Back on the Block is a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, Chaka Khan, Take 6, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge and Ray Charles. Back on the Block is a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, Chaka Khan, Take 6, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge and Ray Charles. false 2024-03-14 16:34:34 Back on the Block 10 1989 1989-08-11 1989-08-11 58 Contemporary R&B Hip Hop Jazz R&B Crossover Jazz 114484 2131451 1449b9f9-56c0-4177-92a7-ffcf0d204c16 5803c81e-739a-4057-9a5c-cf84e55db630 1ad5316f-a6b7-31d0-ba33-a5bc767ae3dd /media/data/media4/Music/Quincy Jones/Back on the Block (1989)/folder.jpg Quincy Jones AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/Q/Quincy Jones/folder.jpg Quincy Jones Artist /config/metadata/People/Q/Quincy Jones/folder.jpg Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 1 Prologue (2 Q's rap) 01:04 2 Back on the Block 06:34 3 I Don't Go for That 05:11 4 I'll Be Good to You 04:54 5 The Verb to Be 00:31 6 Wee B. Dooinit 03:31 7 The Places You Find Love 06:27 8 Jazz Corner of the Word 02:53 9 Birdland 05:33 10 Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song) 05:04 11 One Man Woman 03:44 12 Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me) 04:46 13 Prelude to the Garden 00:54 14 The Secret Garden 06:40 Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awards won out of 80 nominations, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between genres, producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. Jones produced three of the most successful albums by pop star Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.