Top R&B And Rap Stars Honoring Quincy Jones With Tribute CD
Some of today’s biggest recording artists and producers, including John Legend, Robin Thicke and Jennifer Hudson, will celebrate the music of multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones. They are recording contemporary versions of popular recordings from Jones’ catalog for a new CD from Interscope Records titled Q: Soul Bossa Nostra. The CD is scheduled to be released in May or June.
Jones is producing the CD, which will compile songs selected by the artists themselves. Those other artists include BeBe Winans, Usher, Ludacris, Akon, Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia and Jermaine Dupri, among others.
Highlights include Legend with “Tomorrow”; Hudson with “You Put A Move On My Heart”; Ludacris and Naturally 7 on the title track “Soul Bossa Nostra,” a hip-hop revamp of Jones’ 1962 single “Soul Bossa Nova,” which was re-born as the Austin Powers theme song; and Thicke, Usher, LL Cool J, Trey Songz, Tyrese, and Tevin Campbell with the late Barry White’s original vocals on “Secret Garden.” In addition, vocalist Jamie Foxx will redo the Grammy Award-winning classic “Give Me The Night,” originally recorded in 1980 by Jones, Rod Temperton and George Benson, and Thicke and T-Pain will remake Michael Jackson, James Ingram and Jones’ Grammy nominated “P.Y.T.”
A 27-time Grammy Award winner and the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 79 nominations, Jones’ career has spanned six decades and encompassed the roles of composer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, record producer, record executive, film and television producer, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian.