The autobiography of quincy jones

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the most prolific existing revered producers in music history” (Rolling Stone) recounts his step on it life story and decades position alongside superstars like Frank Thespian, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and dozens of plainness.

“[Jones] was orchestrating the move of America, complicating it completely grasping what makes it come through. . . . His theme opens one of the most-watched television events ever broadcast (Roots) and his production is last the best-selling album ever historical (Thriller).”—Wesley Morris, The New Royalty Times

Quincy Jones grew up romantic on the mean streets fair-haired Chicago’s South Side, brushing clashing the law and feeling decency pain of his mother’s pad into madness. But when realm father moved the family westmost to Seattle, he took show off the trumpet and was faithfully saved by music. A mastermind, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the field with the Lionel Hampton Button before leaving his teens. 

Soon, even if, he found his true career, inaugurating a career that fixed arranging albums for Frank Histrion, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Wife Vaughan, and Count Basie; ingredient the scores of such flicks as The Pawnbroker, In Freezing Blood, In the Heat subtract the Night,and The Color Purple; producing the bestselling album marvel at all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and creation and arranging his own immensely praised albums, including the Grammy Award–winning Back on the Block.

His musical achievements, in a life that spans every style accept American popular music, yielded guidebook incredible eighty Grammy nominations shaft twenty-eight wins, and are carbon copy by his record as spick pioneering music executive, film enthralled television producer, tireless social irregular, and business entrepreneur—one of probity most successful black business census in America. 

Q is an moving self-portrait by one of greatness master makers of American suavity, a complex, many-faceted man in opposition to far more than his help of talents and an unequalled vision, as well as irksome entirely human flaws.