Back on the Block (Reis) [Original recording remastered]

Back on the Block (Reis) [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B000A2H8WQ

Track Listings

1. Prologue (2 Q's Rap)

2. Back On The Block

3. I Don't Go For That

4. I'll Be Good To You

5. The Verb To Be

6. Wee B. Dooinit

7. The Places You Find Love

8. Jazz Corner Of The Word

9. Birdland

10. Setembro

11. One Man Woman

12. Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)

13. Prelude To The Garden

14. The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

Tracks:

Prologue (2 Q's Rap)
Back On The Block
I Don't Go For That
I'll Be Good To You
The Verb To Be
Wee B. Dooinit
The Places You Find Love
Jazz Corner Of The Word
Birdland
Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)
One Man Woman
Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)
Prelude To The Garden
The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

Customer Reviews:

Back on the Block With A Vengeance.......2007-04-25

I remember seeing all the videos and hearing all the songs on cassette of Quincy Jones' Back on the Block album. I bought the cassette when it came out and eventually purchased the CD, which I still proudly own. Quincy Jones' return marked the return of Barry White (my idol, my mentor, God rest his soul; for I, too, wailed at his passing) in the well-loved "Secret Garden" hit along with Al B. Sure, James Ingram, and El DeBarge. It also marked the debut of Tevin Campbell in "Tomorrow". With Quincy Jones' spin on "Birdland", "The Brazilian Wedding Song", "I'll Be Good To You" and others, the word "classic" is an understatement to appropriately describe this CD; it's definitely a must-have.

His project of a lifetime?.......2006-09-26

The 80s were a very busy decade for Quincy Jones. Between 1979 and 1989 he not only produced three hit albums for Michael Jackson, he also produced hit albums for others, including George Benson, Donna Summer, James Ingram, Patti Austin, The Brothers Johnson, Rufus & Chaka Khan and Ernie Watts. In his 1990 documentary "Listen Up", which documents a lot of the making of this particular album, Jones tells of how overwork and exhaustion ultimately led to a nervous breakdown and two separate aneurysms.

By the time he was ready to make this album, which he describes as his project of a lifetime, music was undergoing a revolution. Disco was long dead and buried, hip-hop was emerging as the predominant force and the smooth jazz-influenced beats Jones was reputed for were falling out of favour.

To give him his due he approached the situation gamely. The title tune, "Back On The Block" was a brave kiss with rap if not a particularly wise one. The song, which features big guns of the time such as Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T and Kool Moe Dee is always fun to listen to but I never heard it played on the radio or at any clubs or parties. "Jazz Corner of The World", his attempt to marry rap with jazz was more interesting and featured jazz luminaries like James Moody, Miles Davis, George Benson, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Josef Zawinul alongside Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane. It's heady, exciting stuff to listen to even now, 17 years later. If nothing else, Q certainly knew where music was heading.

The production on this CD is stunning beyond belief. "Wee B. Dooinit", featuring Siedah Garrett, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Ella Fitzgerald, Take 6 and Sarah Vaughn is a completely acapella performance. McFerrin produced the percussion and bass sound effects and I still wonder exactly where Q placed the microphones.

There are some other great songs. "I'll Be Good To You" featured lead vocals by Ray Charles and Chaka Khan. The album version was good enough but I remember getting the 12" single which had the same backbeat as Soul II Soul's "Keep On Movin'". (Now THAT was a huge club hit). "The Places You Find Love" featured lead vocals from Chaka Khan and Siedah Garrett, with background vocals from Howard Hewitt, Jennifer Holiday, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross and the Andrae Crouch Singers among others.

Apart from her brief stint with the Brand New Heavies, Siedah Garrett's work with Quincy Jones (here and on Michael Jackson's "Bad") have produced the only performances of hers I've managed to find bearable. She seems to have taken the place formerly occupied by Patti Austin in Q's workplan and to give her the credit she's due, she does the job well. She does the vocal arrangement on the majority of the songs and where she took lead vocal duties, like on "I Don't Go For That" and "One Man Woman", she gives a barnstorming performance.

