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{{notability|Music|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Short description|1965 studio album}}
| Name = I/We Had a Ball
{{Infobox album
| Type = studio▼
| Artistname = I/We Had a Ball
| type = studio
| artist = [[Art Blakey]], [[Milt Jackson]], [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[Chet Baker]]
| Cover cover = I We Had a Ball.jpg
| Releasedalt = 1965 =
| Recordedreleased = 1965
| recorded = November 6, 20 & 25, 1964,; <br/>December 9 & 20, 1964; and <br/>May 18, 1965
▲| Type venue = studio
| Studio studio = Various Studios in Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA and New York City
| Genre = [[Jazz]]
| Lengthgenre = [[Jazz]]
| length =
| Label = [[Limelight Records|Limelight]]<br><small>LM 82002/LS 86002</small>
| Producerlabel = [[JackLimelight TracyRecords|Limelight]]
| Chronologyproducer = [[QuincyJack JonesTracy]]
| Last album chronology = ''[[Golden Boy (Quincy Jones album)|Golden Boy]]''<br />(1964)
| prev_title = [[Golden Boy (Quincy Jones album)|Golden Boy]]
| This album = '''I/We Had a Ball'''<br />(1965)
| prev_year = 1964
| Next album next_title = ''[[The Pawnbroker (film)#Musical score and soundtrack|The Pawnbroker]]''<br />(1965)
| next_year = 1965
}}
 
'''''I/We Had a Ball''''' is an album consisting of jazz versions of songs from [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]] and [[Stan Freeman]]'s musical ''[[I Had a Ball]]'' performed by [[Art Blakey]], [[Milt Jackson]], [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Quincy Jones]] and [[Chet Baker]] which was released on theby [[Limelight Records|Limelight]] label in 1965. <ref>Matsubayashi, K. [https://microgroove.jp/name="mercury/LS86002.shtml">{{cite web |title=Mercury Records Collection: Limelight LS-86002: I/We Had A Ball |url=https://microgroove.jp/mercury/LS86002.shtml Various|website=microgroove.jp Artists]]|access-date=13 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Henry">{{cite book |last1=Henry, |first1=C. B. , |title=Quincy Jones: His Life in Music, |date=2013 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi, 2013 pg. |page=55}}</ref>
 
== Track listing ==
All compositions by Jack Lawrence and Stan Freeman
# "I Had a Ball" − 5:00
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===Performance===
'''''Tracks 1, 3 & 5:'''''
*[[Quincy Jones]] – [[Arrangement|arranger]], [[Conducting|conductor]]
*[[Nat Adderley]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], James Nottingham, [[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]] − [[trumpet]]
*[[Curtis Fuller]], [[Melba Liston]] − [[trombone]]
*[[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]], [[Jerry Dodgion]], [[Phil Woods]] − [[alto saxophone]]
*[[Rahsaan Roland Kirk|Roland Kirk]] − [[tenor saxophone]], [[Saxophone#Unusual variantsSaxello|manzello]]
*[[Benny Golson]], [[Lucky Thompson]] − tenor saxophone
*[[Pepper Adams]] − [[baritone saxophone]]
*[[Milt Jackson]] − [[vibraphone]]
*[[Bob Cranshaw]] − [[double bass|bass]]
*[[Art Blakey]] − [[drum kit|drums]]
 
'''''Track 2:'''''
*Dizzy Gillespie − trumpet, [[vocals]]
*James Moody − tenor saxophone, [[flute]]
*[[Kenny Barron]] − [[piano]]
*[[Chris White (bassist)|Chris White]] − bass
*[[Rudy Collins]] − drums
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==References==
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