Quincy's Home Again

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Quincy's Home Again
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Studio album by
Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold and His Swedish Radio Jazz Orchestra
Released1958
RecordedFebruary 14, March 19 and April 29, 1958
StudioStockholm, Sweden
Genre Jazz
Label Metronome
Quincy Jones chronology
Go West, Man!
(1957)		Quincy's Home Again
(1958)		 The Birth of a Band!
(1959)
Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! cover
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Quincy's Home Again is an album by Quincy Jones with performances by Harry Arnold's Orchestra. The album was recorded in Sweden in 1958 and released by Metronome label. The album was also released in the U.S. as Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! by EmArcy. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic gave the album four stars, calling it "an excellent effort featuring a hard-swinging Swedish band that deserved to be better known in the U.S". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Harry Arnold, except as indicated.

  1. "Quincy's Home Again" – 2:28
  2. "The Midnight Sun Never Sets" (Jones, Dorcas Cochran, Henri Salvador) – 4:07
  3. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 3:14
  4. "Count 'Em" (Jones, Jimmy Cleveland) – 5:30
  5. "Brief Encounter" – 3:04
  6. "Room 608" (Horace Silver) – 3:14
  7. "Kinda Blues" – 6:00
  8. "Meet Benny Bailey" (Jones) - 3:50
  9. "Doodlin'" (Silver) – 5:13

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Mercury Records Catalog: EmArcy 36100 series, accessed October 22, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Home Again – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 22, 2015.
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