Quincy Jones "Killer Joe"

[professorbrooks3]

1963 Greenlawn, Long Island, NY  Carl Ward's GreenLawn Lounge

Listening to Art Farmer Blow Killer Joe, a Benny Golson's Tune

[csan01]

ive listened to this since i was a kid the big brass band always facinated me but when i heard Quincy and his band as a child i fell in love and this was def one of my favorites on my favorite album, im 42 now and still love it just the same... long live Q.

[darkwoods9999]

thumbs up if you played this in you schools jazz band

[Sibonsax]

If there is a better version. please let me know. I usually prefer saxophone tunes, but the brass penetrates the air so great in this and it's so tight that i don't think there is much better out there. This was the theme song on the great Charlotte FM jazz station (now defunct) for years; anybody out there in the southland remember?

[mychemcutie723]

we just started playing this song in my schools jazz band and ohmygod i love it so much.

[bsdguy]

One of my favorite bass lines. Ray "killed" it.

[gravylegs6t9]

RAVENISKCROW.. ummmmmm r u crazy?? thats Ray Brown holding it down on the bass!

[est61409]

This is pure and simply the best.

[TheMaskedJohnson]

Quincy Jones was a master. Long live Quincy!

[cakeandthewine]

A musical legend!

Cool Joe, Mean Joe, cool joe, mean joe.

Mr. Quincy Jones!!!!...nuff said!

[dal4018]

@cakeandthewine AMEN TO THAT Q RULES

[emhaz73]

This song is FN bang n, u r nuts if u do not like this one!!! Party babe!!!! work it!!! the flute is talk n babe!!!! If u want a dead party 2 come alive, play this 1. we wore it out when this came out! Partying was better like the music years ago!! I miss those days!!!

[raveniskcrow]

I know all of these "cats" are great, but put another bassist on this session and this tune would be great, but not immortal. Ray Brown rocks this party. To me, he was the Killer Joe.

[raveniskcrow]

I know all of these "cats" are great, but put another bassist on this session and this tune would be great, but not immortal.

[dogman15]

This is just classic.

[FinalAeonBoss]

this is the cool quincy jones..yeah

[ianboelts]

this song is soo sick

[lolKbgTgm6621what]

Well, it's about time to close . . . I hope you've had as much fun as we have. Don't forget the jam session Sunday . . . Mandy Tension will be by, playing his xylophone troupe. It's really been a lot of fun. I hope we've played your requests . . . the songs you like to hear . . . Last call for alcohol! Drink it up, folks. Caravan (with a drum sola)? Right. Yeah . . . we'll do that. Wonnerful. Nice to see you again. Yeah.

Great song, but Quincy Jones rips the backbone right out of it. Awful.

[solemandd67]

Classic Jazz '69! This is the musical definition of Cool.

[HojoAmasuke]

@solemandd67 Dodge Charger '69 R/T! This is the mechanical definition of Cool.

[solemandd67]

Classic Jazz '69! This is the mucical definition of Cool.

[pensilver51]

...mean joe,..cool joe... Ouch!!! this be a slammin' mamma jamma!!!

[cjsanigga]

I remember playing this in my middle school jazz band. I kept trying to make it smoother and smoother. But my teacher tried to play it by the book. And, this is just exactly what he's missing out on.

[mostech09]

My 1st public solo was Freddie Hubbard's trumpet solo on this track.

It brings back memories (couldn't get that run on the 20-24th measures)

of being 14 and my introduction to a beautiful art by a master craftsman.

May God continue bless Mr. Jones.

[hemp503]

fond memories of early 70's jamaica,queenns ,ny with my aunt verna and remy martin

[emhaz73]

LOve love love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jarbon5]

This song is magnificent!

[ApolloAlive]

Is this about joe jackson?

[richardmbowman]

Yeeeeesssssss! Q! Yeeesssss!

[IcebergSlim1978]

Heard this on Tremé the other day. That show plays some great song!

