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Quincy Jones

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258 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

Terry, by the way, I think that's the first recorded solo I ever had on record. The first record I was ever involved with, and I think it's one of the only solos I have on record.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

Terry, by the way, I think that's the first recorded solo I ever had on record. The first record I was ever involved with, and I think it's one of the only solos I have on record.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

I don't know. I was getting more and more pulled into the quicksand of writing. And then about a year or so later, after we begged Hamp to get Gigi Grice and Benny Golson and Clifford Brown in the band, sitting next to Art Farmer and Clifford Brown and Benny Bailey helped me get into writing quickly. Clifford Brown was probably one of the greatest trumpet players that ever lived. Unbelievable.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

I don't know. I was getting more and more pulled into the quicksand of writing. And then about a year or so later, after we begged Hamp to get Gigi Grice and Benny Golson and Clifford Brown in the band, sitting next to Art Farmer and Clifford Brown and Benny Bailey helped me get into writing quickly. Clifford Brown was probably one of the greatest trumpet players that ever lived. Unbelievable.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

I don't know. I was getting more and more pulled into the quicksand of writing. And then about a year or so later, after we begged Hamp to get Gigi Grice and Benny Golson and Clifford Brown in the band, sitting next to Art Farmer and Clifford Brown and Benny Bailey helped me get into writing quickly. Clifford Brown was probably one of the greatest trumpet players that ever lived. Unbelievable.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

We had just come back from two State Department tours with Dizzy Gillespie. The first was in the Middle East, a place in Pakistan, right there, you know, Abadan and Iran and Syria, Beirut. And we came back to the White House Correspondents Ball in Washington. They liked what we had done. And so they sent us off to South America after that.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

We had just come back from two State Department tours with Dizzy Gillespie. The first was in the Middle East, a place in Pakistan, right there, you know, Abadan and Iran and Syria, Beirut. And we came back to the White House Correspondents Ball in Washington. They liked what we had done. And so they sent us off to South America after that.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

We had just come back from two State Department tours with Dizzy Gillespie. The first was in the Middle East, a place in Pakistan, right there, you know, Abadan and Iran and Syria, Beirut. And we came back to the White House Correspondents Ball in Washington. They liked what we had done. And so they sent us off to South America after that.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And naturally, a black man's going to play all these kamikaze places. They'd have the Cypriots stoning the embassy in Athens, and they'd rush us over from Ankara, Turkey, get in there quick, you know, almost like ground troops, and send a black man over there. And so the same students that stoned the embassy were all down front in the front row and everything else.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And naturally, a black man's going to play all these kamikaze places. They'd have the Cypriots stoning the embassy in Athens, and they'd rush us over from Ankara, Turkey, get in there quick, you know, almost like ground troops, and send a black man over there. And so the same students that stoned the embassy were all down front in the front row and everything else.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And naturally, a black man's going to play all these kamikaze places. They'd have the Cypriots stoning the embassy in Athens, and they'd rush us over from Ankara, Turkey, get in there quick, you know, almost like ground troops, and send a black man over there. And so the same students that stoned the embassy were all down front in the front row and everything else.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

It was pretty scary, really, because we didn't know what their conflict was all about, really. And after the... concert, the same students started crawling over the top of the stage and straight towards the band. I said, this is it now. We're in big trouble here. The same ones who were stoning the embassy. And they grabbed Dizzy. We had no idea what was on their mind.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

It was pretty scary, really, because we didn't know what their conflict was all about, really. And after the... concert, the same students started crawling over the top of the stage and straight towards the band. I said, this is it now. We're in big trouble here. The same ones who were stoning the embassy. And they grabbed Dizzy. We had no idea what was on their mind.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

It was pretty scary, really, because we didn't know what their conflict was all about, really. And after the... concert, the same students started crawling over the top of the stage and straight towards the band. I said, this is it now. We're in big trouble here. The same ones who were stoning the embassy. And they grabbed Dizzy. We had no idea what was on their mind.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And they put him on their shoulders, and they were walking around saying, Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy. I was so relieved. It was terrifying to watch them come towards the band, especially with the reputation they had in the papers the day before. And so we went down to, getting back to Latin America, we went down to Argentina first, in Buenos Aires.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And they put him on their shoulders, and they were walking around saying, Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy. I was so relieved. It was terrifying to watch them come towards the band, especially with the reputation they had in the papers the day before. And so we went down to, getting back to Latin America, we went down to Argentina first, in Buenos Aires.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And they put him on their shoulders, and they were walking around saying, Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy. I was so relieved. It was terrifying to watch them come towards the band, especially with the reputation they had in the papers the day before. And so we went down to, getting back to Latin America, we went down to Argentina first, in Buenos Aires.

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And after our first concert, we met a beautiful young musician named Lalo Schiffrin. He was a teenager then, too. And he had told me all about... He'd studied with Olivier Messiaen, and that's where I first heard the name Nadia Boulanger, and it just sent electricity through me. He also told... We also recorded down there with Asta Piazzolla, who was like a very experimental...

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And after our first concert, we met a beautiful young musician named Lalo Schiffrin. He was a teenager then, too. And he had told me all about... He'd studied with Olivier Messiaen, and that's where I first heard the name Nadia Boulanger, and it just sent electricity through me. He also told... We also recorded down there with Asta Piazzolla, who was like a very experimental...

Fresh Air
Remembering Quincy Jones

And after our first concert, we met a beautiful young musician named Lalo Schiffrin. He was a teenager then, too. And he had told me all about... He'd studied with Olivier Messiaen, and that's where I first heard the name Nadia Boulanger, and it just sent electricity through me. He also told... We also recorded down there with Asta Piazzolla, who was like a very experimental...