On October 17, 1957, ”ABC” label released “Go West, Man!”, the second Quincy Jones studio album. It was recorded in February 1957, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Quincy Jones.
Personnel:
Quincy Jones – conductor
Benny Carter – alto saxophone
Herb Geller – alto saxophone
Charlie Mariano – alto saxophone
Art Pepper – alto saxophone
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Walter Benton – tenor saxophone
Buddy Collette – tenor saxophone
Bill Perkins – tenor saxophone
Conte Candoli – trumpet
Pete Candoli – trumpet
Harry Edison – trumpet
Jack Sheldon – trumpet
Lou Levy – piano
Carl Perkins – piano
Red Mitchell – bass
Leroy Vinnegar – bass
Shelly Manne – drums
Mel Lewis – drums
Track listing:
Dancin’ Pants – Jimmy Giuffre
Blues Day – Jimmy Giuffre
Bright Moon – Jimmy Giuffre
No Bones at All – Johnny Mandel
The Oom Is Blues – Charlie Mariano
Be My Guest – Lennie Niehaus
Medley: What’s New? – Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke / We’ll Be Together Again – Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine / Time on My Hands – Vincent Youmans / You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie / Laura – David Raksin / Johnny Mercer
In September 1971, “Blue Note” label released “Visions”, the 17th Grant Green album. It was recorded in March 1971, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by George Butler.
Personnel:
Grant Green – guitar
Billy Wooten – vibes
Emmanuel Riggins – electric piano
Chuck Rainey – electric bass
Idris Muhammad – drums
Harold Caldwell – drums, percussion
Ray Armando – conga
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Track listing:
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? – Robert Lamm
Maybe Tomorrow – Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Quincy Jones
Mozart Symphony #40 in G Minor, K550, 1st Movement – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love on a Two-Way Street – Bert Keyes, Sylvia Robinson
Cantaloupe Woman – Ben Dixon
We’ve Only Just Begun – Roger Nichols, Paul Williams
In September 1957, “EmArcy” label released “The Swingin’ Miss D”, the sixth Dinah Washington studio album. It was recorded in December 1956, and was produced by Bob Shad.
Personnel:
Dinah Washington – vocals
Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
Quincy Jones – conductor, arrangements
Ernie Wilkins – arrangements
Benny Golson – arrangements
Anthony Ortega – alto saxophone, clarinet
Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Lucky Thompson – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Don Elliott – trumpet, mellophonium, vibraphone, bongos; xylophone
Jimmy Maxwell – trumpet
Doc Severinsen – trumpet
Charlie Shavers – trumpet
Clark Terry – trumpet
Bernie Glow – trumpet
Nick Travis – trumpet
Ernie Royal – trumpet
Joe Wilder – trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
Urbie Green – trombone
Quentin Jackson – trombone
Tommy Mitchell – bass trombone
Hal McKusick – flute, alto saxophone
Danny Bank – bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Clarence “Sleepy” Anderson – piano, celeste
Barry Galbraith – guitar
Milt Hinton – double bass
Osie Johnson – drums
Jimmy Crawford – drums
Murray Garrett, Gene Howard – photography
John S. Wilson – liner notes
Track listing:
They Didn’t Believe Me – Jerome Kern, Herbert Reynolds
You’re Crying – Leonard Feather, Quincy Jones
Makin’ Whoopee – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Cole Porter
But Not for Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Caravan – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol
Perdido – Ervin Drake, H. J. Lengsfelder, Tizol
Never Let Me Go – Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby? – Billy Austin, Louis Jordan
I’ll Close My Eyes – Buddy Kaye, Billy Reid
Somebody Loves Me – Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald
On July 27, 1983, “Qwest Records” and “Warner Bros” labels released “It’s Your Night”, the debut James Ingram album. It was recorded 1982 – 1983, at “Westlake” and “Ocean Way” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Quincy Jones. In 1985, the album track “Yah Mo B There” won “Grammy Award” for “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group”.
Personnel:
James Ingram – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, synth bass, arrangements
Quincy Jones – African voices, electric piano, arrangements
Michael McDonald – lead and backing vocals, synthesizers, arrangements
In July 1968, “Cadet” label released “Maiden Voyage”, the 29th Ramsey Lewis album. It was recorded in April 1968, at “Universal Recording Studio” in Chicago, and was produced by Richard Evans.
Personnel:
Ramsey Lewis – piano
Cleveland Eaton – bass, arrangements
Maurice White – drums
Charles Stepney – arrangements
Doug Brand – engineer
Jerry Griffith – design
Ryell Ho – photography
Richard Evans – supervision
Track listing:
Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock
Mighty Quinn – Bob Dylan
Sweet Rain – Mike Gibbs
Lady Madonna – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Do You Know the Way to San Jose – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Ode – Charles Stepney
Les Fleur – Charles Stepney
Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
In The Heat of the Night – Quincy Jones
Afro-Boogaloo Twist – Cleveland Eaton
Only When I’m Dreaming – Charles Stepney, Alex Dino
In July 1963, “Impulse!” label released “Today and Now”, the 37th Coleman Hawkins album. It was recorded in September 1962, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, and was produced by Bob Thiele.
