Q: the autobiography of Quincy Jones
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Main Author: Jones, Quincy 1933-2024 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Harlem Moon / Broadway Books 2002
Edition:Trade paperback edition
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Abstract:"Quincy Jones has led one of the most musically influential American lives of this century. In Q, he fainally tellsit all, beginning with his rough-and -tumble childhood on Chicago's South Side; through his teenage years in Seattle, when he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music; and into his life as a musician, playing backup for Billie Holiday and touring the world with the Lionel Hampton Band
Quincy found his true calling as a composer and arranger, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such film and television shows; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and the bestselling single "We Are the World"; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums ..."--Back cover
Physical Description:xiii, 412 Seiten, 40 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm
ISBN:9780767905107