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Why are we having this conversation in a thread dedicated to an artist and musician?
I'll admit that Q's tune "The Streetbeater" prompted the conversation, but that was never the point of my post.
Look at the lineup of people who played on that one tune.
These were the best of the best session players available.
There were at least 10 more top-flight players who collaborated with Q on the other tunes contained on that album. Everyone who was anyone wanted to be on his projects. And that was before he became the mega-producer.
That was how influential Quincy Jones was.
Q was once asked about the instrumentation he chose for this arrangement.
"I chose the bass harmonica, the blues harmonica and the soprano sax, because they all sound like things you'd find in a junk yard." 
That's next-level inspired.Listen to how clever the writing/arranging is: Happy, raucous, infectious.
How upbeat and whimsical the music is.
The crazy-sounding percussion instruments layered in the mix (shakers/maracas).
The way the sax solo is played all gravelly and unrefined-sounding.
The Hammond B3 organ set to sound like the ones played in Baptist churches, but with the Leslie speaker set to high spin, like a Sat. night club. None of that is by accident. It's a very, very finely-honed craft.
Quincy Jones was one-of-a-kind.
He began deep in the esoteric Jazz world, and became a nexus for all popular styles.
read about him![/thread reset]
