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Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Born: Mar 14, 1933 in Chicago, IL
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Crossover Jazz, Soul Jazz, Straight Ahead, Traditional Jazz/Swing, Vocal Jazz, Classic Pop, R&B, Adult Contemporary, Urban, Alternative/Underground Hip-Hop, Pop Soul/Quiet Storm, Traditional Pop, Oldies, Pop, Soul and R&B, Vocal, Electronica, Ambient Breakbeat, Jazz-Electronica, Techno, Big Band, Bop
Biography: In a musical career that has spanned six decades, Quincy Jones has earned his reputation as a renaissance man of American music. Jones has distinguished himself as a bandleader, a solo artist, a sideman, a songwriter, a producer, an arranger, a film composer, and a record label executive, and outside ...Read full biography
This Is How I Feel About Jazz
Released: 1956
Label: Universal Japan
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The music on this CD is from a period when arranger Quincy Jones was a major part of the jazz world, rather than being content just to take bows for it. Six high-quality selections from a 1956 album offer ...Read full review
The Birth of a Band, Vol. 1
Released: 1959
Label: Mercury
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Although this particular big band changed its personnel quite a bit before touring Europe, Quincy Jones began 1959 with high hopes. On one of his finest jazz recordings, Jones' arrangements feature such ...Read full review
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