| Quincy Jones - Back On The Block
(1989)
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| Cover Front |
Album |
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| Artist/Composer |
Quincy Jones |
| Format |
CD |
| Genre |
General Jazz; General Pop |
| Label |
Warner |
| Index |
408 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Packaging |
Jewel Case |
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| Track List |
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| 01 |
Prologue (Q's Rap) |
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| 02 |
Back On The Block |
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| 03 |
I Don't Go For That |
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| 04 |
I'll Be Good To You |
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| 05 |
[The Verb To Be] |
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| 06 |
We B. Dooinit [Acappella Party] |
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| 07 |
The Place You Find Love |
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| 08 |
[Jazz Corner Of The World] |
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| 09 |
Birdland |
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| 10 |
Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song) |
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| 11 |
One Man Woman |
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| 12 |
Tomorrow (Better You, Better Me) |
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| 13 |
[Prelude To The Garden] |
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| 14 |
The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Sweet) |
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| Details |
| Spars |
DDD |
| Rare |
No |
| Sound |
Stereo |
| UPC |
075992602020 |
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| Notes |
| Qwest./Warner 9 26020-2 Back on the Block Artist Quincy Jones Album Title Back on the Block Date of Release 1989 (release) inprint AMG Rating (Best-of-Artist) Genre Rock, Jazz Styles Crossover Jazz, Pop Time 57:54 AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Having let eight years pass since his last A&M album, Quincy Jones made his debut on his own label with his most extravagant, most star-studded, most brilliantly sequenced pop album to date - which could have only been assembled by the man who put together "We Are The World." Q was one of the first Establishment musicians to embrace rap, and he does so here with a big bear hug, getting it to percolate and move with finger-popping verve. He was also one of the first to link rap with his jazz heritage; it's hard not to be moved be the likes of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Zawinul, Sarah Vaughan and George Benson electronically appearing on "Birdland" and trading brief licks with the likes of Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane on "Jazz Corner Of The World." Later, jazz buffs would vilify Quincy for not taking fuller advantage of this onetime constellation of jazz stars - some of whom died shortly thereafter - but at the time, it seemed like a marvelous dialogue between the old and the new. "Wee B. Dooinit" is an astonishing a cappella tour de force - with lead vocals by Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin providing a good deal of the vocal percussion, Ella scatting, and Take 6 all over the place. Of course, as Q well knew, celebrating jazz history is not the surest route to a blockbuster hit record, so there are plenty of radio-friendly urban pop productions here, with Herbie Hancock and George Duke on keyboards, Siedah Garrett and 12-year-old Tevin Campbell on vocals, and too many more luminaries to mention. Despite the presence of an enthused Ray Charles, Chaka Khan and the Brothers Johnson, the overly busy techno remake of "I'll Be Good To You" doesn't cut the Johnsons' original - nor does "Tomorrow." Ultimately the most popular track would be the most tedious for the jazz listener, "The Secret Garden, " with a parade of smooth soul balladeers producing makeout music at length. Yet Back On The Block remains a strikingly durable piece of entertainment, and in hindsight, a poignant signpost of the changing of the guard. -- Richard S. Ginell Big Daddy Kane - Rap Kool Moe Dee - Rap Sandra Crouch - Vocals (bckgr) Take 6 - Vocals (bckgr) Dionne Warwick - Vocals (bckgr) Ray Charles - Vocals Siedah Garrett - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr) Howard Hewett - Vocals (bckgr) Jennifer Holliday - Vocals (bckgr) James Ingram - Vocals (bckgr) Luther Vandross - Vocals (bckgr) Gerald Albright - Vocals George Benson - Guitar, Vocals Miles Davis - Trumpet, Vocals Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet Herbie Hancock - Keyboards Quincy Jones - Vocals, Handclapping, Producer James Moody - Sax (Alto) Bill Reichenbach - Trombone Bill Summers - Percussion, Hinedewho Tevin Campbell - Vocals Phil Perry - Vocals (bckgr) Rose Banks - Vocals (bckgr) Peggi Blu - Vocals (bckgr) Tyren Perry - Vocals (bckgr) Jesse Jackson - Narrator Howard McCrary - Vocals (bckgr) Al B. Sure - Vocals (bckgr) Nadirah Ali - Vocals (bckgr) Maxi Anderson - Vocals (bckgr) Joe Zawinul - Vocals Michael Boddicker - Synthesizer, Programming Ollie E. Brown - Percussion Chaka Khan - Vocals Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion Sheila E. - Timbales Nathan East - Bass Voncielle Faggett - Vocals (bckgr) Jackie Gouche - Vocals (bckgr) Jania Foxworth - Vocals (bckgr) Tammie Gibson - Vocals (bckgr) Jim Gilstrap - Vocals (bckgr) Gary Grant - Trumpet Reggie Green - Vocals (bckgr) Jerry Hey - Trumpet, Keyboards Pattie Howard - Vocals (bckgr) Ice-T - Rap Paul Jackson, Jr. - Guitar George Johnson - Guitar, Vocals (bckgr) L |
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