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IM CURRENTLY READING QUINCY JONES AUTOBIOGRAPHY-ANYBODY ELSE? Its a majorly good read-half way through already
i like the style of having chapters written by other significant people in his life esp RAY CHARLES! i never quincy was so damn.....TALENTED! 
just getting into quincy-looks like his catologue is BIG! | |
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...I read it a few months ago. Great tales indeed. If you can find The Birth of a Band (Vol 1&2) you'll really enjoy it. The best i've been able to run down is a complilation of both volumes and it's incredible. Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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yes ive read it , favorite part is his childhood , and when he got in to music. and started playing trumpet at a local jazz cat | |
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I read this when it was first published. infact I may have to have another read of it as was so long ago since I read it.
fantastic book, & such a huge talent. . . as for his private life (he could give Hugh Heffner a run for his money  Life has a way of making you live it. . . . | |
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Did he touch on the Dinah Washington affair?  | |
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Harlepolis said: Did he touch on the Dinah Washington affair?
I read it years ago so I don't remember everything but I do remember him mentioning her and her smart ass comments 
Its a really good book. He had a rough but wonderful life. And boy o boy was he foine-play that horn boy!  | |
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i read it years ago- the things about his mom wow and what she does etc. | |
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missmad said: i read it years ago- the things about his mom wow and what she does etc.
I think that resonated the most with me. I read it years ago but I still replay those episodes in my mind whenever I think about this book. | |
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bsk3601 said: missmad said: i read it years ago- the things about his mom wow and what she does etc.
I think that resonated the most with me. I read it years ago but I still replay those episodes in my mind whenever I think about this book. me 2. | |
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One of my Favorite Books of All Time. 2 Thumbs Up!  | |
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 good book indeed | |
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i might read it, when i eventually decide to forgive Q for that nasty hypocritical shit he pulled in June. My respect for him has plummetted. |
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Marrk said: i might read it, when i eventually decide to forgive Q for that nasty hypocritical shit he pulled in June. My respect for him has plummetted.
explain! | |
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theAudience said:
...I read it a few months ago. Great tales indeed. If you can find The Birth of a Band (Vol 1&2) you'll really enjoy it. The best i've been able to run down is a complilation of both volumes and it's incredible. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Recordswhats the birth of a band?-i keep coming up with the john mayall cd!!! | |
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jonylawson said: Marrk said: i might read it, when i eventually decide to forgive Q for that nasty hypocritical shit he pulled in June. My respect for him has plummetted.
explain! 
I don't want to ruin your thread. [Edited 12/14/09 15:47pm] |
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jonylawson said: Marrk said: i might read it, when i eventually decide to forgive Q for that nasty hypocritical shit he pulled in June. My respect for him has plummetted.
explain! He told the truth about Michael's skin lightening. Floons hate his guts now. I'm a massive fan. His work on film soundtracks like The Pawnbroker is just as great as albums like Back On The Block (an underated gem in my opinion). “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: I'm a massive fan. His work on film soundtracks like The Pawnbroker is just as great as albums like Back On The Block (an underated gem in my opinion).
Seriously. Quincy's musical legacy is so much deeper than 3 MJ albums. What does he have at least 50 albums (not even counting his arranging credits)? Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Read it. Great book. 
It really feels like he is speaking to you, directly, and REAL, and not trying to be phony about what matters to him, and what he was feeling at the times in his life the book refers to. MJ Fan 1992-Forever
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I must catch up 2 this book...
His arranging with Sinatra and Count Basie were off the hook. As an arranger for a singer, says Jones, he is above all trying to make the vocalist sing better than he or she ever has before. He thinks he has been so successful because he knows, as Frank Sinatra described it, how to push their buttons: "That certain major seventh note that you go to a minor seventh on — just certain things musically that I know that emotionally it turns them on, 'cause it turns me on too."
