Rules Free Radio Nov 5 2024

On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, the entire show is a tribute to the late Quincy Jones. He’s one of the most important figures in music with a career that spanned well over half a century. He was a trumpeter, composer, arranger, conductor, and producer who put out many albums of his own and worked with a who’s who of musicians going back to the 1950s. He’s worked with everyone from Jazz artists like Miles Davis, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, and Art Farmer, to vocalists including Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Billy Eckstine, among others. In the third hour, we’ll focus on a lot of those earlier Jazz collaborations. His own albums in the late ‘60s and ‘70s meld contemporary R&B with Jazz. He worked on a lot of movie soundtracks including In The Heat of the Night and The Color Purple. He worked with a wide range of pop artists including teen girl singer Lesley Gore, Donna Summer, Billy Preston, Little Richard, into the hip hop era. And of course, he collaborated with Michael Jackson to produce best selling album of all time, Thriller.

Michael Jackson – Beat It

Quincy Jones – Soul Saga (Song of the Buffalo Soldier)

Little Richard – Money Runner/Money Is

Donna Summer – Mystery Of Love

Billy Preston – Outa-Space

Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

Brothers Johnson- Get The Funk Out Ma Face

Qunicy Jones w/ Ice-T, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Mo Dee – Back on the Block

Lesley Gore – It’s My Party

Boomer & Travis – Foul Owl (On The Prowl)

Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me

Manos Hadjidakis – The Concerto

Brothers Johnson – Strawberry Letter 23

Donny Hathaway & Margie Joseph – Come Back, Charleston Blue

Quincy Jones – Body Heat

Quincy Jones – Walking In Space

King Pleasure – I’m Gone

Quincy jones –  Killer Joe

Ray Charles – Moanin’

Peggy Lee & Benny Carter – As Time Goes By

Quincy Jones – Boy in the Tree

Dinah Washington – Is You is or is You Ain’t My Baby

Billy Eckstine – Caravan (Duke)

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie – I Wish You Love

Clifford Brown & Art Farmer with The Swedish All-Stars – Stockholm Sweetnin’

Oscar Pettiford – Swingin’ till the Girls Come Home

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie – Fly Me to the Moon

Sonny Stitt – Love Walked In

The Art Farmer Septet – Up In Quincy’s Room

Ella Fitzgerald – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Big Maybelle – Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra – Kingfish

Milt Jackson – Boogity Boogity

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones – Springsville

Cannonball Adderley – Rose Room

Dinah Washington – I Get A Kick Out Of You

Betty Carter & Ray Bryant – What Is This Thing Called Love

Betty Carter & Ray Bryant – Gone With the Wind

Quincy Jones – Everything Must Change