ONCE UPON A TIME.....Smackwater Jack

 

QUINCY JONES  Smackwater Jack  (A&M,1971) - Jazz


     “Smackwater Jack” is basically a big band album disguised as a pop album. This formula will work well for Jones a few years later when he starts doing the same thing for Michael Jackson. The big band on “Jack” is all-star affair, some of the soloists include, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Toots Thielman, Jim Hall and Eric Gayle. You can expect plenty of top notch and inspired solos on all these tracks. Unfortunately Quincy sings on two songs, and he’s not a great singer. Also, the theme from the first Bill Cosby show features Bill himself with some ‘amusing’ vocalizing that probably seemed funnier in the past. Other songs on the album also center around TV themes, plus there are few covers of pop and RnB hits too. 

TRACKLIST : Smackwater Jack
                   Cast Your Fate To The Wind
                   Ironside
                   What's Going On
                   Theme From 'The Anderson Tapes'
                   Brown Ballad
                   Hikky Burr
                   Guitar Blues Odyssey: From Roots To Fruits

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