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An enormous commercial success, 1981's THE DUDE is a cross-cultural success blending jazz, Latin music, soul ballads, and straight pop into an admittedly slick but never over-produced or soulless stew. The album opens with a surprise; "Ai No Corrida" is a synthesizer-driven yet still funky Latin dance track written by Chaz Jankel of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, suggesting that unlike a lot of musicians his age, Quincy Jones kept his ears open to new music.
The proto-rap title track accomplishes the same thing. The rest of the album is more conventional, with James Ingram and Patti Austin trading vocals on a smooth collection of tracks highlighted by the masterful love ballads "One Hundred Ways" and "Just Once," staples of adult-contemporary stations, and the haunting Stevie Wonder-penned instrumental "Velas." THE DUDE is an outstanding collection that was massively influential on the '80s R&B scene.
Recorded at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California.
Personnel: Quincy Jones (vocals, trumpet, background vocals); Tom Bahler (vocals, trumpet, background vocals); Lalomie Washburn, Casey Cysik, James Ingram , Jim Gilstrap, Michael Jackson, Patti Austin, Syreeta Wright, Yvonne Lewis (vocals, background vocals); Charles May (vocals); Toots Thielemans (guitar, harmonica); Steve Lukather (guitar); Robbie Buchanan (strings, electric piano, keyboards); Ernie Watts, Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams (flute, saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, horns); Chuck Findley (trumpet); Bill Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Herbie Hancock, David Foster (piano, electric piano); Greg Phillinganes (electric piano, synthesizer, hand claps); David "Hawk" Wolinski (Clavinet, keyboards); Stevie Wonder (keyboards, synthesizer); Ian Underwood, Michael Boddicker (synthesizer); John "J.R." Robinson (drums, hand claps); Lenny Castro (hand claps, percussion); Louis Johnson (hand claps); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Recording information: RKM Studios, Brussels, Belgium (1980-1981); Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA (1980-1981).
Arrangers: Jerry Hey; Johnny Mandel; Quincy Jones. Dude Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $1.46) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, R&B, Jazz Instrument, Soul/R&B, Contemporary R&B | | Label | A & M | | Orig Year | 1981 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5701  | | CD Universe Part number | 1094463 | | Catalog number | 3248 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Quincy Jones | | Recording Time | 41 minutes | | Personnel | Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
Greg Phillinganes - electric piano, synthesizer, hand claps
David Foster - piano, electric piano
Jerry Hey - trumpet, horns
Lenny Castro - hand claps, percussion
Steve Lukather - guitar
Larry Williams - flute, saxophone
Larry Williams - flute, saxophone
Louis Johnson - hand claps
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
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Dude Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   Fantastic
I love this album! I was introduced to it a year or two after it's release in 1981 and loved it immediately. This has a real jazz/ laid back r&b sound. I highly recommend it.
Submitted by stephanie (Canberra, Australia)
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 Esteban
The Dude is a winning instruments combination. Really admire to Quincy Jones and his 1981 band with Louis Johnson in bass, all is good in funk world
Submitted by funkest_ (Nuevo León, México)
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 Quincy Jones is a legand
I heard this album when I was 6 years old in 1981. Im 30 yrs old now and this album still gives me the same good feeling. Maybe even a btter feeling now. The music and lyrics, choruses, arangements, vicals, backgrounds and some of the best ever to be recorded. The new artists hav nothing on this album.
Submitted by Jay Al (San Francisco, Ca, USA)
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Hot to trot
as cool and funky now as when I first heard this - Inspired me to create agroup that would do this sort of thing, still trying to get the break, but the music keeps inspiring me
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