QUINTESSENTIAL QUINCY JONES.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: October 19, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Pearson

Q:The Autiobiography of Quincy Jones

by Quincy Jones. Doubleday. 412 pages. $26.

Grade: A-

If you've enjoyed jazz or pop music over the past 40 years - whether as a consumer or a creator - you know the name Quincy Jones.

Perhaps you know him as the producer-arranger who worked with most of the century's jazz greats: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington.

Or maybe you know him through his television and film scores: In the Heat of the Night, Sanford & Son, Ironside, The Color Purple. ...

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