Q : the autobiography of Quincy Jones / Quincy Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Quincy, 1933-2024, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Quincy, 1933-2024.

Jones, Quincy.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Jones, Quincy, 1933-.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

regular print

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Autobiography of Quincy Jones

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2001]

Summary:

Jones started out playing trumpet in the Lionel Hampton Band before going on to a career as a composer, arranger, and record producer.

Contents:

The promise

Little Lucy / Lucy Jackson

You shall have no pie

His, hers, and theirs / Lloyd Jones

Jook joint

Rugrat / Clark Terry

Bumps

Six-nine / Ray Charles

The four winds

Rock 'n' roll / Jerome Richardson

Pogo

A sip of water / Jeri Caldwell-Jones

Dinah

The meaning of mother / Lloyd Jones

Dizzy

Nadia / Bobby Tucker

Nicole

Free and easy

Living it / Buddy Catlett

My life as a dog

It ain't necessarily so / Clarence Avant

Frank

Helter skelter

Daddy / Richard Jones

Going down

A sorry emotion / Peggy Lipton

Thriller

House of papers / Kidada Jones

Check your egos at the door

Normal / Quincy Jones III

Breakdown

Back on the block / Melle Mel

From bebop to hip-hop

The refund line in heaven / Lloyd Jones

Acceptance

Immortality / Rashida Jones

Epilogue : getting the call.

Notes:

Includes discography (pages 343-360), filmography (pages 361-371), and index.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2002

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Quincy, 1933- Q.

ISBN:

0385488963

9780385488969

OCLC:

46240374

Online:

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