[yomamacentmehere]

2 stupid dogs?

[MrTylermclean1]

the master at his best!!!! yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss!!!­!!!!!

[dal4018]

@MrTylermclean1 There are 4 IDIOTS THAT DON'T KNOW WHAT GOOD MUSIC IS

[SuperNintendoDuty]

Thumbs up if you clicked the expand button on the video just so you dont see the "Scary Maze Game" picture

[mikronot]

@SuperNintendoDuty i still see it :S

[trisnjok]

@SuperNintendoDuty where is the scary maze picture?

[RockinReeseBoyd]

One bad tune! - Mike

[CBLA777]

Yesssssssssssssssss!



[Nighthawk5210]

One of the first songs I ever remember hearing as a kid and it left a big impression on me.

"Hurt me slow...please Joe"....

[wiseroldfart]

His best album ever. I've had the LP since the early 70's. Also listen to 'Walking in Space.'

[madcat6073]

PLAY BABY PLAY ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD

[Rachman1337]

Great tune.

[renee6628]

Fall......NYC..village vanguard

[KBallenger53]

You can't get any Cooler than this!!!

'NUFF SAID

[emmettk]

The coolest song on the planet.

[peggie50]

I always knew he was deep but the talent just owess from his pores like sweat .... this is brillence that we take foe granted and xuces the spelling

[59cadcoupe]

A Classic ~ always a pleasure to hear it !

[judenihal]

3:23 - who is that pretty girl?

[vitaboy64]

My mother played this over and over. R.I.P mom. Went home May of 1975. this brings back go times.

[ManOwarIdk]

this song is so kickass lol!

[flamer4448]

I love this song :D Its so awesome. I may not know much about instruments and stuff but I gotta say... That flute player is good.

[lordueno37]

Who's that playing the flute? Man that cat has mad skills.

[iamadog]

@lordueno37 Hubert Laws ... one of many all-stars  on this album ... look up credits at allmusic.com

[WSenator1]

Who the HELL is that with Q and President Clinton at 3:20? Lord, is she fine!

[DanielMcDrtcomposer]

@WSenator1 dunno, bet you Bill is thinking the same.

[judenihal]

@WSenator1 I have that same question. I first thought that was Hilary Clinton but she looks nothing cute compared to that girl.

[oxford172]

Quincy is a living legend, it's astonishing how much he has accomplished! A true musician in every sense of the word.

[pooperscoopr69]

mjramsden13

The most accomplished jazz flautist in the history of the music was ERIC DOLPHY.

Do your homework, junior.

[bmorerich89]

@pooperscoopr69 Bon'y forget Herbie Mann

[jimraw1]

@pooperscoopr69 I would also put Herbie Mann in that discussion 

[charleybnest]

Hoorde deze schitterende muziek toen ik 17 jaar oud was ( nu 40 jaar geleden), op een transistorradio, duurde jaren voordat ik wist welke tune het was. Nog steeds mooie bijna klassieke jazz in optima forma, cool and alive! Thansk you Quincy

Charleybnest

[mjramsden13]

superb! Love Quincy's new funk rap version too, which also has Hubert Laws, surely the most adept jazz flautist ever.

[YardRat46]

The sound of Q ...

It's like martini for the ears ... :)

[dal4018]

HEY ALL OF YOU THIS MAN WILL HAVE A NEW CD OUT VERY SOON Q SOUL MAN BOSSA NOSTRA GO GET IT WHEN IT COMES OUT!!!!

[WSenator1]

God Bless JAZZ!

[nivrin13]

with you man!

down with pop music, and commercial "shitty" garbage music

All hail good music, and hapiness

[incognito1951]

Hubert Laws plays flute!

[dal4018]

@incognito1951 Thanks Incognito great minds think alike

[SuperNintendoDuty]

2 people dislike this???

thats fucking insane!!!!!!!!!

who the fuck would not like this??!!!

its jazz!!!!!!!!!

