Back on the Block
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Back on the Block | |||||
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Studio album by Quincy Jones | |||||
Released | November 8, 1989 | ||||
Recorded | 1989 | ||||
Genre | Jazz | ||||
Length | 57:54 | ||||
Label | Qwest Records | ||||
Producer | Quincy Jones | ||||
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Back on the Block is a 1989 Grammy Award-winning studio album produced by the American jazz and pop arranger Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Ice-T, Tevin Campbell and Ray Charles.
Ella had previously recorded with Jones on her 1963 album Ella and Basie!, which is revered as one of her greatest recordings. Ella is featured on the tracks Jazz Corner of the World (where she is introduced in rap style by Big Daddy Kane), Birdland and Wee B. Dooinit, where she scats alongside Sarah Vaughan and Bobby McFerrin.
By 1989, the great jazz artists featured on this record were past their respective physical and creative peaks, and their performances on this otherwise exhilarating album merely highlight their respective ages. This was to be the last studio recording that Ella Fitzgerald made, a milestone not lost on her biographer Stuart Nicholson, who noted that Ella had come full circle with this album, her last recording echoing the throwaway pop hits that Norman Granz had promised to rescue her from when he created Verve. It was also Sarah Vaughan's last album.
Multiple singles were lifted from the album and found success on Pop and R&B radio, including I'll Be Good To You, I Don't Go For That, The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite), and Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me). Tomorrow is noteworthy for introducing a young Tevin Campbell to the music scene.
Back on the Block won the 1991 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
[edit] Track listing
- "Prologue (2Q's Rap)" (Big Daddy Kane, Quincy Jones) – 1:04
- "Back on the Block" (Kane, Siedah Garrett, Ice-T, Jones, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Caiphus Semenya, Rod Temperton, Tevin Campbell) – 6:34
- "I Don't Go for That" (Ian Prince) – 5:11
- "I'll Be Good to You" (George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Sonora Sam) – 4:54
- "The Verb to Be (Introduction to Wee B. Dooinit)" (Mervyn Warren) – 0:29
- "Wee B. Dooinit (Acapella Party by the Human Bean Band)" (Garrett, Jones, Prince) – 3:34
- "The Places You Find Love" (Glen Ballard, Clif Magness, Caiphus Semenya) – 6:25
- "Jazz Corner of the World (Introduction to "Birdland")" (Kane, Jones, Dee) – 2:54
- "Birdland" (Joe Zawinul) – 5:33
- "Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)" (Ivan Lins, Gilson Peranzzetta) – 5:05
- "One Man Woman" (Garrett, Prince, Harriet Roberts) – 3:44
- "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" (Tevin Campbell) – 4:46
- "Prelude to the Garden" (Jorge Calandrelli) – 0:54
- "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" (El DeBarge, Garrett, Jones, Temperton) – 6:41
[edit] Credits
Recorded in 1989, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:
- Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
- Take 6
- Chaka Khan
- Bobby McFerrin
- Melle Mel
- Ray Charles
- Big Daddy Kane
- Ice-T
- Luther Vandross
- Sarah Vaughan
- Al Jarreau
- Dionne Warwick
- Barry White
- Syreeta Wright
- Grandmaster Melle Mel
- Al B. Sure!
- Tevin Campbell
- Alvin Chea
- Andraé Crouch
- Nadirah Ali
- Maxi Anderson
- Peggie Blu
- McKinley Brown
- Sandra Crouch
- Geary Faggett
- Voncielle Faggett
- Geary Lanier Foggett
- Ken Ford
- Jania Foxworth
- Siedah Garrett
- Tammie Gibson
- Rose Banks
- El DeBarge
- Cedric Dent
- Chad Durio
- Jim Gilstrap
- Jackie Gouche
- Alex Harris
- Howard Hewett
- Reggie Green
- Jennifer Holliday
- Pattie Howard
- James Ingram
- David Thomas
- Mervyn Warren
- Charity Young
- Shane Shoaf
- Alfie Silas
- Perry Morgan
- Phil Perry
- Tyren Perry
- Derrick Schoefield
- Mark Kibble
- Edie Lehmann
- Tiffany Johnson
- Clif Magness
- Donovan McCrary
- Howard McCrary
- Claude McKnight
- Jean Johnson McRath
- Miles Davis - Trumpet
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Gary Grant
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. - Trombone
- Jerry Hey - Trumpet, Arranger, Keyboards
- James Moody - Alto saxophone
- Gerald Albright - Alto saxophone, Vocals
- Paul Jackson Jr. - Guitar
- Michael Landau
- Randy Lukather
- Steve Lukather
- George Benson - Guitar, Vocals
- George Johnson - Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
- Neil Stubenhaus - Bass guitar
- Louis Johnson
- Nathan East
- Ollie Brown - Percussion
- Harvey Mason, Sr.
- Paulinho Da Costa
- J.C. Gomez
- John Robinson
- Bruce Swedien
- Bill Summers - Percussion, Hinedewho
- Michael Boddicker - Synthesizer
- Jorge Calandrelli
- Randy Kerber
- Rhett Lawrence
- David Paich
- Michael Young
- Greg Phillinganes
- Ian Underwood
- Steve Porcaro
- Joe Zawinul - Vocals, Synthesizer
- Larry Williams - Keyboards, Saxophone
- George Duke - Keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Herbie Hancock - Keyboards, Synthesizer Pads
- Sheila E. - Timbales, Soloist
- Glen Ballard - Arranger
- Rod Temperton
- Jesse Jackson - Narrator
- Quincy Jones - Arranger, Drums, Vocals, Korg M1
- Ian Prince - Arranger, Keyboards
- Caiphus Semenya - Arranger, Conductor, Vocal Arrangement
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