Q: the Autobiography of Quincy Jones
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Publish date: 10/01/2001
Jones grew up on the mean streets of Chicago's South Side but soon found himself playing backup trumpet for Billie Holiday as a child prodigy. Highlights of the impressive career that followed include arranging albums for Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, composing scores for such films as The Color Purple and In Cold Blood, and producing the bestselling single "We Are the World" and the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller. For work that spans every style of American popular music, Jones has garnered an incredible seventy-six Grammy nominations and has carved out a reputation as a pioneering music executive, and film and television producer.
This impressive self-portrait from one of the master makers of American culture encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants and tells what amounts to one of the great African-American success stories of the century.
