Quincy Jones – Jazz Man (VG+/VG+) – LP, US 1982

Jazz Man is an LP by Quincy Jones from 1982 released on the Phonorama Records label.

About this album

Foundations of Modern Jazz brings together essential post-war jazz sides from Charles Mingus, Osie Johnson and His Orchestra, the Birdlanders and the Jones Boys. Rather than a single cohesive album, it presents a snapshot of the music’s formative years, when small-group swing, hard bop and modern arranging ideas were reshaping the language of jazz. Mingus’s restless invention sits alongside tightly wound ensemble writing and stylish studio performances, showing how the era moved between blues feeling, virtuosic improvisation and sharper harmonic thinking. As a compilation, it is less about one bandleader’s statement than about tracing the style’s development through key recordings.

Genre: Soul & Funk