Quincy Jones - There's A Train Leavin' (1976) Q-Funk soul funk B-side masterpiece feat Louis Johnson

Quincy Jones co-wrote and produced the little known, phenomenal gospel-flavored funk soul jam There's A Train Leavin' for his 1976 I Heard That!! double album. Quincy's co-writer was gospel singer/songwriter Charles May and it featured Louis "Thunder Thumbs" Johnson on bass. It was also released two years later as the B-side to Q's #1 R&B hit single Stuff Like That (1978).

I Heard That!! was arguably Quincy's masterpiece solo LP, although it didn’t sell particularly well, peaking at #16 R&B. It did top the jazz album charts.

The double album's all-star lineup included guest appearances by some of the greatest soul, funk and jazz musicians of the 70s, like Stevie Wonder, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, David T. Walker, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, Stanley Clarke, Alphonso "Slim" Johnson, Billy Cobham, Harvey Mason, James Gadson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Jim Gilstrap, Al Jarreau, the Stairsteps aka the Five Stairsteps, and Minnie Riperton.

Additional vocalists on the LP included Barbara Massey, Bill Withers, Bruce Fisher, Carol Willis, Don Elliott, George Johnson, Hilda Harris, Jesse Kirkland, Joe Greene, Leon Ware, Maeretha Stewart, Marilyn Jackson, Myrna Matthews, and Valerie Simpson.

Quincy Jones (born March 14, 1933) is a legendary musical genius, a multi-talented producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, bandleader, and musician. He has won 28 Grammys over the course of his long career, and produced Michael Jackson's three biggest selling albums Off The Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). Among his many firsts, he was the first Black artist to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, after his groundbreaking work on In Cold Blood (1967). He composed the score in real time while the film was in production, writing new music nightly to accompany the film footage shot that day.

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