View From the Top: Quincy Jones Salutes Paris

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: June 29, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Mike Zwerin
International Herald Tribune
06-29-2000
Quincy Jones is in a unique, rich, diverse, power-packed place. He has had an overflowing plate for decades. None of it would have been possible without his Parisian years. So he is the perfect marquee name for the occasion an African American Festival aimed at saying thank you to the French for having welcomed so many African American artists, from Sidney Bechet to James Baldwin to Quincy Jones. On the Fourth of July, Jones will conduct the Orchestre National de France playing Ellington and Jones at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees with ...

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