There can’t be many contact books to rival the one owned by Quincy Jones. Early in 1996, it helped the good producer-artist to a gold album in America for the sixth time in his incomparable profession, with the star-studded Q’s Jook Joint.
Released in the direction of the tip of 1995, the album was Jones’ first for the reason that very profitable, and equally star-laden, Back On The Block six years earlier. Soon after the flip of the yr, and earlier than it received the celebrated Album of the Year Grammy, that set turned each gold and platinum on the identical day within the US.
Q’s Jook Joint took its bow with a string of visitor appearances and a few well-chosen remakes of songs from Quincy’s previous. The R&B Top 20 hit from the set was “You Put A Move On My Heart,” first recorded by British soul singer Mica Paris. Significantly, it written and produced for her Whisper A Prayer album by the late Rod Temperton, the British expertise so carefully related to Q’s productions of his songs for Michael Jackson.
The new model featured vocals by Canadian singer Tamia, who, consistent with Jones’ coverage of giving younger expertise a break, took her place amongst a forged checklist of family names. These included the formidable trio of Stevie Wonder, Bono, and Ray Charles, who all featured on an replace of the much-covered 1946 hit by jump-jive hero Louis Jordan, “Let The Good Times Roll.” From the identical period got here a brand new interpretation of Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me,” with lead vocals by Phil Collins.
Quincy visited his personal previous to redo the hit he produced for the Brothers Johnson, “Stomp!,” now spotlighting Chaka Khan, Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band, Shaquille O‘Neal, and others, as well as the cast of the hit musical of the same name. Jones’ personal 1978 hit “Stuff Like That” introduced its authentic vocalist, Khan, again to the mic together with Charles, Wilson, Brandy and Ashford & Simpson. Brandy was additionally featured with Heavy D on a model of Jackson’s hit, and one other classic Quincy/Rod collaboration, “Rock With You.”
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So the wonderful visitor checklist went on, and document patrons have been suitably impressed. Even if the album peaked at No.32 on the Billboard 200, it was licensed gold by the RIAA on January 18, 1996, and higher was to come back eight months later, when Q’s Jook Joint grew to become Quincy’s fourth, and most up-to-date, US platinum album.
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