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty They were probably fans of Lady Vomit *cough* excuse me Lady Gaga

[SuperNintendoDuty]

@dal4018

hahahahaha lmfao!!!!!!!

lady vomit lol!!!!

lady gaga sucks anyway, so why should there be fans of her anyway??!!

lol!!!!

lady vomit xD

thats a good one because shes more like lady vomit.

xD xD xD XD XD XD

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty Yes that's my official name for her she's got no talent

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty Hey Ninetendo Quincy has a new CD out it came out on the 9th GET IT WHILE ITS HOT AND CHECK THIS OUT LADY VOMIT IS A FEATURED ARTIST MAYBE HE CAN PERFORM A MIRACLE AND MAKE HER SOUND LIKE A ACTUAL SINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SuperNintendoDuty]

@dal4018

TRUE TRUE....

I WILL get it

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty Hey Nintendo HOLD UP ON GETTING Q'S NEWEST CD ITS NOT EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ITS ON YOUTUBE CHECK OUT "GIVE ME THE NIGHT" FEATURING JAMIE FOXX AND "ITS MY PARTY" FEATURING AMY WINEHOUSE GOOD ARTIST JUST THE WRONG ONES SINGING THESE SONGS

[SuperNintendoDuty]

@dal4018

Oh dang...........The wrong ones singing the songs???

Tell me who they are please.

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty Jamie Foxx singing "Give Me The Night" and Amy Winehouse "Its My Party"

[dal4018]

@SuperNintendoDuty Happily I spoke way too soon I thought Lady Vomit was a featured artist on Q's new CD but THE SHE HULK isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[therealraybaby]

Mr. Q. U r an extraordinary remarkable gentleman! :-)

[SergenteYork]

Splendido reportage del classico standard Jazz del1947.

[WSenator1]

During Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" era, his band would play "Killer Joe" after the station would come out of its last commercial for the night.

[grantmg]

a classic and standard

[OpenComments]

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[themranonemus]

@OpenComments lol. L. Ron. Hubbard went a little too far in his "make a religion" bet.

I mean... this is hilarious.

[akbb1234567890]

whose the flute player?

[dal4018]

@akbb1234567890 I think the flute player was a young Hubert Laws

[metroid885]

SIMCITY SONG! woot

[JohnLewisBartee]

The Composer for this tune, the original melody came from the imagination & artistry of Benny Golson. As for the title, "Killer Joe", back in the days when musicians jammed if one of them came up with a great rift or melody their fellow musicians would say, "That's a Killer Joe". Benny Golson's original melody can truly be referred to as a Killer Joe.

I had a "Killer Joe" recorded a decade before in 1947. In 1949 it was re-named "No Noise" & recorded by Charlie Parker & Flip Phillips

[harveyd100]

the song is about joe louis

[willardlockejr]

Love the photos of Quincy through the years. He has worked with the best and still going strong at the age of 77.

[niahu11]

killer JOE was a romanian guy from MAFIA ...... was the badest guy ever seen US.

[dal4018]

@niahu11 No he wasn't Quincy Jones said Killer Joe was a creation a mythical mack figure from Chicago.

[go2class]

yarch to the masses real jazz still exists this is timeless though..check out Jules Born Lafayette Milkyway ELectro jazz or Sa-Ra

[spadge1able]

easy going tune & cool sounds

[spadge1able]

captivating & easy flowing tune + really cool.

[Rambizzyfbaby]

In elementary school we learned this song. Now that im older I can appreciate it. Lovely ! lets GO WWC,, Walker Wildcat here !

[Rambizzyfbaby]

In elementary school we learned this song. Now that im older I can appreciate it. Lovely !

[societytravels]

Awesome song and pics of Quincy. It's cool to see how we as people age whe we see pictures. Great post. Thank you I enjoyed this alot.

