| This Is How I Feel About Jazz | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Quincy Jones |
| Cover: | This Is How I Feel About Jazz.jpeg |
| Released: | February 1957,[1] CD: 1992 |
| Recorded: | September 14, 19 and 29, 1956; February 25, 1957 |
| Studio: | Beltone Recording Studios, New York City; Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 36:32 |
| Label: | LP: ABC-Paramount CD: Impulse!/GRP |
| Producer: | Creed Taylor Quincy Jones (CD bonus tracks) |
| Prev Title: | Jazz Abroad |
| Prev Year: | 1955 |
| Next Title: | Go West, Man! |
| Next Year: | 1957 |
This Is How I Feel About Jazz is a 1957 album by American musician Quincy Jones, his first full-length album as a bandleader after a recording debut with the 1955 split album Jazz Abroad.
Jones arranged and conducted three recording sessions during September 1956, each with a different line-up, from a nonet to a fifteen piece big band. Musicians on the album include Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson, Art Pepper, Zoot Sims, and Herbie Mann. The bonus tracks on the CD release include compositions by Jimmy Giuffre, Lennie Niehaus and Charlie Mariano.
The album was produced by Creed Taylor and released by ABC-Paramount. The digital reissue on CD in 1992 was repackaged with the label Impulse!, ABCs sub-label for contemporary jazz established by Taylor four years after these sessions took place. The Impulse! version has a cover similar to the original but with the Impulse! logo.
Additional tracks on CD release (1992) from Go West, Man!
Tracks 1-2, session from September 29, 1956
Tracks 3-4, session from September 14, 1956
Tracks 5-6, session from September 19, 1956
Added tracks 7–12, session from February 25, 1957