Quincy Jones This Is How I Feel About Jazz © 1992 GRP Records, Inc. Impulse! GRP11152 Compact Disc

Our prime objectives in this album were soul, groove and honesty. I am very grateful to have such musically compatible constituents (wailin' friends) to help make it possible for me to express how I feel abot Jazz.

Quincy Jones, 1957 (from liner notes)

Tracks

3. Evening In Paris (4:06) (Carpenter)
4. Sermonette (5:55) (Adderley)
5. A Sleepin' Bee (4:38) (Arlen/Capote)
6. Boo's Blues (5:12) (Jones)

   All arrangements by Quincy Jones

Personnel

• 3,4:
  • Art Farmer - trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
  • Gene Quill - alto sax
  • Zoot Sims - tenor sax (on 3)
  • Lucky Thompson - tenor sax (on 4)
  • Herbie Mann - flute, tenor sax
  • Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
  • Milt Jackson - vibes
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums
• 5,6:
  • Art Farmer - trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
  • Phil Woods - alto sax
  • Lucky Thompson - tenor sax
  • Herbie Mann - flute
  • Jack Nimitz - baritone sax
  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums

Information

Date and location

• 3,4: September 14, 1956, Beltone Recording Studios, New York
• 5,6: September 16 (Priestley) or September 19 (CD), 1956, Beltone Recording Studios, New York

Original issue (year)

ABC Paramount 149 (1957)

Producer

Creed Taylor

Engineer

Irv Greenbaum

Liner notes

Quincy Jones and Ralph J. Gleason

Comments

Tracks 1, 2 and 7-12 do not include Charles Mingus.

See also

• Quincy Jones on Impulse!