Personnel:
Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Major Holley – bass
Eddie Locke – drums
Rudy van Gelder – recording
Track listing:
Go Li’l Liza – traditional
Quintessence – Quincy Jones
Don’t Love Me – Bill Katz, Pauline Rivelli, Ruth Roberts
Love Song from “Apache” – Johnny Mercer, David Raksin
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnett – Stanley Murphy, Percy Wenrich
Swingin’ Scotch – Coleman Hawkins
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) – Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias
In June 1968, “Brunswick” label released “Manufacturers of Soul”, album by Jackie Wilson and Count Basie (the 18th Jackie Wilson album overall). It was recorded in January 1968, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Nat Tarnopol and Teddy Reig.
Personnel:
Jackie Wilson – vocals
Count Basie – piano
Bobby Plater, Marshal Royal – alto saxophone
Eric Dixon, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
Al Aarons, Oscar Brashear, Gene Coe, Sonny Cohn – trumpet
Richard Boone, Steve Galloway, Grover Mitchell – trombone
Bill Hughes – bass trombone
Freddie Green – guitar
Uncredited – bass
Harold Jones – drums
Benny Carter – arrangements
Decca Photo Studio – photography
Hal Buksbaum – photography
Teddy Reig – liner notes
Track listing.
Funky Broadway – Lester Christian
For Your Precious Love – Arthur Brooks, Richard Brooks, Jerry Butler
In the Midnight Hour – Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett
Ode to Billy Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Chain Gang – Sam Cooke
I Was Made to Love Her – Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy
Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy
I Never Loved a Woman (The Way I Love You) – Ronnie Shannon
Respect – Otis Redding
Even When You Cry – Quincy Jones, Alan and Marilyn Bergman
In March 1963, “Philips” label released “New Wave!”, the 37th Dizzy Gillespie album. It was recorded May – July 1962, in New York City and Juan-les-Pins, France, and was produced by Quincy Jones.
Personnel:
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, arrangements
Leo Wright – alto saxophone, flute
Charlie Ventura – tenor and bass saxophone
Lalo Schifrin – piano, arrangements
Bola Sete – guitar
Elek Bacsik – guitar
Jose Paula – vocal, guitar, tamboura, percussion
Chris White – bass
Rudy Collins – drums
Carmen Costa – vocal, maracas, cabasa, güiro
Pepito Riestra – percussion
Fred Schnell – photography
Track listing:
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town – Joe Young, John Siras, Little Jack Little
Careless Love – Dizzy Gillespie
Chega de Saudade – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius De Moraes
Taboo – Sidney Keith Russell
One Note Samba – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça
Manhã de Carnaval – Antonio Naria, Luiz Bonfa
Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You – Andy Razaf, Don Redman
In March 1959, “Mercury” label released “Vaughan and Violins”, the eleventh Sarah Vaughan album. It was recorded in July 1958, and was produced by Jack Tracy.
Personnel:
Sarah Vaughan – vocals
Marcel Hrasko – alto saxophone
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Jo Hrasko – baritone saxophone
William Boucya – baritone saxophone
Pierre Culaz – guitar
Ronnell Bright – piano
Richard Davis – bass
Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Michel Hausser – vibraphone
Quincy Jones – arrangements, conductor
Track listing:
Please Be Kind – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
The Midnight Sun Will Never Set – Dorcas Cochran, Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador
Live for Love – Paul Misraki, Carl Sigman
Misty – Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner
I’m Lost – Otis René
Love Me – John Lehmann, John Lewis
That’s All – Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes
Day by Day – Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston
Gone with the Wind – Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel
In February 1962, “Impulse!” label released “The Quintessence”, album by Quincy Jones and his Orchestra album (the eleventh Quincy Jones album overall). It was recorded November – December 1961, at “Capitol Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Bob Thiele.
Personnel:
Phil Woods, Oliver Nelson, Eric Dixon, Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson – saxophone
Ernie Royal, Snooky Young, Freddie Hubbard, Al Derisi, Snooky Young, Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Jerome Kail, Clyde Reasinger, Clark Terry – trumpet
Billy Byers, Curtis Fuller, Thomas Mitchell, Melba Liston, Billy Byers, Paul Faulise, Rodney Levitt – trombone
Julius Watkins, James Buffington, Earl Chapin, Ray Alonge – French horn
Harvey Phillips – tuba
Gloria Agostini – harp
Patricia Bown – piano
Bobby Scott – piano
George Catlett – bass
Milt Hinton – bass
James Johnson – drums
Bill English – drums
Stu Martin – drums
Frank Abbey – engineer
Bob Arnold – engineer
Robert Flynn – design
Pete Turner – cover photography
Jack Bradley – liner photography
Lena Horn – liner notes
Lennie Hayton – liner notes
Track listing:
The Quintessence – Quincy Jones
Robot Portrait – Billy Byers
Little Karen – Benny Golson
Straight, No Chaser – Thelonious Monk
For Lena and Lennie – Quincy Jones
Hard Sock Dance – Quincy Jones
Invitation – Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster
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