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Chicago
Book Expo 2001 with Quincy Jones presenting his Autobiography |
| The Autobiography of Quincy
Jones Doubleday | Hardcover | October 2001 |
$26.00 | 0-385-48896-3
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| Quincy Jones at the Book Expo 2001 |
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Right is Oprah Winfrey at the Chicago
Author Breakfast During the Book Expo as Quincy Jones Presents his New Book |
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| Author Breakfast at the Chicago Book Expo, Sunday June 3, 2001 |
Prodigiously talented and stunningly protean, Quincy Jones has led
one of the most musically influential American lives of this century. In Q, he finally
tells it all, from the glamour and string of glittering achievements to the private pain,
aided by famed coauthor James McBride's own literary skill and musical expertise.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago's South Side, brushing with the
law and feeling the pain of his mother's descent into madness. When his father moved the
family west to Seattle, though, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A
prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton
Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a
career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles,
Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as
The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the
television shows "Ironsides," "Sanford and Son," and "The Cosby
Show"; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and
the bestselling single "We Are the World"; and producing and arranging his own
highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Back on the Block, a striking
marriage of jazz, rock, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans
every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-six Grammy
nominations and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and
television producer, and business entrepreneur--one of the most successful black business
figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has
been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
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Quincy Jones and Pat Schroder at the Chicago
Book Expo 2001 |
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Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a
complex, many faceted man with far more than his share of talents, as well as some
entirely human flaws. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants and
provides the raw material for one of the great African-American success stories of this
century.
AUTHOR
BIOGRAPHY
QUINCY JONES's most recent major award is the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award
from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; his most recent release is From Q with Love. He lives
in Los Angeles, California. JAMES McBRIDE is the author of the beloved and bestselling
memoir The Color of Water, which has sold more than one million copies. He is also a
gifted jazz composer and instrumentalist. He lives in South Nyack, New York.
Pictures by V. 'Yinka Vidal of OUTCRY Magazine
