Alex Jones

Q's Jook Joint blends the latest in hip-hop-flavored productions with sleek urban ballads, vintage standards, and derivative pieces; everything's superbly crafted, though few songs are as exciting in their performance or daring in their conception as past Jones epics like Gula Matari or the score from Roots. Still, you can't fault Jones for his choice of musical collaborators: everyone from newcomer Tamia to longtime stars like Ray Charles, rappers, instrumentalists, male and female vocalists, percussionists, and toasters. The CD really conveys the seamless quality one gets from attending a juke joint, though it lacks the dirt-floor grit or blues fervor of traditional Southern and chitlin circuit hangouts. But no one's more knowledgeable about the spectrum of African-American music, nor better able to communicate it via disc, than Quincy Jones.

Q's Jook Joint is an album by Quincy Jones, released on November 7, 1995 through Qwest Records. This was Jones' first studio album in six years, preceded by Back on the Block in 1989 and followed by From Q With Love in 1999. Q's Jook Joint won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 1997.

Thad Jones - And The Danish Radio Big Band & Eclipse (2013) {2CD Set, Storyville Records Digital Issue rec 1978-1980}
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Jazz / Modern Big Band / Modern Arrangement / Cornet

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band visited Scandinavia a couple of times and was a sensation. Later when Mel Lewis and Thad Jones had some difficulties Thad got an offer from the Danish Radio Big Band where his first season was (1977-78). Thad Jones wanted to play his own music and played as many as ten radio broadcasts per year at the Montmartre Club. At the same time he also started up his own big band, Eclipse, with his own repertoire, based at Jazzhus Slukefter in the Tivoli Garden.