Sinatra himself bestowed Jones' nickname upon him. He called Jones from Kauai in 1964, saying, "Q! Would you consider doing an album with Basie and I?" Jones says he asked him if the pope was Catholic. Even with all the star power around him, Jones says he didn't feel any pressure once they began work; instead, he felt love and a part of something special. "We just loved working with each other," he says of Sinatra and Basie. "He's a musician's musician..." |
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Read it a few years ago as well....Loved it....I highly recommend it "Bring friends, bring your children and bring foot spray 'cause it's gon' be funky." ~ Prince
A kiss on the lips, is betta than a knife in the back ~ Sheila E Darkness isn't the absence of light, it's the absence of U ~ Prince | |
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midnightmover said: jonylawson said: explain! He told the truth about Michael's skin lightening. Floons hate his guts now. I'm a massive fan. His work on film soundtracks like The Pawnbroker is just as great as albums like Back On The Block (an underated gem in my opinion). Read the autopsy report. It clearly shows that Michael HAD VITILIGO. Besides, don't you ever call me a floon! I've accomplished more in my young life than you will EVER accomplish in yours. By the time I was 6, I would wake up at 5 a.m. and without anything in my stomach (since I was VERY POOR), I would go to school by foot, since any of my parents had a car or could afford to buy a bus ticket. Today, I'm in the 3rd grade of the Medicine degree and receive lots of $$$ for being one of the best students in the University. You are the floon here. Not me! [Edited 12/15/09 10:57am] [Edited 12/15/09 10:58am] | |
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midnightmover said: jonylawson said: explain! He told the truth about Michael's skin lightening. Floons hate his guts now. I'm a massive fan. His work on film soundtracks like The Pawnbroker is just as great as albums like Back On The Block (an underated gem in my opinion). Not a floon, don't hate his guts at all. Keep perpetuating your myths. I thought you'd left Midnitemover, can't hide my disappointment. 
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MOL said: midnightmover said: He told the truth about Michael's skin lightening. Floons hate his guts now. I'm a massive fan. His work on film soundtracks like The Pawnbroker is just as great as albums like Back On The Block (an underated gem in my opinion). Read the autopsy report. It clearly shows that Michael HAD VITILIGO. Besides, don't you ever call me a floon! I've accomplished more in my young life than you will EVER accomplish in yours. By the time I was 6, I would wake up at 5 a.m. and without anything in my stomach (since I was VERY POOR), I would go to school by foot, since any of my parents had a car or could afford to buy a bus ticket. Today, I'm in the 3rd grade of the Medicine degree and receive lots of $$$ for being one of the best students in the University. You are the floon here. Not me! [Edited 12/15/09 10:57am] [Edited 12/15/09 10:58am] oh that shit? is anybody even bothering to pretend now that he had vitalago? anyway-yeah back on track-fantastic book | |
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jonylawson said: MOL said: Read the autopsy report. It clearly shows that Michael HAD VITILIGO. Besides, don't you ever call me a floon! I've accomplished more in my young life than you will EVER accomplish in yours. By the time I was 6, I would wake up at 5 a.m. and without anything in my stomach (since I was VERY POOR), I would go to school by foot, since any of my parents had a car or could afford to buy a bus ticket. Today, I'm in the 3rd grade of the Medicine degree and receive lots of $$$ for being one of the best students in the University. You are the floon here. Not me! [Edited 12/15/09 10:57am] [Edited 12/15/09 10:58am] oh that shit? is anybody even bothering to pretend now that he had vitalago? anyway-yeah back on track-fantastic book HIS AUTOPSY REPORT CONFIRMED THAT HE HAD VITILIGO. Did you even read my post or did you just try to be cool by using the against factor? Fantastic book? You aren't literature-oriented, are you? [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] | |
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MOL said: jonylawson said: oh that shit? is anybody even bothering to pretend now that he had vitalago? anyway-yeah back on track-fantastic book HIS AUTOPSY REPORT CONFIRMED THAT HE HAD VITILIGO. Did you even read my post or did you just try to be cool by using the against factor? Fantastic book? You aren't literature-oriented, are you? [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] Dude look at it this way. QJ is hell bent on MJ not having the disease cuz of his own insecurities about marrying white women and having kids with them etc. 2pac dissed him for it in a magazine and Q confronted him... Like you said it was there in the autopsy report, perhaps Q was having a hard time forgiving MJ for dying the way he did. | |
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rainman1985 said: QJ is hell bent on MJ not having the disease cuz of his own insecurities about marrying white women and having kids with them etc. 2pac dissed him for it in a magazine and Q confronted him... Like you said it was there in the autopsy report
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MOL said:[quote] jonylawson said: oh that shit? is anybody even bothering to pretend now that he had vitalago? anyway-yeah back on track-fantastic book HIS AUTOPSY REPORT CONFIRMED THAT HE HAD VITILIGO. Did you even read my post or did you just try to be cool by using the against factor? Fantastic book? You aren't literature-oriented, are you? [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] [Edited 12/16/09 3:08am] [/quote oh god i cant be bothered.....im a charge nurse in ICU/CCU and i also work on the ambulances so its safe to say i have a little knowledge on medical conditions and the ethics and logistics of autopsies.....yes i agree michael may have ahd vittilgo.....but perhaps a small discoloration of his dermis around his hands.....the "disease' does not do that to somebody why let it bother you? enjoy his music-and reading quincys book-my word quincy had nothing but love for michael | |
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and heres a little reading..
this is the internet source we use in our hospital http://www.medicinenet.co...ticle.htm# | |
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DAMN! i hijacked my own thread | |
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jonylawson said: DAMN! i hijacked my own thread
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