But for me, the album was made by "Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)" featuring Take 6 & Sarah Vaughn, with Gerald Albright on alto sax, George Benson on guitar, George Duke on fender Rhodes and Herbie Hancock on keyboards. The song attained iconic status when John Singleton used it in his classic movie "Boyz N The Hood". (It was the song playing during the love scene between Nia Long and Cuba Gooding, Jr). It's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Q's take on Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and James Moody, is also a personal favourite.

This album is also noted for introducing the world to (the then angelic-voiced) Tevin Campbell. He did the tearjerking "Tomorrow (Better You, Better Me)" with background vocal help from the `children's choir'. And last but by no means least, the album also produced the perennial slow dance song, "The Secret Garden", featuring El DeBarge, James Ingram, Al B. Sure! and Barry White. That one still moves people to this day.

This review is long but I feel to pass this project off with a few lines or a paragraph or two would not be doing its magnitude justice. It's not my all-time favourite Quincy Jones record but I can totally see why he considers it so significant. It is so significant. Getting all these legends of the past and of the future was a huge achievement all by itself. Who else could possibly have gotten all these people into the studio at the same time?

A brilliant album.......2006-06-27

How is it that Quincy Jones manages to make such good albums even though he does not play or sing a single note? Or for that matter, write any of the material?

This album is good from start to finish and spawned a number of hits that charted. You can sit down and listen to it from start to finish any day of the week and have a good experience.

This is the best that Q put out!.......2004-12-28

BACK ON THE BLOCK (1989) is one the best albums that Quincy Jones put out in the late '80s. It shows a new direction in the black culture and black music we're talking 'bout right now.

I think everybody should own this CD even tho it's out-of-print cuz you can go online and get it like spun.com, djangos.com, wherehouse.com, cduniverse.com or gemm.com (where I go where they have all the LPs, cassettes, books, CDs, all of that used and never owned before).

Yeah Quincy put out an album that is so amazing and it still lives from this day forward. This CD has everyone craving about- Jazz, R&B, Funk, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Rap, Hip-Hop, Soul, Pop, etc.- It's full of a variety of different artists from Barry White (whom I recently loved and lost from last year), Ray Charles (we all know who passed this year but still lives on), Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, James Ingram, Tevin Campbell, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Chaka Kahn, Patti Austin of course, The Seawind Horns feat. Jerry Hey and all of 'em, y'know all of the above you can name.

I love this man to death even tho he puts out real stuff like the artists we listen too right is Alicia Keys, Musiq, Mary J. Blige, Grover Washington, Jr., Miles Davis, George Benson, Usher, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men (two of my favorite R&B gurus of all-time), OutKast, Nelly, Steely Dan, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Yolonda Adams, Mase, LL Cool J, Common, The Roots, Guru & Gang Starr, etc.

This is a must-have. Also check out Q's Jook Joint too 'cuz it's a classic.

Well-crafted and colorful masterpiece! .......2004-09-25

Without a doubt one of the most influencial musicians for the past 50 years as of this writing, Quincy Jones is one of the best musicians that on this planet and remains a great influence on music to this day.

His 1989 magnum opus entitled "Back on The Block" is unrivalled by almost everything else. The sheer number of singers and other stars who came aboard for this project is impressive! Starring a huge cast of old-time singers some of whom have sadly since passed away, rappers, and then yet-to-be pop stars this incredible masterpiece is without a doubt a contender for being one of the smartest, most creative, and energetic albums anyone has ever put out. While I don't want to sound too biased with this review but "Back On The Block" is my favorite African-American music album of all time. .

