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Ray Brown and Chuck Rainey (bass), Grady Tate (drums), and keyboardists Bob James and Joe Sample.

By 1971, Quincy Jones was already a Titan of the industry, but Smackwater Jack saw him leaning heavily into the "Cinerama" sound—a grand, cinematic approach to jazz-funk. The album is a melting pot of styles: Quincy Jones - Smackwater Jack 1971 TQMP -FLAC-

If Smackwater Jack teaches us anything, it’s that there is a distinct difference between a "producer" and a "maestro." Released in 1971, this album stands as one of the absolute peaks of Quincy Jones’s career as a recording artist—a bridge between the lush orchestrations of the 1960s and the gritty, groove-centric funk that would define the 1970s. Ray Brown and Chuck Rainey (bass), Grady Tate