Ray Charles and Chaka Khan won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "I'll Be Good to You". Jones also won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance for "Birdland", and the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.īruce Swedien won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his work on the album. In arranging, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince and Rod Temperton won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for " Birdland", and Glen Ballard, Hey, Jones and Clif Magness won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) for "The Places You Find Love". Jones had produced three albums with Sarah Vaughan when they both worked for Mercury Records.Īt the 33rd Grammy Awards, Back on the Block won seven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Back on the Block topped the R&B Albums chart at number-one for twelve weeks, and topped the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart as well.Įlla Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan īack on the Block featured the last studio recordings of jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.įitzgerald and Jones had previously worked together on her 1963 album with Count Basie, Ella and Basie!. Jones' track, "Setembro (of brazilian composers Gilson Peranzzetta and Ivan Lins)" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1991 film, Boyz n the Hood. Back on the Block won the 1991 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. "Tomorrow" is also noteworthy for introducing a young Tevin Campbell to the music scene. Multiple singles were lifted from the album and found success on Pop and R&B radio, including "I'll Be Good to You", "I Don't Go for That", "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)", and "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" which was originally an instrumental track on the Brothers Johnson's Look Out for #1 set. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Ray Charles and a 12-year-old Tevin Campbell. The album features legendary musicians and singers from across three generations, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Barry White, Chaka Khan, Take 6, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Al B. Back on the Block is a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones.
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