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L'histoire d'un homme follement talentueux et incroyablement visionnaire. Désigné par le Time Magazine comme l'un des musiciens de jazz les plus influents du xxe siècle, Quincy Jones est producteur, au sens le plus large et le plus créatif du terme. Au cours de sa carrière il a embrassé tour à tour les rôles de compositeur, producteur de disques, arrangeur, chef d'orchestre, musicien et entrepreneur.
Dans ces mémoires enfin réédités, l'artiste se livre à travers une foule d'anecdotes et de détails. De son enfance misérable dans la banlieue de Chicago jusqu'à la production de l'album le plus vendu de tous les temps – l'incontournable Thriller – c'est une vie unique qui défile, jalonnée de légendes telles que Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg... L'autoportrait, sincère et attachant, de l'un des maîtres de la culture " pop ". L'histoire d'un homme follement talentueux et incroyablement visionnaire.
" Quand je jouais, mes cauchemars cessaient, mes soucis familiaux s'envolaient, et je trouvais les réponses à mes questions dans le pavillon de ma trompette et mes partitions griffonnées au crayon. "
Avec une postface inédite de l'auteur.
Dans ces mémoires enfin réédités, l'artiste se livre à travers une foule d'anecdotes et de détails. De son enfance misérable dans la banlieue de Chicago jusqu'à la production de l'album le plus vendu de tous les temps – l'incontournable Thriller – c'est une vie unique qui défile, jalonnée de légendes telles que Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg... L'autoportrait, sincère et attachant, de l'un des maîtres de la culture " pop ". L'histoire d'un homme follement talentueux et incroyablement visionnaire.
" Quand je jouais, mes cauchemars cessaient, mes soucis familiaux s'envolaient, et je trouvais les réponses à mes questions dans le pavillon de ma trompette et mes partitions griffonnées au crayon. "
Avec une postface inédite de l'auteur.
512 pages, Paperback
Published November 10, 2021
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Quincy Jones
125 books32 followersQuincy Delight Jones Jr. was an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between Frank Sinatra and the jazz artist Count Basie. Jones produced three of the most successful albums by pop star Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia.
Jones composed numerous films scores including for The Pawnbroker (1965), In the Heat of the Night (1967), In Cold Blood (1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz (1978), and The Color Purple (1985). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the miniseries Roots (1977). He received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical as a producer for the revival of The Color Purple (2016).
Throughout his career he was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the Grammy Legend Award in 1992, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of the Arts in 2011, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014, and the Academy Honorary Award in June 2024. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before producing pop hit records for Lesley Gore in the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between Frank Sinatra and the jazz artist Count Basie. Jones produced three of the most successful albums by pop star Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia.
Jones composed numerous films scores including for The Pawnbroker (1965), In the Heat of the Night (1967), In Cold Blood (1967), The Italian Job (1969), The Wiz (1978), and The Color Purple (1985). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the miniseries Roots (1977). He received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical as a producer for the revival of The Color Purple (2016).
Throughout his career he was the recipient of numerous honorary awards including the Grammy Legend Award in 1992, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of the Arts in 2011, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014, and the Academy Honorary Award in June 2024. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
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