Q: The Autobiography of Quincy JonesQuincy 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. |
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