Walking In Space - Quincy Jones

Walking In Space

Walking In Space
Quincy Jones
Arranged and Conducted by Quincy Jones
Produced by Creed Taylor
Cover Photograph by Pete Turner
Album Design by Sam Antupit
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Recorded June 18, 19, 1969
A&M Records STEREO A&M SP 3023

Personnel:
Saxophone / Flute / Reeds
Joel Kaye (1, 2, 3) & Roland Kirk (1, 2, 3)
Tenor Sax Solo "Walking In Space"
Hubert Laws, (1, 2, 3)
Flute Solo "Walking In Space"
Tenor Sax Solo "Love And Peace"
Jerome Richardson (1, 2, 3)
Soprano Sax Solo "I Never Told You"

Bass
Ray Brown (1, 2, 3)
All Electric Bass except "Killer Joe"
Chuck Rainey (3) "Love And Peace"

Guitar
Eric Gale (1, 2, 3) all solos
Toots Thielmans (2)

Piano
Paul Griffin (1)
Bob James (2, 3) Electric Piano

Trumpet / Flugelhorn
John Frosk (2, 3)
Freddie Hubbard (1, 2, 3) all solos;
Trumpet Solo "Walking In Space"
Lloyd Michels (1, 3)
Marvin Stamm (1, 2, 3)
Dick Williams (1)
Snooky Young (2)

Trombone
Jimmy Cleveland (1, 2, 3)
Solo "Walking In Space"
George Jeffers (2)
J. J. Johnson (1, 3)
Norman Pride (3)
Alan Raph (1, 3)
Tony Studd (1, 2, 3)
Kai Winding (2)

Drums
Bernard Purdie (3)
Grady Tate (1, 2)

Harmonica
Toots Thielemans (2)

Vocal
Hilda Harris
Marilyn Jackson
Valerie Simpson
Solo "Walking In Space"
Maretha Stewart

Freddie Hubbard, Roland Kirk, Hubert Laws appear through the courtesy of Atlantic Records.
Grady Tate appears through the courtesy of Skye Records

From the inside cover: Viewing the ridiculously vast musical output of filmscore composer/big band arranger Quincy Jones, one might conclude that there are many Quincy Joneses. The fact that Quincy Jones the filmscorer is the same man who: played trumpet as a kid, started as an arranger with two chart for an Oscar Pettiford album, studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, took a job with Barclay Disques in Paris in order to study classical composition with the venerable Nadia Boulanger, interrupted his love affair with New York City several times to take up with Europe, touring with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, and finally his own band, piling up awards all over Europe. This very same Quincy later spent several years as a vice-president of a large record company.

Through all these lifetimes, Quincy Jones wrote. He wrote albums, TV shows, you name it, and more albums. It's hard to think of a singer who, at one time or another, hasn't had Quincy Jones' arrangements to fall back on.

After his executive fling came films. It started slow. "'The Pawn Broker' was my first shot – discounting a Swedish film that was too weird to get released here – and the second was 'Mirage.'" After that, films started flooding in and the deluge has never stopped. Quincy's scores are full of blues. Hollywood no longer panics.

Dead Walking
Walking In Spance
Killer Joe
Love And Peace (Arranged by Bob James)
I Never Told You
Oh Happy Day

(1) June 18, 1969 - Killer Joe
(2) June 19, 1969 - Dead End, Walking In Space - I Never Told You So
(3) June 19, 1969 - Love And Peace - Oh Happy Day