Thursday, March 01, 2007


















Quincy Jones: It's Caper Time [1969]
Quincy Jones: Something's Cookin' [1969]

I am digging the bass work in the short Something's Cookin'. Here are two gems from Quincy Jones' work for the Italian Job, a movie which was the inspiration for one of the worst movie remakes of all time.

I'd be psyched if someone could explain new blogger to me. It takes me 8 attempts on every post to get the spacing right. Freakin' blogger.

Buy the soundtrack here.

4 comments:

Colonel Knowledge said...

Thanks for the tunes. Dashed good stuff.

You are correct, this new blogger thing is a shithead and hates paragraphs.

All the best.

Anonymous said...

My son has been a huge fan of the Michael Caine original since he was three years old, and he used to do a mean Matt Monro impersonation. He hated the remake too.

Something's Cookin' is very, very cool indeed. It just struck me what a huge debt Air have to Quincy Jones.
Nice post, Mike.

Mike said...

ib, nice call on Air... I hadn't previously heard it, but the resemblance is strong on Something's Cookin'.

And your kid son sounds Sesame Street deprived.

Thanks for the comments! They're appreciated.

Anonymous said...

Sesame Street deprived ? Oh yes, for sure. It's something of a sore point that that particular programme is no longer offered as a free televisual service here in Old Blighty ; however, did i mention that he also regards George A. romero's "Dawn of the Dead" as a celluloid masterpiece ?

Over the years, Mr. Savini's comic creations have certainly served well as a splendid phonetics teaching aid.