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Quincy Jones - Ultimate Collection [Fewer Tracks]

Primary Artist
Quincy Jones
Album Title
Ultimate Collection [Fewer Tracks]
Release Date
November 26, 2002 
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Review by William Ruhlmann
In 1974, Quincy Jones, who already had a wide range of musical credits behind him, opted to enter the R&B mainstream by hiring vocalists and overseeing recordings in a commercial vein released under his name. The first of them was Body Heat, which went gold, and Jones followed with a series of records including 1981's million-selling The Dude and the 1990 Album of the Year Grammy-winner Back on the Block. Meanwhile, he switched record labels, leaving A&M for his own Warner-distributed Qwest in the early '80s. Read More