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Article: QUINCY JONES: A LIFE IN MUSIC TROUBLED SEATTLE TEEN FOUND HIS CALLING AND BECAME ALEGEND.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 9, 2001
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Byline: REGINA HACKETT P-I art critic
At 14, Seattle's Quincy Jones was a raggedy kid with a real goal. He wanted to be like his friend Ray Charles. At 16, blind, black and orphaned, Charles had an apartment, a glamorous older girlfriend, his own record player, three suits and a life.
Jones had nothing but trouble. In and out of mental hospitals and fond of brawls, his mother haunted his life like the ghost of Christmas past. His stepmother hated him and his dad didn't notice. That's for starters, and doesn't include the additional catastrophes of racism, poverty, violence and neglect.
Music was the bridge between his life and Charles'. ...