![]() His daughter also gets Jones to sketch his own story - rough upbringing in Chicago, mentally ill mother committed when he was just a boy, tempted by the piano, taken in by the trumpet at 14. Ray Charles, who was there the night Jones was awarded Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, talks, also in voice-over, of Jones’s gift for hip and swinging arrangements. Tapes of Sinatra singing his praises accompany clips of Ol’Blue Eyes introducing his arranger conductor on TV specials. Dre’s podcast, listen in as he sweetly arm-twists Colin Powell to be on his TV African American Museum tribute, watch him chat with Tom Hanks at rehearsal for that special (“I quit drinking 19 months ago!” “Wow! Great! How’re you sleeping?”). Rather than round up legions of admirers to sing his praise on camera, she and the crew shadow Quincy for a recording of Dr. And she’s amused enough by his Energizer Bunny schedule to set the many MANY traveling sequences to Quincy’s themes to the comedies “Austin Powers” and “Sanford & Son.” She’s concerned when he’s at his sickest, emerging from a diabetic coma, encouraging the “26 hour day” workaholic and night owl to finally give up drinking. Rashida, his daughter with then-wife Peggy Lipton, is around him at all hours (glimpsed, herself, out of makeup) in all sorts of scenarios - in the hospital, backstage here, traveling there. There’s no sense being modest at this phase in his Oscar-winning/Oscar producing career, but even as he’s feted, from Montreux to Stockholm, New York to Washington, there’s a refreshing lack of pretense to the sharp-dressed octogenarian at the center of all this fuss. Jones the daughter has co-directed (with veteran jazz documentarian Alan Hicks) an adoring, broad but not particularly deep screen biography built around Quincy doing what he does best - even in his 80s, even after repeated health scares - producing, arranging and masterminding the televised star-studded opening gala of Washington’s Museum of African American History. Just following Dad around - sometimes in a wheelchair, often on his feet, enthusing, persuading, flattering, accepting the endless accolades as well as responsibilities a “legend” carries with him - made a great framework for a survey and appreciation of Q’s 80 plus years of life, 70 of them in music. She had the one she needed right at her feet. Rashida Jones of “Tag” and TV’s “Angie Tribeca,” didn’t have to arrange interviews for “Quincy,” the film she co-directed about her Emmy, Oscar, Tony and multiple Grammy Award winning Dad, Quincy Jones. Mary J.If you want a thorough documentary accounting of your legendary life in music, leave the job to your adoring daughter. (unknown), Doretta Morrow, Richard Oneto & Chorus Sarah Vaughan arranged & conducted by Quincy Jones ![]() ![]() Horst Jankowski - His Orchestra and Chorus ![]() Sammy Davis – Count Basie - Arranged & conducted by Quincy JonesĪndy Williams - Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jonesĭiahann Carroll, Dolores Harper, Ada Moore and Enid Mosierĭinah Washington with The Quincy Jones Orchestra Vania Borges & Quincy Jonesįrank Sinatra, Count Basie, Quincy Jones ( Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Quincy Jones) Shirley Horn with The Quincy Jones Orchestra Quincy Jones - El DeBarge, James Ingram, Al B. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra - Vocal by Mark Allen Milt Jackson, Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones Quincy Jones - Harry Arnold and His Orchestra King Pleasure with The Three Riffs and Quincy Jones Bandįrank Sinatra with Quincy Jones and OrchestraĮri Ohno Sampled by Ronny Jordan meets DJ Krush Quincy Jones featuring Toots Thielemans, Barry White and Mervyn WarrenĪmampondo & The Solid Brass Quintet Sampled by Beastie BoysĬhuck Willis & The Sandmen - Orch.
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