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Quincy Jones
In conversation with Ben Fong-Torres
Tuesday, December 16 , 2008 |
Herbst
Theatre, 8pm
As a composer, producer, arranger, impresario, musician, performer
and philanthropist, Quincy Jones has risen to the top of
American music in the past seven decades. Born in Chicago, the Jones
family moved to Seattle, Washington when Quincy was 10. The city,
and the diversity of young musicians Jones would meet as a teenager
there - Ray Charles, Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson, had a lasting
impact on his musical career. Quincy Jones began playing the trumpet
in elementary school, and at 18 won a trumpet scholarship to the
Schillinger House of Music (now Berklee College of Music) in Boston.
In 1951, Jones left Boston to join bandleader Lionel Hampton on
tour, and by 1956 had become the musical director and trumpeter
for the Dizzy Gillespie Band. Since then Jones has built a dynamic,
varied music career whose highlights include arranging for Frank
Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Dinah Washington, composing
33 major motion picture scores, producing Michael Jackson's groundbreaking
Thriller album, and producing the popular NBC show The Fresh
Prince of Bel Air. Jones' numerous collaborations include work
with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Steven Spielberg,
Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Miles Davis. The recipient of
27 Grammy Awards, Quincy Jones has been nominated a record 79 times.
Since the 1960s, Quincy Jones has been both activist and humanitarian.
He founded the Institute for Black American Music, the Black Arts
Festival in Chicago, and the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation,
an international charity that serves young people through education
and the arts. The latest book about Jones, The Complete Quincy
Jones: My Journey and Passions, will be published in October
2008.
Ben Fong-Torres took a job writing for Rolling Stone
magazine in 1968, during its first year of publication, and
by 1969 was the magazine's News Editor. His many interviews, for
publications from Esquire to Playboy to Sports
Illustrated, include Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, and Steve Martin.
Fong-Torres is currently writing a book about Quincy Jones.
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