Happy birthday Quincy Jones!

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I love the Sanford & Son theme! I remember when Back On the Block came out and one of my friends bought it and we were all pretty disappointed. I admit to knowing basically nothing about this man's work outside of production. Who's heard any of it? What's good?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheers for "Soul Bossa Nova" (as usurped from its game show them origin to become the theme to the first "Austin Powers" film).

Jeers for Michael Jackson's career.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Radio 3 were doing a Quincy Jones special while I was driving home in the bright Spring sunshine this afternoon and it put a big jazzy smile on my face. Try Blues In The Night from Ocean's Eleven, which I serendipitously watched last night, that's the only one I can name.

I was listening to it and thinking about the Michael Jackson thing - is there a Quincey Jones who's blagging it somehow?

― Mike (mratford), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Just heard the title track off Gula Matari. Happy Birthday to the Q!

― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2009 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

If Michael Jackson intends to follow his tour with new material, then he should work with Q again, just to do a last try to return to form. I see nobody else who can help him with than than the one who got the best out of him the first time around.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 15 March 2009 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

Your entire subculture is a force of overbearing subversion and I hope the Catholic church deals with you accordingly, Quincy Jones.

― rorschaq (usic), Sunday, 15 March 2009 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

rorschaq, does Q's reworking of Händel's Messiah figure in some way in yer road-rage-y eQuation?

― t**t, Monday, 16 March 2009 11:16 (seventeen years ago)

id like to see q produce MJ even if MJ is still intent on getting akon, kanye, neyo and whoever else thats hot right now to write for him. i think those guys would give mj their best songs though.

― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:21 (seventeen years ago)

What he doesn't realize is that Q wasn't "hot right now" in the 70s or 80s, but he was still the right guy for MJ, and would still be today. If he is going to get his best out on record, he needs it to sound like a Michael Jackson album, not a second rate Justin Timberlake album.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 March 2009 12:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://soulfunkjazz.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/delantera.jpg

― m coleman, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, a great album, but if MJ was to choose the hottest producer of the day back then, he'd be more likely to have picked Jolley & Swain or something. And he kept on working with Q with great effects in 1987 too, even though Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were probably much "hotter" then.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

Besides Jolley & Swain, maybe Trevor Horn or Mike Chapman (although Chapman may have been on his way out, at least in 1982)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

(Actually, in 1979, the Gibb brothers were probably the hottest producers in the world)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 March 2009 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

Your entire subculture is a force of overbearing subversion and I hope the Catholic church deals with you accordingly, Quincy Jones.

― rorschaq (usic), Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:39 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― it's a harb knock life for us (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 15 November 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

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