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The Dude (Quincy Jones/35th Anniversary) “The Dude remains a formidable classic and will always be viewed as an indispensable body of work for Black music,” says producer/composer Adrian Younge, who scored the music for the Blaxploitation parody, Black Dynamite and has produced tracks for Ghostface Killah, Jay-Z and The Delfonics. “It is an exemplary example of this magical formula, but more particularly, it set a bar on how to mold jazz and funk for a wider audience.” |
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Cool article! I had never heard "The Dude". Good news for those with Amazon Prime, Quincy's albums including "The Dude" "Big Band Bossa Nova" and "Free & Easy" are streaming free on Amazon Prime Music. | |
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Probably my fav Q joint.
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"The Dude" is definately my favorite Quincy CD. Those Patti Austin tracks are sublime! "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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kitbradley said: "The Dude" is definately my favorite Quincy CD. Those Patti Austin tracks are sublime! "Razzamatazz" is my favorite song on this album  | |
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my mother was friends with Patti Austin from childhood in Suffolk County Long Island... she always had horrible things to say about Quincy Jones, from when she worked with him... | |
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Really? Wow! Kinda surprising because Quincy has always spoken so highly of Patti. I have a couple of DVDs of Quincy Tributes and Patti performed at both. Hmmmm. You never know. I don't know. Somehow I always got the feeling that Quincy could be difficult. And I do know Patti has a big personality so I can see them maybe clashing a little in the studio. I don't know if you've ever seen Patti live but that woman has a very spicy tongue. Last time I saw her was during her "For, Ella" tour and I was blushing at some of the stuff she was saying between songs. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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A great album by the greatest producer, for a great moment in time, during great day | |
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Quincy and Patti fell out at some point in the '80s after Thriller, Patti talks about it in the 'Many Lives of Q' documentary. They've since made up and she always appears at his various tributes, so she presumably has no more axes to grind with him. | |
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kitbradley said:
Really? Wow! Kinda surprising because Quincy has always spoken so highly of Patti. I have a couple of DVDs of Quincy Tributes and Patti performed at both. Hmmmm. You never know. I don't know. Somehow I always got the feeling that Quincy could be difficult. And I do know Patti has a big personality so I can see them maybe clashing a little in the studio. I don't know if you've ever seen Patti live but that woman has a very spicy tongue. Last time I saw her was during her "For, Ella" tour and I was blushing at some of the stuff she was saying between songs. I know what you mean about Patti's "spicy tongue".  I recall her saying some not-so-nice things about Michael Jackson during one of her shows.That was her duet partner on "It's The Falling In Love" from Off The Wall. | |
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Patti was an artist on Quincy's Qwest record label but I believe she was dropped from the label in the late 80s (after a few poorly selling albums)....so that might explain any bad feelings she has about Quincy. | |
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SoulAlive said: Patti was an artist on Quincy's Qwest record label but I believe she was dropped from the label in the late 80s (after a few poorly selling albums)....so that might explain any bad feelings she has about Quincy. Qwest/WB barely did any promo for any of Patti's albums. "Patti Austin" and "Gettin Away With Murder" (on which she worked with Jam & Lewis) were two damn fine albums. "The Heat of Heat" was her biggest solo song but only on black radio. And even the promo on that format was minimal. They did zero to cross her over, which was surprising since she had so much success with "Baby Come to Me". It was clear she was not a priority at the label. Im sure some of it had to do with the fact that she wasnt considered "video-friendly". "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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I remember when she left Qwest and began doing quiet storm,jazzy material.She seemed quite satisfied to turn her back on R&B."I disavowed "The Heat Of Heat" when I recorded it",she said | |
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