The lack of releases of Q's scores appears to be a combination of lost elements and lack of interest by the labels. Very sad.
Can't recall on which thread i read this, but wasn't MusicBox -- or maybe Quartet -- working at some point on a Quincy Jones box set? I think it was MusicBox because of the mention of a Francis Lai box set too.
The lack of releases of Q's scores appears to be a combination of lost elements and lack of interest by the labels. Very sad.
Nothing on this list has changed since I compiled it four years ago:
Quincy Jones LPs Not On CD
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [Bell] Cactus Flower [Bell] Enter Laughing [Liberty] {Released by Kritzerland, December 2011} For Love of Ivy [ABC] The Hot Rock [Prophesy] In Cold Blood [Colgems] John and Mary (includes various pop) [A&M] The Lost Man [Universal City] MacKenna’s Gold [Tsunami only] [RCA] Mirage [Mercury] Sanford and Son [TV] (includes dialogue) [RCA] The Slender Thread [Mercury]
Unreleased Quincy Jones Feature Film Scores
Banning – 1967 – Universal The Counterfeit Killer – 1968 – Universal The Hell With Heroes – 1968 – Universal Jigsaw – 1968 – Universal A Dandy In Aspic – 1968 – Columbia Up Your Teddy Bear (The Toy Grabbers) – 1970 – Geneni Film Distributing The Out-of-Towners – 1970 – Paramount The Last of the Mobile Hot-shots – 1970 – Warner Bros. The Anderson Tapes – 1971 – Columbia Brother John – 1971 – Columbia Honky – 1971 – Jack H. Harris Enterprises The Getaway – 1972 – Warner Bros. The New Centurions – 1972 – Columbia Get Rich or Die Tryin' – 2005 - Paramount
Then there is some television work for NBC/Universal: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater (“The Faceless Man” – 1963) and Ironside (including the second pilot, “Split Second to an Epitaph” - 1968 and the TV movie “The Return of Ironside” – 1993).
I think Quincy Jones was more than a skilled arranger. Check out his many original jazz compositions, all of them melodically and harmonically interesting, plus his themes for films like "Mirage", "The Deadly Affair", "Enter Laughing", "Walk Don't Run" and "Banning".
I just watched MIRAGE in it's Blu-Ray glory. It still holds up as a thriller and offers a good look of NYC back in the 60s. The actual score is very different from what is recorded on the soundtrack album.
There's a discussion track that accompanies the film, and the narrators commented that the soundtrack album was done in a the easy listening style similar to what Mancini was doing at the time. In fact, Mancini was responsible for Jones getting the MIRAGE assignment. MIRAGE was released between CHARADE and ARABESQUE, and Mancini didn't have the time to do MIRAGE. Mancini vouched for Jones, promising the Universal execs that if Q's score didn't work out he would write a replacement.
Then there is some television work for NBC/Universal: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater (“The Faceless Man” – 1963) and Ironside (including the second pilot, “Split Second to an Epitaph” - 1968 and the TV movie “The Return of Ironside” – 1993).
