Walking in Space

Artist: Quincy Jones
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731454349925
EAN: 0731454349925
ASIN: B00004STN3

Release Date: 2000-04-18

Related Categories:

General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Pop | Styles | Music

General

| R&B | Styles | Music

General

| Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

Smooth Jazz

| Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band

| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Listmania:

QUINCY JONES...AND STUFF LIKE THAT!!
15 'Albums' Quincy Jones Produced or Arranged.
"Straight-Ahead Jazz for Fans of Smooth Jazz"
The Arranger's Touch (expanded)
10 Great Jazz Albums (my favorites)
More greats from my music collection.

Tracks:

Dead End
Walking In Space
Killer Joe
Love And Peace
I Never Told You
Oh, Happy Day

Similar Items:

Body Heat
Smackwater Jack
Sounds...And Stuff Like That!!
Big Band Bossa Nova
The Original Jam Sesssions 1969

Customer Reviews:

Walking In Space.......2006-07-05

This was my first exposure to jazz in the 70's. Sounds much better on CD.

A reference album of modern big band in the 60s.......2006-02-18

Where to begin? Let me try with my dear track, Johnny Mandel's theme from 'That Cold Day in The Park', here under the title 'I Never Told You', here with such beautiful lines by Toots Thielemens.

There's also Benny Golson's 'Killer Joe', really a killer with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and Hubert Laws on flute.

Such definitive arrangements, a treasure forever.

Outstanding CD from the 60s.......2006-01-22

Seems that the older I get, the more likely I am to buy music I listened to in the 60s and 70s. Q's Walking in Space was one of the first jazz records I listened to, on 8-track tape. It was then, and always has been one of my very favorite jazz recordings. Highly recommended!

A Great Recording! Joy Joy! Buy Now!!!.......2006-01-18

The best of the early 70's deluge of renditions of the music from HAIR, gorgeous arranging underpins this showcase for so much fine playing. While the music from Hair was a trendy keg to tap for artists who had their best work behind them by the early 70's, Jones the arranger's honest and uncluttered treatment of the idiosyncratic, unformulaic songs covered here makes this a supremely delicious recording.
Jones masterly ear for harmonic hues and the relentlessly spirited swinging performances of the band kick this record into my "classic" pantheon of jazz records. It's that good, People.

Killer Joe's definative recording finds its perfect tempo, the chorus building on mahogany rich chord voicings. The title track is a heady 14 minute jazz-trip (a 1970 thing, man) with playful, melodic, hard-swinging solos (after a few listens you'll be humming along with them) from flute master Hubert Laws and sax giant Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
The rhythm section bounces gleefully all over this record and the vividly crystal analog recording captures the exquisite horn textures and crackling rim shots with thrilling results. Somewhere in the space between granite-solid mainstream jazz and inventive late 60's pop this stands as a really good rekerd.
This record is over 13 years of age. Thank You.

Essential.......2005-02-07

This is worth the price. A great classic from the man himself. Mr. Quincy Jones aka "The Dude", "The Q", you name it. He's such a pionner to me when he put out albums that means something to the world. I would luv 4 him to come back and do another one sometime in the near future. The last album I heard from him was "Basie and Beyond" which was put out in 2000. But long story short, if u're involved in the centuries of jazz today: Gil Evans and Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, GRP All-Star Big Band, Al Hirt, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Count Basie, Oliver Nelson, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Grover Washington, The Crusaders, Freddie Hubbard, among others. You gotta have this CD. 'Cuz it features the cut "Killer Joe" which I like. All of it is good. Just can't wait until I pick it up. Highly recommended.

Music CD:

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Dare Iz a Darkside ~ Redman

All the Rage ~ General Public

Greatest Zits: 1990-2003 ~ The Ziggens

Forced March ~ Madagascar

Things We Need ~ Gogogo Airheart

Immersion ~ Mayfly

The Hogyssey ~ Spacehog

Grateful Triad Years

Stupid Doo Doo Dumb ~ Mac Dre

Mesmerize ~ Ja Rule , and Ashanti