[dal4018]

Yes thanks Willard about Ray Brown he's considered one the pre-eminent bass players of all time.

[sandythebear]

I played this piece for jazz band a few years back, nice tune.

[rickytheaxe]

Play that flute Bruh!

[adem1000000]

FOLLOW THIS UP WITH SOME LES MCANN "SWISS MOVEMENT" AND YOU'LL GET SOME.

[MadSkeletonnnnnnnnnn]

pretty cool i remember the school band i was in played this

[dal4018]

LONG LIVE THE MAN KNOWN SIMPLY KNOWN AS "Q"

[willardlockejr]

@dal4018  And this was the same Ray Brown that was a major influence on singer/pianist Diana Krall, who is doing quite nicely these days.

[slyrahh2k7]

This is what i listen too when i need my instrumental fix.

[lowendfella]

@slyrahh2k7 It's a great soul energizer.

[WSenator1]

I've been trying find this on YouTube, and now here it is.  I've always loved this song - it's a "killer" of a piece (pun intended). Thanx!

[peepholeProd]

Exactly what I think: this is so dawn good - unbelievable !!! Why listening to todays music ? This is so much better !

Btw the Fender Rhodes keyboard must be a Silver Top one - sounds so funky and fuzzy.

[larssondj]

@peepholeProd It's Paul Griffin, playing a Wurlitzer electric piano

[leokasper7107]

@peepholeProd right on, man!

[MotherOf666]

@peepholeProd It's called evolution. Shit happens, likewise.

[jaylynbob]

I must say one thing,this was made in 1969.Freddie Hubbard was on the horn.Also on this album was Val Simpson from Ashford & Simpson.This was a bad ass LP!!! Matter in fact this is on my facebook.Also a partner of mine gave me about 4 or 5 Lonnie Liston Smith LP'S to put on CD for him.Lonnie was a Mother...........

[swt32567]

Classic Progressive Jazz from 1971! ! ! Kudos to the Master Quincy Jones.He never sold out like so many of the others do. Viva El Maestro Senor Quincy Jones ! ! ! !

[kabukishuffle]

J.L Hudson, Detroit, Mi record department 11th floor.

[Southwind25]

heard this for the first time about 30 years ago...i have been whistling it ever since...love this. back in the day, i played trumpet in school...it inspired me

[brownsuga1991]

i <3 jazz!

[BakaBoys303]

i'm in highschool, and i'm playing this for a jazz festival with 8 other people, including rhythm section, but when we first performed it for a big audience all the Older audience were yelling in excitement, and all the younger generations were scratching there heads in confusion as to what Joe had Killed lol. :) love this song!

[9876543217303]

Find a number more cool than this, let me know. This personifies all the things a kid wants to be back in the day when it was blasting from a nearby cabaret or 'Show Lounge' as we used to call them. Clean, smooth. Quincy was always a master.....thanks for taking me back

[SuperNintendoDuty]

@vstamilodok

heyy thats not actually a bad idea.

[izlude2]

I remember this from the 70s....it made me fall madly in love with jazz,,,,this piece is CLASSY!,,, the arrangement is unbelievable...Quincy ,,,you are a living Legand!

[wolfeman0]

what a bamf!

[like1omfg9its9stephy]

my marching band played this song. only it was a sousaphone feature.

[dal4018]

@like1omfg9its9stephy hey steph consider yourself very lucky

[like1omfg9its9stephy]

@dal4018 i do, very much so. much more considering i am a sousaphone. it was my favorite song this year.

[dal4018]

Hey Steph put your self on youtube I want to see how you sound playing a sousaphone just curious!!!!!!!!

[dal4018]

Hey Steph you last sunday was Q's 77th birthday he was born on 3-14-33

[dal4018]

Hey Steph put this in your memory bank this legend just a birthday last sunday 3-14-33 he's 77 yrs young!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheCalebson]

this reminds me so much of my childhood. My father used to play this song when I was 7 or something like that. Great song.

