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Article: QUINCY JONES EXPLORES HIS PARALLEL LIVES.(Preview)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1990
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Byline: Rita Kempley The Washington Post
"Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones" sounds like a hyperbolic title for a film biography, but after the swirl of sight, sound and celebrity that synopsizes into two hours of Quincy Delight Jones Jr.'s 50-year affair with music, it doesn't seem at all strange that there is no "The End" at the end.
Quincy Jones is an unfinished symphony.
Certainly his is a life you couldn't invent: Start at 13, when Jones plays in a band with 15-year-old Ray Charles, and fast- forward to the entertainment empire that's producing NBC's "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and turning old pal Jesse Jackson into a journalist, ...