The party begins with a marvelous rap interlude entitled "Prologue (20's rap scene/ Quincy's Rap) which is a fun and energetic warm-up track featuring a wonderful rap dialogue that is really a lot of fun and highly joyous to listen. The title begins with a industrial metallic drum intro similar to that of the title track of Janet Jackson's dynamite "Rhythm Nation" and becomes a marvelous and energetic blend of rap, hip-hop with a New Jack Swing Spice. "I Don't Go For That" is similar to the previous and with a stadium-like New Jack Swing anthem with a fun Manhattan nighttime city feel. "I Don't Go For That" is a wonderful New Jack Swing classic with a highly danceable beat, wonderful melody.

"The Verb To Be" is a really humorous interlude with oddly amplified voice effects and really funny lines. The laughing voices merge into the track "We Be Doing' It". For all of the humor of "Verb" it perfect blends into the hip-hop rhythm and the song has a wonderful mix of R&B, blues, and dance all meshed together. If you're looking for great hip-hop music and for a testament for 1988-1991 being the Golden Era of this once-great genre, look no further. "The Place You Find Love" is one of my absolute favorite tracks on this album. It starts with a dramatic echoing Gospel voice and becomes a powerful Gospel anthem for the ages. The vocals by whoever is singing are absolutely incredible and do wonders for this track.

The next two-some track combo "Jazz Corner of the World" and "Birdland" to me are the apex of this album. "Jazz Corner" has a really perky Brazilian percussion and has a really cool hip rap verse. The groove of "Jazz Corner" perfectly merges into my absolute favorite song on this album "Birdland". This is without a doubt the best song Quincy has ever recorded and quite likely a candidate for the best cover-song I've ever listened to. With amazing bass lines and energetic trumpet horns similar from what one would hear from Phil Collins, the beat is just amazing and the song has a really awesome groove unrivalled by few other songs from 1989. "Septembro" is a sultry soulful instrumental jazz song with really unique chord shift and wonderful wordless vocals.

"One Man Woman" is a great and energetic dance song with a strong New Jack Swing style. "Tomorrow" is sheer and utter beauty featuring a barely teenaged then future-superstar Tevin Campbell singing on vocals and childrens choir. The song has a really positive, cheerful, and uplifting vibe to it.

The final track Secret Garden is one of the sexiest soul ballads of all time with a very Quiet Storm mood and featuring guest vocals from the late R&B crooner Barry White (I cried at the news of his passing) the create a beautiful nighttime closer to this illustrious masterpiece of an album.

This album is just about on the border of being utmost perfection. For all of the hard-work put into it's making this is without a doubt one of the greatest achievements in popular, rock, hip-hop, and rap music history. As of writing this review, I am absolutely horrified to see the term "Out of Stock" actually on this product! For such a stunning achievement that took so much work and was such a huge hit, I for one cannot believe that Warner Brothers don't even carry this album in their catalog anymore! What a terrible disgrace to music history, by denying many fans one of the most positive, smartest, most well-crafted albums that has ever been released.

Wherever you go, I highly urge you to hunt for a copy of this album and buy it without hesitation. If not, then you have no idea of the party that you might find yourself missing out on. Quite simply there's no other album like this nor will there ever be.

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One of my very favorite albums
The Quintessential Q Album!!
The Best Black Music Album I Have Ever Heard!
unavoidable

Back on the Block
Quincy Jones
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Tracks:

Prologue (2 Q's Rap)
Back On The Block
I Don't Go For That
I'll Be Good To You
The Verb To Be
Wee B. Dooinit
The Places You Find Love
Jazz Corner Of The Word
Birdland
Setembro
One Man Woman
Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)
Prelude To The Garden
The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

Customer Reviews:

One of my very favorite albums.......2006-07-20

I grew up listening to great music from artists like Ella Fitzgerald and writers like George and Ira Gershwin. And today I enjoy everyone from Nelly to Yo Yo Ma, and Tom Jobim to Earth Wind and Fire. Q assembled an amazing variety artists on this CD and covered every genre from rap to soft Brazilian jazz. I love every cut on here. My favorite is "The Places You Find Love." I have put it on a couple of compilation CDs and I choke up frequently when I hear it. Jones' rendition of "Birdland," bringing together so many wonderful jazz greats is also an emotional treat. I rarely agree with Grammy choices, but I was SO happy to see this album win in 1991. They just don't get any better than this. Thank you, Quincy Jones and to everyone associated with this amazing CD!

