any thoughts or reflections on this Album?? it's still my favorite Quincy Jones Solo Album overall.I Like a few of His Albums but this one still hits Home&what a Impressive list of Guests here? who knew that Quincy Jones for better or for worse would start the Guest Album as a Normal Way of Making Albums??"Ai No Corrida","Razzamatazz"&"Turn on the Action" are my cuts.Turn on the Action is rumored to have more Imput by Michael Jackson than the credits say.anyway I still dig this Album alot.

This is a good record, the singles from it did well. I really think Quincy was really at his best as a producer.

great album.

He's Q Jones really a so good producer , at least an innovative one...for each song there are plenty "sound/ instruments" "sub-producers"..., also the sound is too bland for me.

BODY HEAT kicks the most ass.

Your farenheit
is out of site
S'alright
I dig body heat

PFunkjazz said:

I got that Album as well.I dig His Soundtrack stuff alot as well.

yea, body heat is deep funk. but my favorites are unbeatable (as always ):
- smackwater jack (ouch... that one hurts)
- gula matari

I love this album!! It's my favorite Quincy Jones album.The production throughout is flawless,and the songs are amazing.I love "Razzamatazz" the best.Patti Austin sings the lead vocals on this fun,mesmerizing number.It reminds me of the summer of '81.

One of the best albums in 1981. This album dominated our R&B radio stations here in Atlanta in 81'. This album and Rick James' STREET SONGS were the two most dominating albums that year. Multiple tracks from this album were being played on the radio. "Al No Corrida" was hitting hard with Louis "Thunder Thumbs" Johnson putting in major work..slapping and pluckin on the bass. Then the title track is a winner. "Just Once" featuring James Ingram was stellar. Then comes the big Patti Austin trio of songs I love. "Bethcha Wouldn't Hurt Me" written by Stevie Wonder used to jam our radio airwaves, then the super awesome "Something Special" was a superior album cut. Then "Razzamatazz" is a Quincy Jones masterwork, before I bought the album, I used to play the 45 rpm until the grooves started wearing on the record. Then Toots Thielemans blows some beautiful harmonica on "Velas" Then James Ingram's"One Hundred Ways" is a beautiful take on how to romance your woman. Then Patti Austin closes the album out on a good note with the "Turn On The Action". Every song on this album is good. Jazz purists didn't like the record, but hey the record still grooves hard. Quincy was surely in the zone with this record.
[This message was edited Mon Apr 28 11:15:42 PDT 2003 by Brother915]

Brother915 said:

It's a sad, pathetic statement as a "jazz" record,
but it still is a delightful pop record. Got it?

PFunkjazz said:

By 1980,I don't think Quincy was really trying to make a "jazz" album,he was clearly into pop by then.

How about a "Devote-A-Thread: Quincy Jones" topic in general...the man is probably one of the most gifted producer/arranger/writer/performers that ever lived...from his early trumpet playing...2 his production of peeps from Frank Sinatra 2 Michael Jackson he has definately left his mark on the music biz.

All props 2 Quincy...may u never tire of giving us ur "ear candy"...

a very solid album indeed, probably the the best during Q's "belle époque"..

in this album Q visits & combines - & masters- several different styles of music..
as such, criticism of this album as being "too pop" or "not a 'real' jazz album," etc., is missing the point; Q wanted to mix these different styles that he loves so much, & he probably realized that in doing so, he could attract pop/r&b fans to "jazz influences"- fans who otherwise wouldn't be exposed to "jazz" while at the same time tweaking "hardcore" jazz fans, possibly bringing them to something they might not normally get into either.

that's 1 of the great things about music:
you can combine different types of music-
or chararteristics of different types of music-
& make something new, different, refreshing..


I'd say "Razzamatazz" is my favorite on this album, I've always had an appreciation of Patti Austin's voice..
it just flows...

DavidEye said:

Well thanks Dave for belaboring the obvious.

mltijchr said:

Thats' the "gateway" theory that some jazz artists thought would bring folks into fusion and pop-jazz and thereby help to grow the audience. Mostly it's been a failure. It has signaled a growth for "WAVE" or smooth jazz, but the desire for acoustic jazz has remained the same at less than 5%, while many of these fusion artists are either excluded from a smooth/WAVE format or are lumped in with jazz. Pop-jazz like this attracts fans of AOR or R&B who listen to Rickie Lee Jones, Steely Dan, Sade or Luther Vandross because it is a similar sound, not because they enlightened by hearing jazz artists play pop.