Quincy? Top man. One of my favourites but sadly so much of his film work is unreleased on CD. Try the first 6 minutes of this clip from 'The Slender Thread' to hear an example of just how good many of his 60s scores were.
You inspired us to do some checkin' around, Maestro. Is this it?
Now all we gotta do is TRACK it down somehow ...
That's it! That's it! They should put it on CD paired with another Mercury Quincy Jones LP like they do his jazz albums. Thanks!
Holy cow, I was in a library yesterday and on the way out there was a "Vinyl Collection" right by the exit. Had a small R&B/ Soundtracks section. The above album caught my eye. Sure had the vintage 1964 look. Nice to find this thread for educational purposes.
Thank you for revising this thread. I just love Quincy Jones, the composer. I will agree to an extant with the poster who said he liked Jones more as an arranger than as a composer, and that extant is that Jones is a masterful arranger, he was always about the chart, and he knew the players and he could really write for the players. Perhaps my favorite example of Q working magic with someone else's material was his version of What's Going On? from Smackwater Jack. Yes, Q's vocals are forgettable, but those solos! And the groove they're placed in are sublime. Walking in Space remains one of my favorite albums, and not just because it was the first jazz album I owned, a gift from my older jazzbo brother in 69 or 70.
I think Q was always more comfortable arranging than composing. Still, as a film scorer, he had a brief but influential run from the mid-sixties into the early seventies. I could ramble on about the great diversity and his ingenious use of unusual instruments, but I won't. he should have gotten more dramatic assignments. In Cold Blood is an outright masterpiece of chilling musical tension. In the Heat of the Night is incredible inventive with the wordless vocals, Roland Kirk flute, tack piano, banjo, cimbalom and so on. Plus, one of my favorite movie songs.
