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1961 studio album by Quincy Jones
I Dig Dancers is an album Quincy Jones that was released by Mercury with performances recorded in Paris and New York City.[1]
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AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.[2]
- "Pleasingly Plump" (Quincy Jones) - 2:15
- "G'wan Train" (Patti Bown) - 6:20
- "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) - 2:47
- "Tone Poem" (Melba Liston) - 3:40
- "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) - 2:30
- "Chinese Checkers" (David Carr Glover) - 2:41
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10
- "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador, Dorcas Cochran) - 4:29
- "Trouble On My Mind" (Ray Noble) - 2:51
- "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes) - 2:32
Bonus tracks on CD reissue:
- "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 3:50
- "Pleasingly Plump" [First Take] (Jones) - 2:29
- "G'wan Train" [Short Version] (Bown) - 3:00
- "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 2:07
- "Blues from Free and Easy" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:00
Collective Personnel
[edit]- Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor
- Benny Bailey, Freddie Hubbard, Lennie Johnson, Jerry Kail, Clyde Reasinger, Floyd Standifer, Clark Terry - trumpet
- Wayne Andre, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Åke Persson - trombone
- Julius Watkins - French horn
- Joe Lopes, Porter Kilbert, Phil Woods - alto saxophone
- Budd Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone
- Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone
- Patti Bown - piano
- Les Spann - guitar, flute
- Buddy Catlett - bass
- Joe Harris, Stu Martin - drums
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Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release. |
Albums
as
leader
or
co-leader |
- Open Sesame (1960)
- Goin' Up (1960)
- Hub Cap (1961)
- Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961)
- Ready for Freddie (1961)
- The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962)
- Hub-Tones (1962)
- Here to Stay (1962)
- The Body & the Soul (1963)
- Breaking Point! (1964)
- Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965)
- The Night of the Cookers (1965)
- Blue Spirits (1965–66)
- Backlash (1966)
- High Blues Pressure (1967)
- A Soul Experiment (1968–69)
- The Black Angel (1969)
- The Hub of Hubbard (1970)
- Red Clay (1970)
- Straight Life (1970)
- Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970)
- First Light (1971)
- Polar AC (1971–73)
- Sky Dive (1972)
- Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
- Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973)
- In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974)
- High Energy (1974)
- Gleam (1975)
- Liquid Love (1975)
- Windjammer (1976)
- Bundle of Joy (1977)
- Super Blue (1978)
- The Love Connection (1979)
- Skagly (1979)
- Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980)
- The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980)
- The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980)
- Born to Be Blue (1981)
- Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981)
- Outpost (1981)
- Rollin' (1981)
- Splash (1981)
- Above & Beyond (1982)
- Back to Birdland (1982)
- Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982)
- Ride Like the Wind (1982)
- The Rose Tattoo (1983)
- Sweet Return (1983)
- Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985)
- Life Flight (1987)
- The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987)
- Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988)
- Times Are Changing (1989)
- Topsy – Standard Book (1989)
- Bolivia (1990–91)
- At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991)
- Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991)
- Blues for Miles (1992)
- MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95)
- New Colors (2000)
- On the Real Side (2007)
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With Art
Blakey/The
Jazz
Messengers | |
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With
Dexter
Gordon | |
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With
Herbie
Hancock | |
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With
Bobby
Hutcherson | |
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With
Quincy
Jones | |
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With
Wayne
Shorter | |
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With
others |
- The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966)
- The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969)
- Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960)
- True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960)
- God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971)
- Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979)
- Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
- Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
- Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961)
- Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
- Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965)
- Muses for Richard Davis (1969)
- Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960)
- Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964)
- Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
- Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973)
- Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
- Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962)
- Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
- Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962)
- Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961)
- Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962)
- Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
- Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
- Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
- Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996)
- Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965)
- Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965)
- Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972)
- Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973)
- 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978)
- Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988)
- J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
- Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982)
- Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62)
- Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979)
- Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963)
- Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961)
- MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994)
- Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958)
- Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960)
- The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961)
- Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966)
- The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
- Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965)
- Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965)
- East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966)
- Numbers (Rufus, 1978)
- Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
- Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973)
- Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970)
- Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978)
- Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980)
- Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. |
As
leader
or
co-leader | |
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With
Duke
Ellington | |
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With
Johnny
Hodges | |
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With
Quincy
Jones | |
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With
Herbie
Mann | |
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With
Oliver
Nelson | |
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With
others |
- My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1959)
- Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments (Bob Brookmeyer, 1961)
- Soul Summit Vol. 2 (Gene Ammons, 1961)
- Late Hour Special (Gene Ammons, 1961–62)
- Velvet Soul (Gene Ammons, 1962)
- One Foot in the Gutter (Dave Bailey, 1960)
- Gettin' Into Somethin' (Dave Bailey, 1960)
- Goodies (George Benson, 1968)
- Bobo's Beat (Willie Bobo, 1968)
- Jam Session (Clifford Brown, 1954)
- Ruth Brown '65 (Ruth Brown, 1964)
- Who Is Gary Burton? (1962)
- Byrd at the Gate (Charlie Byrd, 1963)
- Son of Drum Suite (Al Cohn, 1960)
- The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron, 1962)
- Afro-Jaws (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960)
- Trane Whistle (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960)
- Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1962)
- Ella Abraça Jobim (Ella Fitzgerald, 1980–81)
- Big Band Bossa Nova (Stan Getz, 1962)
- Stan Getz Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One (1965)
- Gillespiana (Dizzy Gillespie, 1960)
- Carnegie Hall Concert (Dizzy Gillespie, 1961)
- Cookin' (Paul Gonsalves, 1957)
- The Big Soul-Band (Johnny Griffin, 1960)
- White Gardenia (Johnny Griffin, 1961)
- Homage to Duke (Dave Grusin, 1993)
- The Further Adventures of El Chico (Chico Hamilton, 1966)
- It's About Time (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961)
- You Better Know It!!! (Lionel Hampton, 1964)
- Really Big! (Jimmy Heath, 1960)
- Friends Old and New (John Hicks, 1992)
- Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (JATP, 1983)
- Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960)
- J.J.! (J.J. Johnson, 1964)
- Goodies (J.J. Johnson, 1965)
- Concepts in Blue (J.J. Johnson, 1980)
- Summit Meeting (Elvin Jones, 1977)
- Down Home (Sam Jones, 1962)
- At Newport '63 (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963)
- The Centaur and the Phoenix (Yusef Lateef, 1960)
- Themes from Mr. Lucky, The Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (Mundell Lowe, 1960)
- Satan in High Heels (Mundell Lowe, 1961)
- The Soul of Hollywood (Junior Mance, 1962)
- The Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" (Gary McFarland, 1961)
- Tijuana Jazz (Gary McFarland, 1965)
- Mingus Revisited/Pre-Bird (Charles Mingus, 1960)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Smooth as the Wind (Blue Mitchell, 1960–61)
- A Sure Thing (Blue Mitchell, 1962)
- Jazz Dialogue (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1965)
- Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (1960)
- Gerry Mulligan '63 (Gerry Mulligan, 1962)
- That's How I Love the Blues! (Mark Murphy, 1962)
- Nine Flags (Chico O'Farrill, 1966)
- Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974)
- The Alternate Blues (Oscar Peterson, 1980)
- The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980)
- Basically Duke (Oscar Pettiford, 1954)
- The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (Big Joe Turner, 1974)
- Bossa Nova Carnival (Dave Pike, 1962)
- Jazz for the Jet Set (Dave Pike, 1965)
- Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (1958)
- New Fantasy (Lalo Schifrin, 1964)
- Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
- Hobo Flats (Jimmy Smith, 1963)
- The Matadors Meet the Bull (Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- I Keep Comin' Back! (Sonny Stitt, 1966)
- Taylor Made Jazz (Billy Taylor, 1959)
- New York City R&B (Cecil Taylor, 1961)
- Kwamina (Billy Taylor, 1961)
- Out of the Storm (Ed Thigpen, 1966)
- Devil May Care (Teri Thornton, 1960–61)
- Joyride (Stanley Turrentine, 1965)
- Live at Newport (McCoy Tyner, 1963)
- Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- At Newport '63 (with Joe Williams, 1963)
- New York, New Sound (Gerald Wilson, 2003)
- Kai Olé (Kai Winding, 1961)
- The Colorful Strings of Jimmy Woode (Jimmy Woode, 1957)
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