Jazz Corner Of The World/Birdland - Quincy Jones (1989)

"Birdland" was a jazz-fusion instrumental composition written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul of the group Weather Report. It was 1977 when Zawinul composed "Birdland", right around the dying age of pure jazz, and the new wave of fusion. "Birdland" was Zawinul's pride and joy, and his tribute to jazz, but more importantly, his everlasting contribution to music itself. Considered his most famous composition, "Birdland" served as a tribute to the New York City jazz club on 52nd Street that housed a countless amount of famous jazz musicians before him. However, not only was the song named in honor of the legendary jazz club, but also after the man whom the club was named after, Charlie Parker, the 'Bird' himself. It was this club, that he frequented almost daily, that inspired Zawinul to write the song. Soon after the fusion piece reached the top of the charts, it became known as a jazz standard, and soon entered the set lists of many other artists including Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, The Manhattan Transfer, and The String Cheese Incident. One of the best-known, and most star-studded, recordings of "Birdland" appeared on "Back On The Block", a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones. The song, along with the intro track "Jazz Corner Of The World", features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, and James Moody, as well as Joe Zawinul himself. "Back On The Block" topped the R&B Albums chart at number-one for twelve weeks, and topped the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart as well, while peaking at #9 on the Billboard 200 album chart. "Back On The Block" featured the last studio recordings of jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Fitzgerald and Jones had previously worked together on her 1963 album with Count Basie, "Ella And Basie!", and Jones had produced three albums with Sarah Vaughan when they both worked for Mercury Records. At the 33rd Grammy Awards held on February 20, 1991, "Back On The Block" won seven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In arranging, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince and Rod Temperton won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for "Birdland". Jones also won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance for "Birdland", and the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, winning 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album "Thriller" by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song "We Are The World". He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African-American, each of them having seven nominations. This channel is dedicated to the classic jazz music you've loved for years. The smokin' hot, icy cool jams that still make you tap your feet whenever you hear them . . . Cool Jazz is here!

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