Quincy Jones - Six Complete Albums 1957-1961 [3 CDs]

Quincy Jones has become one of the most prominent personalities in popular music as a trumpeter and pianist who became an arranger, composer, bandleader, record producer and film & TV producer, and winner of a Grammy Legend Award in 1992, and who in 2022 is still active after a 70-year career. Tracks include "Evening in Paris," Be My Guest," "Walkin," "Sermonette," and more. Features legendary artists such as Phil Woods, Julius Watkins, Patti Bown and more. In the era addressed here in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, Jones was leading his own highly-acclaimed big band, touring the world, although it failed to make money, with Jones saying: “We had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving. That's when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business.” This 56-track, 3-CD set comprises jazz and big band recordings from his early career leading his own band, and includes all the titles from his original LPs “This Is How I Feel About Jazz” a