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ISBN
9780385488969

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385488963
ISBN-13
9780385488969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1651283

Product Key Features

Book Title
Q : the Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
Quincy Jones
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-028151
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"An appealingly convivial blur of deal-making celebrity anecdotes and professional comebacks...Jones is so open that he seems transparent: You can see a whole world of popular music in him." --The New Yorker "Jones's richly anecdotal autobiography...is a well-orchestrated memoir." --People
Dewey Decimal
781.64/092 B
Synopsis
Prodigiously talented and amazingly protean, Quincy Jones has led one of the most musically influential American lives of this century. In Q, he finally tells it all, from the glamour and string of glittering achievements to the private pain, revealed for the first time with stunning honesty.Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago's South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother's descent into madness. When his father moved the family west to Seattle, though, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, 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 films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows "Ironsides", "Sanford and Son", and "The Cosby Show"; 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, including the Grammy Award -- winning Back on the Block, a striking marriage of jazz, rock, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-six G
LC Classification Number
ML419.J7A3 2001

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  • by carmelgirlz69
    11 Feb, 2018

    Book damaged

    Smelled of cigarette smoke unable to read it do to malodorous condition.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: djeldridge1

  • by ricth2350
    12 Jun, 2020

    Quincy Jones autobiography

    Quincy Jones is a living legend . A very very gifted person . Unbelievable the skills and hats he wears in his lifetime .👍👍👍👍

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

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    19 Dec, 2024

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