As an icon of popular music, Quincy Jones would be an honor for anyone to work with. So imagine how 29 artists - including Akon, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse - must have felt when they got the chance to work with Mr. Jones on the remakes of his album Soul Bossa Nova, cunningly renamed Soul Bossa Nostra.
You can hear the remake of "Sanford and Son," above featuring the talents of T.I., B.o.B., Prince Charlez and Mohombi. Mind blown yet? If not, you should check out the track list:
Ironside (Feat. Talib Kweli)
Strawberry Letter 23 (Feat. Akon)
Soul Bossa Nostra (Feat. Ludacris, Naturally 7, & Rudy Currence)
Give Me The Night (Feat. Jamie Foxx)
Tomorrow (Feat. John Legend)
You Put a Move on My Heart (Feat. Jennifer Hudson)
Get The Funk Out Of My Face (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
The Secret Garden (Feat. Usher, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, Barry White, Tyrese and Tevin Campbell)
Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me (Feat. Mary J. Blige, Q-Tip and Alfredo Rodriguez)
Everything Must Change (Feat. Bebe Winans)
Many Rains Ago (Oluwa) (Feat. Wyclef Jean)
P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing) (Feat. T-Pain & Robin Thicke)
It's My Party (Feat. Amy Winehouse)
Hikky-Burr (Feat. Three 6 Mafia and David Banner)
Sanford and Son (Feat. T.I., B.o.B., Prince Charlez, & Mohombi)
Please, make sure to clean up your brain matter after the mind explosion. Rumored to be released in May or June of 2011, Soul Bossa Nostra is a fantastic integration of older genre styles with the new.
And oh yeah, you can hear the remake of "It's My Party" with Amy Winehouse in this YouTube video. There are so many jokes lurking in that sentence that I can't even begin. At least the photo of the video isn't some horrible tabloid photo of Winehouse having a meltdown.