1957 studio album by Quincy Jones
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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 .
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
Additional tracks on CD release (1992) from
Go West, Man! '
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
Art Farmer - trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
Herbie Mann - flute
Phil Woods - alto saxophone
Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone
Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
Billy Taylor - piano
Charles Mingus - bass
Charlie Persip - drums
Added tracks 7–12, session from February 25, 1957
Production
The original album tracks were recorded by Irv Greenbaum at Beltone Recording Studios, NYC.
Originally produced by
Creed Taylor
Added tracks from the album Go West, Man! were originally recorded by John Kraus and produced by Quincy Jones.
Digital remastering by Erick Labson
Reissue post-production – Adam Zelinka, Joseph Doughney, Michael Landy
Reissue Producer –
Michael Cuscuna
Executive Producers –
Dave Grusin ,
Larry Rosen
References
Albums Compilations Live albums Singles Other works
With Michael Jackson With Frank Sinatra Single collaborations
Films
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader
The Brothers (and
Stan Getz , 1949–52)
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
Tonite's Music Today (and
Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)
Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
Zoot! (1956)
Locking Horns (and
Joe Newman , 1957)
Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn,
Phil Woods , 1959)
Down Home (1960)
Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (
Jimmy Raney and
Jim Hall , 1964)
Inter-Action (and
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Waiting Game (1966)
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
Nirvana (and
Bucky Pizzarelli ,
Buddy Rich , 1974)
Basie & Zoot (and
Count Basie , 1975)
The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and
Joe Pass ,
Oscar Peterson , 1975)
Soprano Sax (1976)
Hawthorne Nights (1976)
If I'm Lucky (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1977)
For Lady Day (1978)
Warm Tenor (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1979)
The Sweetest Sounds (and
Rune Gustafsson , 1979)
Just Friends (and
Harry Edison , 1980)
Art 'n' Zoot (and
Art Pepper , 1981)
Recordings with
Al Cohn
From A to...Z (1956)
The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
Tenor Conclave (and
Hank Mobley ,
John Coltrane , 1957)
The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and
Herbie Steward ,
Serge Chaloff , 1957)
Al and Zoot (1957)
Blues and Haikus (
Jack Kerouac , 1959)
SteveIreneo! (and
Irene Kral ,
Steve Allen , 1959)
Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
You 'n' Me (1960)
Either Way (1961)
Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
Body and Soul (1973)
Motoring Along (1974)
With
Quincy Jones With
Gerry Mulligan With others
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
Encounter! (
Pepper Adams , 1968)
Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (
Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn,
Tony Scott , 1956)
Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
The Bosses (Count Basie and
"Big Joe" Turner , 1973)
Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
Jazz Is Universal (
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)
Chris Connor (1956)
The Book Cooks (
Booker Ervin , 1960)
Loose Blues (
Bill Evans , 1962)
The Aztec Suite (
Art Farmer , 1959)
South American Cookin' (
Curtis Fuller , 1961)
Creole Cookin' (
Bobby Hackett , 1967)
The Hawk in Hi Fi (
Coleman Hawkins , 1956)
Portraits on Standards (
Stan Kenton , 1953)
The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
Profiles (
Gary McFarland , 1966)
Something to Swing About (
Carmen McRae , 1959)
Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
The Complete Town Hall Concert (
Charles Mingus , 1962)
Arranged by Montrose (
Jack Montrose , 1954)
Encyclopedia of Jazz (
Oliver Nelson , 1966)
The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
All the Sad Young Men (
Anita O'Day , 1962)
Transition (Buddy Rich,
Lionel Hampton , 1974)
Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
Samba Para Dos (
Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
Moonlight in Vermont (
Johnny Smith , 1952)
Phoebe Snow (1974)
Broadway Soul (
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Vaughan and Violins (
Sarah Vaughan , 1958)
The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
At Newport '63 (
Joe Williams , 1963)