I breathe an extra sigh of relief whenever I get around to a Quincy Jones
produced track in a set, because I know without a doubt that the production
will be top notch and the drumming will be tight. That man rocks my world.
> From: icehouse@redshift.com
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:10:30 -0700
> To: olaf@interactivelink.nl
> Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re Re Michael Jackson
>
> I am with you on that! I also use it a lot in my live sets because I
> usually drop a psuedo-disco set somewhere whenever I do parties and the
> attendees are older than 22 which they usually are for me! For all his
> "eccentricities" Michael was certainly at the height of his musical powers
> during that part of his life and Quincy Jones, who I met a couple of years
> ago and talked to about this, regards those 2 albums as some of his best
> work as a producer. the musicianship on "Off the wall" is superb and the
> arrangements are excellent.
>
> leslie/The Power of Sound
>
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> olaf@interactivelink.nl wrote:
>> a month doesn't go by and i listen to off the wall..imho it's a classic
>> album
>>
>> Olaf
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Book <johnbook9@yahoo.com>
>> To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: Michael Jackson
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --- JSFact@aol.com wrote:
>>>> << I will probably lose myself some street cred
>>>> points here by
>>>> mentioning the next one... Michael Jackson - Don't
>>>> Stop Till You Get Enough
>>>> ...isn't this just the perfect disco record? >>
>>>>
>>>> I remember when this was basically "underground"!
>>>> It played fairly unnoticed
>>>> in clubs for a year before people accepted the fact
>>>> that little Michael
>>>> Jackson had grown up, and with the help of Quincy
>>>> Jones had done something
>>>> quite remarkable.
>>>
>>>
>>> When I was living in Honolulu, I remember this album
>>> always being huge. There wasn't a day when I didn't
>>> hear "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", "Off The Wall",
>>> or "Working Day And Night" and "Rock With You" on the
>>> radio.
>>>
>>> p.e.a.c.e.
>>> -John Book
>>>
>>>
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