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Jazz Abroad (1957)

Where the lyrics of Jazz Abroad take you, and where it was really made.

The two sides of this split album were recorded almost a year apart in Stockholm.

Key places

Recording in Stockholm (1953)

Recording site Stockholm — Both sides of Jazz Abroad were recorded in Stockholm, Side A on 10 November 1953 and Side B on 3 October 1954. The point uses the candidate coordinates and does not pinpoint a studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Jazz Abroad: split album by American jazz drummer Roy Haynes and Quincy Jones
• Tracks recorded in Sweden in 1953 and 1954
• Released by EmArcy, February 1957
• Eight tracks, four per side

Background

• Side A: Quincy Jones credited as arranger and conductor
• Side A personnel: Art Farmer (trumpet), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Åke Persson (trombone), Arne Domnerus (alto saxophone, clarinet), Lars Gullin (baritone saxophone), Bengt Hallberg (piano), Simon Brehm (bass), Alan Dawson (drums)
• Side B personnel: Åke Persson (trombone, tracks 1 and 2), Bjarne Nerem (tenor saxophone, tracks 1 to 3), Ed Gregory, credited as Sahib Shihab (baritone and alto saxophone, tracks 1 to 3), Adrian Acea (piano), Joe Benjamin (bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
• Hagnes credited to Roy Haynes and Sahib Shihab

Recording

• Side A: Stockholm, Sweden, 10 November 1953
• Side B: Stockholm, Sweden, 3 October 1954
• Side B recorded about eleven months after Side A

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago; died November 3, 2024 in Los Angeles at age 91.
• American record producer, musician and composer; a career spanning seven decades.
• Received 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award; seven Academy Award nominations.
• Began as a jazz arranger and conductor in the 1950s, touring with Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie.
• Produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore in the early-to-mid 1960s, including "It's My Party".
• Arranged and conducted for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and others.
• Scored The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job and The Color Purple.
• Produced Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.
• Produced and conducted "We Are the World" (1985) to raise famine relief for Ethiopia.
• Founded Qwest Productions and later Qwest TV, a jazz subscription video service.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.
• The album is a split release, with one side led by Quincy Jones and the other side featuring Roy Haynes.
• Side A credits Quincy Jones as arranger and conductor, with Art Farmer on trumpet.
• Side B features Roy Haynes on drums, Joe Benjamin on bass and Adrian Acea on piano.

Reappraisal

• The page lists only the Allmusic rating as reception.

Records

• Side A recorded in Stockholm on 10 November 1953.
• Side B recorded in Stockholm on 3 October 1954.
• Side A tracks: Pogo Stick, Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away), Jones' Bones, Sometimes I'm Happy.
• Side B tracks: Little Leona, Miss Mopsy, Gone Again, Hagnes.
• Eight tracks in total, four per side.
• Released by EmArcy.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Pogo Stick and Jones' Bones are credited to Quincy Jones alone.
• Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) is credited to George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
• Sometimes I'm Happy is credited to Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey and Vincent Youmans.
• Hagnes is co-written by Roy Haynes and Sahib Shihab, who appears on the session as Ed Gregory.
• Joe Benjamin, the Side B bassist, is also credited as the composer of Miss Mopsy.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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