Golden Boy is an album by Quincy Jones which was released by Mercury in 1964.Matsubayashi, K. Mercury Records Collection: Mercury 20000 Series B (60900-60999)Henry, C. B., Quincy Jones: His Life in Music, University Press of Mississippi, 2013 pg. 55 The album includes three versions of the theme from the musical Golden Boy with three original compositions and jazz versions of pop hits.
Reception
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "This Quincy Jones big-band LP finds him exploring a wide variety of material in hopes of finding a hit. ... There are some spots for trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Joe Newman, altoist Phil Woods, guitarist Jim Hall, and the tough tenor of Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, but the brevity of the selections (all but 'Django' are between two and four minutes) and the conservative nature of many of the charts keep the music from taking any real chances".
Track listing "Theme from Golden Boy" [String Version] (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 2:47 "The Witching Hour" – 3:40 "Seaweed" – 2:24 "Golden Boy" (Strouse, Adams) – 3:10 "Django" (John Lewis) – 4:58 "Soul Serenade" (Curtis Ousley, Luther Dixon) – 3:44 "Theme From Golden Boy" [Big Band Version] (Strouse, Adams) – 3:54 "Hard Day's Night" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:24 "The Sidewinder" (Lee Morgan) – 3:40 "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Jones, Henri Salvador, Dorcas Cochran) – 3:08
Personnel Performance Quincy Jones – arranger, conductor with orchestra including: Freddie Hubbard, Joe Newman, Johnny Frosk, Dick Hurwitz − trumpet Al Grey, Billy Byers, Paul Faulise, Quentin Jackson, Bill Watrous − trombone James Buffington, Morris Secon − French horn Jerome Richardson − flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Phil Woods − alto saxophone Frank Foster − tenor saxophone, flute Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis − tenor saxophone George Dessinger, Stan Webb − tenor saxophone, clarinet Billy Slapin − clarinet, flute Cecil Payne − baritone saxophone Jim Hall − guitar Margaret Ross − harp Bobby Scott − piano Don Elliott − vibraphone, marimba, vocals Art Davis, Bob Cranshaw, Milt Hinton − bass Ed Shaughnessy, Grady Tate − drums Al Brown, Archie Levin, Charles McCracken, David Mankovitz, David Schwartz, George Ricci, Harold Coletta, Harry Lookofsky, Julien Barber, Karen Tuttle, Kermit Moore, Maurice Bialkin, Selwart Clarke, Ted Israel – string section
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