Mercury Records Collection: MG-20444: The Birth Of A Band

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MG-20444: The Birth Of A Band / Quincy Jones

Label Type :	red Mercury/Phonogram type B
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 20444A-PR45 -1-1 PRC MASTERDISK G.K.
	SIDE-B	MG 20444B-PR5 -1-1 PRC MASTERDISK G.K.

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60129 (stereo).

later Phonogram release in the 1970s-1980s?

Inside The Groove

Quincy Jones' debut album on Mercury.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	The Birth Of A Band	2:53
A-2	Moanin'	3:02
A-3	I Remember Clifford	3:42
A-4	Along Came Betty	3:21
A-5	Tickle Toe	2:55
SIDE-B
B-1	Happy Faces	2:40
B-2	Whisper Not	3:22
B-3	The Gypsy	4:05
B-4	A Change Of Pace	3:20
B-5	Tuxedo Junction	2:44

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Quincy Jones (tp, arr, cond) with: Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman, Harry Edition (tp), Phil Woods, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Zoot Sims, Sahib Shibab, Jerome Richardson, Sam Taylor (sax), Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Melba Liston, Quentin Jackson (tb), Frank Wess (fl), Patricia Anne Bown (p), Milt Hinton (b), Sam Woodyard (ds).

Arrangements by Quincy Jones, except A-3 by Nat Pierce, A-5 by Al Cohn, and B-3 by Melba Liston.

Recorded in late 1959.