Back on the Block

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Back on the Block
Back on the Block cover
Studio album by Quincy Jones
Released 1989
Recorded 1989
Genre Jazz
Length 57:54
Label Qwest Records
Producer(s) Quincy Jones
Professional reviews
Quincy Jones chronology
The Dude
(1980)		 Back on the Block
(1989)		 Q's Jook Joint
(1994)


Back on the Block is a 1989 (see 1989 in music) studio album produced by the American jazz and pop arranger Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Ice-T and Ray Charles.

Ella had previously recorded with Jones on her 1963 album Ella and Basie!, which is revered as one of her greatest recordings. Ella is featured on the tracks Jazz Corner of the World (where she is introduced in rap style by Big Daddy Kane), Birdland and Wee B. Dooinit, where she scats alongside Sarah Vaughan and Bobby McFerrin.

Had this album been made a quarter of a century earlier, featuring only the trumpets of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, the vocals of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, with arrangements by Quincy Jones, it would still stand today as surely one of the greatest and most intriguing jazz albums ever made.

By 1989 however, these great jazz artists were well past their respective physical and creative peaks, and their performances on this otherwise exhilarating album merely highlight their respective ages. This was to be the last studio recording that Ella Fitzgerald made, a milestone not lost on her biographer Stuart Nicholson, who noted that Ella had come full circle with this album, her last recording echoing the throwaway pop hits that Norman Granz had promised to rescue her from when he created Verve. It was also Sarah Vaughans last album.

Multiple singles were lifted from the album and found success on Pop and R&B radio, including I'll Be Good To You, The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite), and Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me). Tomorrow is noteworthy for introducing a young Tevin Campbell to the music scene.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Prologue (2Q's Rap)" (Big Daddy Kane, Quincy Jones) – 1:04
  2. "Back on the Block" (Big Daddy Kane, Siedah Garrett, Ice-T, Quincy Jones, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Caiphus Semenya, Rod Temperton) – 6:34
  3. "I Don't Go for That" (Ian Prince) – 5:11
  4. "I'll Be Good to You" (George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Sonora Sam) – 4:54
  5. "The Verb to Be (Introduction to Wee B. Dooinit)" (Mervyn Warren) – 0:29
  6. "Wee B. Dooinit (Acapella Party by the Human Bean Band)" (Siedah Garrett, Quincy Jones, Prince) – 3:34
  7. "The Places You Find Love" (Glen Ballard, Clif Magness, Caiphus Semenya) – 6:25
  8. "Jazz Corner of the World (Introduction to Birdland)" (Big Daddy Kane, Quincy Jones, Kool Moe Dee) – 2:54
  9. "Birdland" (Joe Zawinul) – 5:33
  10. "Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)" (Ivan Lins, Gilson Peranzzetta) – 5:05
  11. "One Man Woman" (Siedah Garrett, Ian Prince, Harriet Roberts) – 3:44
  12. "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" (Siedah Garrett, George Johnson, Louis Johnson) – 4:46
  13. "Prelude to the Garden" (Jorge Calandrelli) – 0:54
  14. "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" (El DeBarge, Siedah Garrett, Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton) – 6:41

[edit] Credits

Recorded in 1989, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:

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