Quincy Jones Big Band - Complete 1960 European Concerts

Cat. no: EJC55760
Format: CD4
Barcode: 8436559468831
Release Date: 18 Feb 2022
Genre: Jazz

All known live recordings by the fabulous Quincy Jones Big Band during its 1960 European tour, across 4CDs, includes a comprehensive 24-page booklet

By then, the orchestra included such stars as Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Quentin Jackson, Jimmy Cleveland, and Les Spann. Recorded with excellent sound quality, this is the first issue to include all these concert performances in a single collection.

"I like to look on the orchestra as my personal instrument, the same as the soloist looks on his, and I like to improvise with it. I like to describe my feelings, my moods and my thoughts so that writing becomes the same as improvising a solo for me." - Quincy Jones

Tracks: Birth Of A Band / Everybody’s Blues [aka The Phantom’s Blues] / Moanin’ / Tickle Toe / Stockholm Sweetnin’ / I Remember Clifford / Walkin’ / Birth Of A Band / Moanin’ / Lester Leaps In / The Gypsy / Tickle Toe / Everybody’s Blues [aka The Phantom’s Blues] / Big Red / Announcement By Olle Helander / Moanin’ / Tickle Toe / I Remember Clifford / Whisper Not / Everybody’s Blues [aka The Phantom’s Blues] / Birth Of A Band / The Gypsy / Ghana / Walkin’ / Big Red / Announcement/ Birth Of A Band / I Remember Clifford / Walkin’ / Parisian Thoroughfare / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set / Everybody’s Blues [aka The Phantom’s Blues] / Stockholm Sweetenin’ / My Reverie / Ghana / Big Red / Announcement/ Cherokee / Chinese Checkers / Birth Of A Band / I Remember Clifford / Ghana / Big Red / My Reverie / Parisian Thoroughfare / Moanin’ / Soul / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set / Everybody’s Blues [aka The Phantom’s Blues] / Airmail Special / Airmail Special [encore]

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