This Is How I Feel About Jazz

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This Is How I Feel About Jazz
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Studio album by
Quincy Jones
ReleasedFebruary 1957, [1] CD: 1992
RecordedSeptember 14, 19 and 29, 1956; February 25, 1957
StudioBeltone Recording Studios, New York City; Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length36:32
Label LP: ABC-Paramount
CD: Impulse!/GRP
Producer Creed Taylor
Quincy Jones (CD bonus tracks)
Quincy Jones chronology
Jazz Abroad
(1955)		This Is How I Feel About Jazz
(1957)		 Go West, Man!
(1957)
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This Is How I Feel About Jazz is a 1957 album by American musician Quincy Jones, [2] his first full-length album as a bandleader after a recording debut with the 1955 split album Jazz Abroad .

Contents

Jones arranged and conducted three recording sessions during September 1956, each with a different line-up, from a nonet to a fifteen piece big band. Musicians on the album include Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson, Art Pepper, Zoot Sims, and Herbie Mann. The bonus tracks on the CD release include compositions by Jimmy Giuffre, Lennie Niehaus and Charlie Mariano.

The album was produced by Creed Taylor and released by ABC-Paramount. The digital reissue on CD in 1992 was repackaged with the label Impulse!, ABCs sub-label for contemporary jazz established by Taylor four years after these sessions took place. The Impulse! version has a cover similar to the original but with the Impulse! logo.

Track listing

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

Additional tracks on CD release (1992) from Go West, Man!'

  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 "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)/"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine)/"Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans)/"You Go to My Head" (Haven Gillespie, Fred Coots)/"Laura" (David Raskin)

Personnel

Tracks 1-2, session from September 29, 1956

Tracks 3-4, session from September 14, 1956

Tracks 5-6, session from September 19, 1956

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

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard Feb 23, 1957
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "This Is How I Feel About Jazz - Quincy Jones | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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