Everything you love about American popular culture is Quincy Jones. As an artist and impresario Quincy Jones has been the creative catalyst for over 50 years of American cultural phenomena orchestrating the sounds of Frank Sinatra, setting the ambiance for Steven Spielberg, cultivating the talent of[...]
The first entry in a multivolume set that will be essential reading for aspiring producers and artists everywhere, "Q on Producing" presents the master's approach to making music. Told to and compiled by author and audio expert Bill Gibson, Quincy's observations, culled from over a year of in-depth [...]
Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry f[...]
This is a fascinating biography of one of the most critically and commercially successful composers and producers in music history. Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, and producers in the music and film industries. He has worked with such musical lu[...]
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere,[...]
This is a comprehensive look at the legendary design collaboration between jazz producer Creed Taylor and photographer Pete Turner, whose album covers revolutionized jazz album cover art. With an introduction by freelance music journalist, producer, and frequent NPR contributor Ashley Kahn, and a fo[...]