Oral history interview with Quincy D. Jones, 2009

Biographical Note

Producer, composer, conductor, musician

Scope and Contents

Background and childhood: born 1933 in Chicago, early years in Chicago and Seattle; education: 1 year at Schillinger House of Music (now Berklee College of Music), studied with Nadia Boulanger; career: trumpeter and director of Dizzy Gillespie Band, record company musical director in Paris, arranger for seminal artists in 1960s, production of Michael Jackson album Thriller; views of preserving music history and culture; reflections on big band music; reminiscences of interactions with musical and political figures such as Lionel Hampton, Nelson Mandela, Tommy Dorsey, etc.

Subjects

• African American jazz musicians--Interviewers.
• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
• Jazz musicians--Interviews.
• Jones, Quincy, 1933---Interviews.
• Rowland, Steve, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

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