Quincy Jones Page Quincy jones was born on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, but was brought up in with Lionel Hampton s band as a trumpeter, arranger, and sometimepianist. http://www-music.duke.edu/jazz_archive/artists/jones.quincy/jcf3/
Extractions: Quincy Jones was born on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, but was brought up in Seattle. At the age of 12, Jones began to study trumpet and sing in a gospel quartet. He continued to study music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he stayed until he was able to tour with Lionel Hampton's band as a trumpeter, arranger, and sometime-pianist. In 1951, Q moved to New York where he began to make a name for himself as an arranger. By the mid 1950's, Jones was arranging and recording for artists such as Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderly, Billy Eckstein, and LeVern Baker. As Quincy Jones grew older, he began to enlarge his scope as an artist. His career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, and multi-media entrepreneur. He has mixed pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African, and Brazilian music into many awesome compilations, conquering nearly every medium, including records, movies, and television. Jones is celebrating his 50th year performing and being involved in music. Q's work has spanned over six decades, beginning with music of the Be-Bop era and continuing into today's Hip-Hop. As the first black composer to be accepted by Hollywood establishment of the 1960's, he helped to give a new feeling to movie scores with infusions of jazz and soul. His 1989 album
PBS: "Quincy Jones: In The Pocket" Dr. Billy Taylor It was wonderful being house pianist at Birdland, Dr.Billy Taylor Quincy jones really had many opportunities to do things he wanted http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/22/DI20050622005
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'liveonline'; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Live Discussions Print This Article ... E-Mail This Article Top News Live Discussions What is RSS? All RSS Feeds Transcript Dr. Billy Taylor Jazz Musician Thursday, June 23, 2005; 12:00 PM Quincy Jones producer, entertainer, businessman and humanitarian is featured in the PBS film "Quincy Jones: In the pocket," which airs Wednesday, June 22, at 9 p.m. ET (check local listings ). The documentary is part of the " American Masters " series. Narrated by Harry Belafonte and written and directed by Michael Kantor, the film includes interviews with Jones's friends and contemporaries former president Bill Clinton, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey and Sidney Poitier.
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CNS: July 07, 2002: In America, Jazz Gets An Asian Flavor Keiko Matsui, a Japanese pianist specializing in smooth jazz had a In NewYork, the wellknown pianist and band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi holds court http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-07-07/577.asp
