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Composer, arranger, and producer Quincy Jones was a youthful veteran of pop, jazz, and r&b when he began creating film and television music in the late '60s, and he brought those lessons to bear on vivid, contemporary music that broke from Hollywood's dependence on conventional orchestration. Although not the first film composer to lean heavily on jazz, Jones was unusually versatile in effectively coupling jazz, blues, and soul accents as he did in the brooding, bluesy score for 1968's
In The Heat Of The Night, a detective thriller starring Sidney Poitier, and noteworthy for a terrific main title song featuring Ray Charles. This double package adds the album to the film's sequel, but it's still the
Night you'll want to savor.
--Sam Sutherland
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Music by Quincy Jones Music impresario Quincy Jones, who was recently interviewed for our liner notes, scored both of these classic Sidney Poitier detective films. In The Heat Of The Night (1967) is an Oscar-winning account of a black Philadelphia detective (Poitier) investigating a murder in Mississippi and matching wits with a redneck sheriff (Rod Steiger). Warren Oates and Lee Grant also star. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is the 1970 sequel. The funky, southern soul of In The Heat Of The Night features Ray Charles (who sings the title track), Glen Campbell on banjo, Billy Preston on Organ, Ray Brown on bass, Rahsaan Roland Kirk on flute, and the Raelettes. In The Heat of The Night won 5 Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. The all-instrumental score for They Call Me Mister Tibbs is more jazz and blues flavored than its predecessor.
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