The Quintessential Q Album!!.......2006-02-09

This is by far Quincy Jones's best effort!
And that's saying alot when you consider his other
masterpieces of jazz / pop fusion:
1978's "Sounds & Stuff Like That!" one of my all-time faves!
and a close second to that is 1980's "The Dude",
which, like this one, is just chucked with classic
performances! The whole concept of old school
merging with new school and vice versa has
always really been kind of what Q is about,
but this is his most realized effort.
The late great Sarah Vaughn (Sassy) did her last great performance on this album,
the beautiful and serene brazilian flavored
"Setembre" which just takes my breath away!

Little Tevin Campbell debuts on this one with the
cheerful and brilliant "Tommorow (Better You, Better Me)"
which showed his promise as a gifted young singer.
Sadly, after the little scandal of a few years ago,
poor Tevin has had a hard time getting his momentum back.
Some people's ignorance and intolerance is amazing!
The guy is talented!..Period!...That's all that should factor
in when you purchase his or any other artist's material!

As I've said there are many great performaces on this CD,
but by far..."Secret Garden" is and was an immediate
quiet storm classic and the reason for a slight swell
in birth rates in 1989 and 1990!
Talk about a hall of fame of vocalists
and musicians!--whew!!
You can't go wrong with this one!

The Best Black Music Album I Have Ever Heard!.......2005-08-19

Back On The Block is an excellent recording by the musical renaissance man of Quincy Jones. The caliber of top rate musicians of various age and gender that appear on here is spectacular, covering all the musical genres that are a part of African music; be-bop, doo-wop, accapella, jazz fusion, rap/hip-hop, rhythm and blues, classical and pop-soul, with a mixture of both vocal and instrumental songs. This album is on my iPod frequent playlist. This album won multiple Grammy awards in 1990, including Album Of The Year.

One minor disappointment that I have with the recording is that it does not contain lyrics to the songs. I have an older copy of Back On The Block, which did not contain the lyrics, and when recordings are remastered, there is lyrics included, along with liner notes, extra photos, and bonus material. However the remastered version that I purchased hoping to have the lyrics does not contain them either.

My advice for anyone wanting to find the lyrics, you can check out Quincy Jones music publishing website at www.quincyjonesmusic.com. You can find the lyrics for "Back On The Block", "We B. Dooinit", "Tomorrow (Better You, Better Me)" and the "The Secret Garden" there. The other ones you can find by doing a Google search by song title, but the ones that are difficult to find are for "Prologue (Q's Rap)", "Don't Go For That", "The Verb To Be", and "One Man Woman".

Other than that, I give the album a 5 star review and listening to the recording brings joy for me. I highly recommend this recording to others.

unavoidable.......2005-08-09

this album is absolutely to listened to, if you are a fan of great voices and rhythms. at least 50 artists joined together on these tracks. just listen to we be doin it, all voices, no instruments, al jarreau duets (too shortly) with ella, bobby mc ferrin gives tempo while take 6 do the chorus, ella and al scat at the end. and that is just an exemple. chaka kahn duets with ray charles, jennifer holliday is somewhere in the background, sheila E drums, barry white is around. to complete this album, watch "listen up", the moving movie about quincy, where you see lots of the recording sessions. here you go

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Back on the Block (Limited Cloth Bound)
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Customer Reviews:

Back on Da Block.......2001-05-26

Pete & C.L. heads need to check this single out! As an avid fan of Mecca & the Soul Brother, this song has to rate in the top 5 that they've ever collab'd on. It wets our appetite for what it would be like if they were to ever spit out another cd. They picked up where they left off since doing 1 song on "Soul Survivor" after not doing anything together since '94. Definitely check this out if you haven't heard it yet!!

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