Jazz Corner Of The World/Birdland - Quincy Jones (1989)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- "Birdland" was a jazz-fusion instrumental composition written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul of the group Weather Report. It was 1977 when Zawinul composed "Birdland", right around the dying age of pure jazz, and the new wave of fusion. "Birdland" was Zawinul's pride and joy, and his tribute to jazz, but more importantly, his everlasting contribution to music itself. Considered his most famous composition, "Birdland" served as a tribute to the New York City jazz club on 52nd Street that housed a countless amount of famous jazz musicians before him. However, not only was the song named in honor of the legendary jazz club, but also after the man whom the club was named after, Charlie Parker, the 'Bird' himself. It was this club, that he frequented almost daily, that inspired Zawinul to write the song. Soon after the fusion piece reached the top of the charts, it became known as a jazz standard, and soon entered the set lists of many other artists including Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, The Manhattan Transfer, and The String Cheese Incident. One of the best-known, and most star-studded, recordings of "Birdland" appeared on "Back On The Block", a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones. The song, along with the intro track "Jazz Corner Of The World", features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, and James Moody, as well as Joe Zawinul himself. "Back On The Block" topped the R&B Albums chart at number-one for twelve weeks, and topped the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart as well, while peaking at #9 on the Billboard 200 album chart. "Back On The Block" featured the last studio recordings of jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Fitzgerald and Jones had previously worked together on her 1963 album with Count Basie, "Ella And Basie!", and Jones had produced three albums with Sarah Vaughan when they both worked for Mercury Records. At the 33rd Grammy Awards held on February 20, 1991, "Back On The Block" won seven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In arranging, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince and Rod Temperton won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for "Birdland". Jones also won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance for "Birdland", and the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, winning 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album "Thriller" by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song "We Are The World". He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African-American, each of them having seven nominations. This channel is dedicated to the classic jazz music you've loved for years. The smokin' hot, icy cool jams that still make you tap your feet whenever you hear them . . . Cool Jazz is here!
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This version of Birdland is the perfect fusion of the last 50 years of music :) Thank you Quincy, for gathering this group of stars !!!
I'd said of the first three minutes, "How's THAT for a lesson on the history of popular music?"
Crazy how many of these artists died within several years after this was recorded. It was like Quincy knew this would be his last chance to get these greats to perform together
It was an awesome generation of top musicians ❤️🙌
This was GENIUS! Quincy mixed REAL jazz and REAL hip hop...and it worked! Hasn't been done since! Bow down to the greatness!!
Classic! Nobody but Quincy Jones could bring together all this talent and pull it off like he did.
You've reminded me that Jones was the producer for "We are the World", a "popular music all-stars" track from earlier that decade.
I used to listen to this on my dad's cassette player all the time when I was a kid. I knew all of the rap word for word despite not really knowing who any of the musicians were.
alloriginalpirates Cool dad of yours for having you listen to such great music!
alloriginalpirates You just described my childhood. lol.
I was the other way round - having been raised on jazz, I knew about all the jazz musicians named but none of the rappers! :D
You too me n my brother rap every word n I sang it on key good memories u no good music Amen
Don't Mr Quincy Jones look fly I love this video everyone look beautiful Amen
The best I've ever heard. I was in service 1989. Had my first wife loving this.
Yes! A full story, and finally a recording on RUclips which features the much needed intro to this song. Love it!
Quincy Jones' perfect producing skills were in full flex on this track, as he brought together so many jazz greats (for what would prove for many of them to be one of their last recorded performances).
Pure musical exuberance, and the best version of Zawinul's jazz fanfare masterpiece.
Have you tried buying the album / cd?
@@cliffsinclair4900 Yeah! I owned it on cassette and CD and digital at various points.
This joint is the greatest 🎤
There was an undergrad in my high school who got me to listen to this. It was a wake up call - great music and awesome musicians... just totally great! I’ve been listening to these songs for years. Thanks John Maeba Hawkes!!
Crazy how I grew up on this and still see it as one of the most profound ways to build a culmination of music yet still showcase each artist....something that is long forgotten in today's times that can be duplicated in a similar fashion
Man talk about legendary !!!!!!!!!!!
Genius. Period.
Agreed!!!
Exactly.!
For Excellence there are NO WORDS!!
I have the *actual* vinyl! CLASSIC!!!!!!
2024 and this is still one of those songs I have to listen to. Giants once roamed the earth. “Fire breathing monsters” as Quincy once said 😃
[Intro: Charlie Parker & Quincy Jones]
It had to be sweetness
'Cause I'd been in New York all the time, and he brought Charlie Parker in this hotel room, in the Booker Washington Hotel
There was nothing to do but play, you know, and we had a lot of fun trying to play, you know
That man, Charlie Parker, was mine
That was the first time I ever had the pleasure to meet Dizzy Gillespie
I can remember Miles
Miles was in my original band
And Charlie Parker created the sound, and the moment I heard him I said, "that's how music should sound"
[Verse 1: Kool Moe Dee]
A tribute to the Birdman, the father of Birdland
A masterpiece that release the horns, words and
The musical greats, salute the late
Mentor, inventor of a sound that dates back
From bebop to pop and pop to hip hop
We fused the times of jazzing rhymes and got
Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane
To bring on the legends; Kane, hit the names
[Verse 2: Big Daddy Kane]
I kick a rap to what you can relax to
A jazz soloist, play away with the sax
To get the job done, next one up to do his duty
Ladies and gentlemen, mister James Moody
[Saxophone Solo: James Moody]
[Verse 3: Big Daddy Kane]
No one goes the mile like Miles Davis
Watch how he plays this trumpet and pump it
Just like a mechanic handles a tool
Here's the rebirth of the cool
[Trumpet Solo: Miles Davis]
[Verse 4: Big Daddy Kane]
What kind of noise can a string bring
Making you swing and sing things of a musical fling
Well listen to this star, next up is our-
Oh, George Benson bringing the guitar
[Guitar Solo: George Benson]
[Verse 5: Big Daddy Kane]
A voice of choice used just like an instrument
So magnificent, I'm proud to present
Divine, Sassy or A.K.A Sarah Vaughan
Honey, you're on
[Scat Solo: Sarah Vaughan]
[Verse 6: Big Daddy Kane]
I'm introducin' a bop revolution
In jazz that has pizazz, he is one player usin' it
Ask who is he, his first name's Dizzy
Last name Gillespie, now watch him get busy
[Trumpet Solo: Dizzy Gillespie]
[Verse 7: Big Daddy Kane]
Allow me to tell a story about Ella
Fitzgerald, who's sound can never be sterile
A woman with flexibility of range
Making octaves change, go 'head do your thing
[Scat Solo: Ella Fitzgerald]
[Verse 8: Big Daddy Kane]
This is a shoutout to one more man
Joe Zawinul, the writer of Birdland
[Organ Solo: Joe Zawinul]
[Verse 9: Kool Moe Dee]
In the fifties, this was the place to be
From the bands down to the maitre'd
Now, who could forget the MC on the set
The emollient voice of Pee Wee Marquette
[Talking: Pee Wee Marquette]
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening
[Verse 10: Kool Moe Dee]
A sound so profound it's come back around
52nd Street is now world-renowned
With horn licks with kick, and swift riffs to stick
Today bebop makes the hip hop pick
These musical genius's souls are so clever
They changed the face of music forever
And if you can't understand
Here's a past and present Birdland
Man! This brings back MEMORIES!
And, even though it was only a few seconds long, I think my favorite part of the intro was Sarah Vaughan's part! Man! It was sublime.
thank you for posting this quincy jones is and always will be a legend n. all who were on this track i never to this day heard jazz n hip hop sound this beautiful❤👍😉👈
omg i love this song brings back good memories for me as a child growing up❤😉👈
wish I could see the live version of this particular version of Birdland!
I would pay good money to see this
When geniuses hang out with geniuses you get genius galore. Love Weather Report. Quincy Jones is so cool . Even Miles Davis could not resist. Got to love this great performance.
Total Absolute Awesome Masterpiece
One of my fav albums of all time
2020 still seeking this out.
Legendary
Thanks maurice I so enjoyed the music my husband had recording of them all.....
La plus belle version de Birdland.
where has all the good music gone...
Loads around; we're having a Jazz revival here in the UK.
Just love this!!
AMAZING I LOVE IT !!!!!
don't know quite what I'm listening to, but I'm listening...hard!!
Kid's of today really don't understand the historical significance of TRUE hip-hop and modern jazz music/musicians/musicianship!! If they took the time listen and appreciate the concept then they would know! 💯
Still love this album
The #1 Best produced single of 1989!
Polyrhythms...The Forever Music
Love this version. The writer above forgets to include the premiere a capella vocal group on the planet providing the vocal haze. But this is such a fantastic version of Birdland - Love it!!
TAKE 6
No, Manhattan Transfer
It was my second CD, the first was it cuts both ways, i was 19 years old. Such great times
Amazing!
I love this song
Nobody had a flow like Big Daddy Kane... smooth operator indeed..
But man the genius of Quincy for bridging the gap between jazz and hip hop
Thank you djbuddylovecooljazz for your info..this guy Q is one of the best jazz composers of all time..also the best conducter
This is that good shit 🔥
2022 ahhh, music for the soul
I am sooo glad you did a new one! I'm posting it on facebook!
I played in a band in L.A. at the time with J. C. Gomez, who received a Grammy for his percussion playing on this recording. He played the dub mix for me on the way home from band practice, and I asked, "why is Quincy Jones recording this song...it's already been well covered." Little did I know...
the maestro
masterpiece
if someone doesn't elevate the volume of Birdland to match the previous track, I'm going to ring a neck!
Dope!
Love you Quincy Jones 🔥
Legendary.
The Best
These two tracks on the album are the theme song for African America. And by extension, America. THEME SONG, I SAY!
The INTRO is where it's at here....
It was probably a challenge to get the rhyme and meter together on that history lesson
anyone else hear Big Daddy Kane say gillEPsie at 1:54?
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It's irritating those commercials in RUclips. In this song just between the spoken and the singing part of the song.
I used to DO the same, execpt i knew most of the artists...good times
How about the time these all-stars appeared on SNL? It had to be a challenge for Don Pardo to go through the "Musical Guest:..." part
❤👏🎼
Jaco would have loved this
Bensons part damn 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
THANKS
しかし、よくもこんなメンバー集めたなー。売れることわかってるから、皆、印税たっぷりもらってるな。多分、編曲はクインシー自身ではなく、名義貸しだろうな。しかし、これだけカッコよいアレンジだとそんなことはどうでもいいわな。後半、サビの部分かっこいいなー。泣けてくくるなー
BDK
The smooth operator
This is to fuckin much, listen