trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Frank Rehak - trombone
  • Phil Woods - alto saxophone
  • Jerome Richardson - flute and tenor saxophone
  • Lucky Thompson, Bunny Bardach - tenor saxophone
  • Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Paul Chambers - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums

    • Tracks 3-4, session from September 14, 1956

  • Art Farmer - trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
  • Herbie Mann - flute
  • Gene Quill - alto saxophone
  • Zoot Sims (#3), Lucky Thompson (#4) - tenor saxophone
  • Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
  • Milt Jackson - vibes
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums

    • Tracks 5-6, session from September 19, 1956

  • Art Farmer - trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
  • Herbie Mann - flute
  • Phil Woods - alto saxophone
  • Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone
  • Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums

    • Added tracks 7–12, session from February 25, 1957

  • Bill Perkins, Buddy Collette and Walter Benton - tenor saxophone
  • Pepper Adams - baritone sax (10-12)
  • Carl Perkins - piano
  • Leroy Vinnegar - bass
  • Shelly Manne - drums
  • Arrangements by Jimmy Giuffre (7, 10), Lennie Niehaus (8, 9), Charlie Mariano (11)

    • Production

  • The original album tracks were recorded by Irv Greenbaum at Beltone Recording Studios, NYC.
  • Originally produced by Creed Taylor
  • Added tracks from the album Go West, Man! were originally recorded by John Kraus and produced by Quincy Jones.
  • Digital remastering by Erick Labson
  • Reissue post-production – Adam Zelinka, Joseph Doughney, Michael Landy
  • Reissue Producer – Michael Cuscuna
  • Executive Producers – Dave Grusin, Larry Rosen

    • Songs

    1Walkin'10:44
    2A Sleepin' Bee4:42
    3Sermonette5:58

    References

    This Is How I Feel About Jazz Wikipedia
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