I Dig Dancers is an album Quincy Jones that was released by Mercury with performances recorded in Paris and New York City.Mercury Records Catalog accessed October 22, 2015
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.AllMusic listing, accessed October 22, 2015
Track listing "Pleasingly Plump" (Quincy Jones) - 2:15 "G'wan Train" (Patti Bown) - 6:20 "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) - 2:47 "Tone Poem" (Melba Liston) - 3:40 "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) - 2:30 "Chinese Checkers" (David Carr Glover) - 2:41 "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:10 "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador, Dorcas Cochran) - 4:29 "Trouble On My Mind" (Ray Noble) - 2:51 "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Louis Prima, Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes) - 2:32
Bonus tracks on CD reissue: "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 3:50 "Pleasingly Plump" [First Take] (Jones) - 2:29 "G'wan Train" [Short Version] (Bown) - 3:00 "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 2:07 "Blues from Free and Easy" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:00
Personnel Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor Benny Bailey, Freddie Hubbard, Lennie Johnson, Jerry Kail, Clyde Reasinger, Floyd Standifer, Clark Terry - trumpet Wayne Andre, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Åke Persson - trombone Julius Watkins - French horn Joe Lopes, Porter Kilbert, Phil Woods - alto saxophone Budd Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone Patti Bown - piano Les Spann - guitar, flute Buddy Catlett - bass Joe Harris, Stu Martin - drums
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