Listening to Quincy Jones' 1969 release Walking in Space.
Dear God Where Has it Been All My Life?!
Only Q could corral the likes of Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard, (pre-Rahsaan) Roland Kirk, J.J. Johnson and other greats onto one, funky album that conveys all that is transcendent about that period of low-fi, sleazy, hipster jazz. The cheeseball flute breaks and the girlie chorus only excite me more. Walking in Space falls into the same category as that crazy Quincy record with Bill Cosby, Less McCann and Milt Jackson (The Original Jam Sessions) and maybe Herbie Hancock's Blow-Up Soundtrack he did with the Yardbirds.
Dear God Where Has it Been All My Life?!
Only Q could corral the likes of Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard, (pre-Rahsaan) Roland Kirk, J.J. Johnson and other greats onto one, funky album that conveys all that is transcendent about that period of low-fi, sleazy, hipster jazz. The cheeseball flute breaks and the girlie chorus only excite me more. Walking in Space falls into the same category as that crazy Quincy record with Bill Cosby, Less McCann and Milt Jackson (The Original Jam Sessions) and maybe Herbie Hancock's Blow-Up Soundtrack he did with the Yardbirds.
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