[dal4018]

Cale for years I used to hear this song on the radio(NY radio stations)I 'am from NJ but never knew the title.Now this song is permantly etched in my memory banks.BET made him the '08 Humanitarian Award Recipient

[zq9m3xh8]

Killer Joe was first recorded (I believe) on the 1960 album MEET THE JAZZTET, with Art Farmer and Benny Golson. It is the last track on that album, an excellent version.

[dal4018]

Hey Nako I think a full length feature film should be made about this living legend who would play the leading role?????????

[nakohead415]

good idea!! How about Denzel Washington?

[nakohead415]

or Jamie Fox?

[dal4018]

@nakohead415 I was thinking more along the lines of a unknown like Hill Harper from the show CSI:NY he looks like a young version of Quincy and of course Jamie would reprise his Oscar winning role as his late great friend Ray Charles.

[nakohead415]

This song was originally written by Benny Golson. In 1977 Golson released an album called Killer Joe with a tigh version of his song, called The New Killer Joe. Ted Lange (yes from the Love Boat) does an opening narrative (rap) to this version. Worth a listen if you can find it. I've got it on vinyl.

[dal4018]

@nakohead415 yes Nako do you know when he did his version before Quincy???????

[nakohead415]

I know he wrote it but I've never heard his original version, if any. The only one I've heard by Golson is the New Killer Joe, 1977.

[jaylynbob]

Yeah this is cool jazz.Most of the people i know can't even get into this .Too me this is very sad.They like that Kenny G crap!! That ain't jazz at all!!!!My music collection is basically 80% jazz.

[MikeIdy6000]

You're so right - all the "Jazz" stations are playing elevator music these days

[n8galicia]

@MikeIdy6000

"muzak" lolol

[LibraClassic]

@MikeIdy6000

Yeah, what IS that crap?? I blame Kim Waters.

[igessthsisgrwnup]

@MikeIdy6000

for real all these old farts are forgetting the greats

[willardlockejr]

@jaylynbob most of my friends can't even get into this either. If it's not Kenny G or some of the other stuff that they call "jazz", their not interested. This is true jazz that will outlast all the other stuff that is being played on the radio these days. IAnd I love the trumpet solo and the upright bass (is that Ray Brown?).

[dal4018]

@willardlockejr YES THAT IS THE LEGENDARY RAY BROWN ON BASS AND EVERYONE SAID HE WAS WAS AT HIS BEST!!!!!!!!

[dal4018]

@jaylynbob bob who else do you like besides Q????????????

[peepholeProd]

@dal4018

In my oppionion the only one that does come close to this is Lalo Schifrin. Listen to "Bullit" soundtrack f.e.

[dal4018]

@peepholeProd Really Prod u think Bullit soundtrack is the equal wow!!!!!!

[peepholeProd]

@dal4018 In the spot of graphic quality. they do both "music painting".

[jaylynbob]

Smooth,smooth,smooth!!!!! When I hear this cut all I do is think of me.LOL

[mefilmmaking]

YOU ARE A MIND READER.lol. I too think of myself... it's quite alright we share the same feeling. Happy New Year

[mefilmmaking]

Thanks for the post. much appreciated.

[nakohead415]

Isn't that Freddie Hubbard on trumpet in this particular track?

[dal4018]

hey Nako yes that's Freddie on trumpet.

[hyperboy174601]

good

[janjoop1]

In one word "TIMELESS"

Thanks Q

[ThePatula1]

Got to make The Coolest List with this one

[BluesRockRevival]

its hard to find a good version of this track, this qualifies.

[dal4018]

GO Q U RULE 4EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YemSom]

What a fantastic trak! I really love it.  Thanks for posting it.

[LonesomeSuzie]

WoW!Thanks my friend for post it! Great!

[Zandi5]

Jones was such a handsome man when he was younger. Nice pics by the way and thanks for posting this classic compositon!!