Quincy Jones GQ interview. Don't hold back now!

[Dmitry]

Some good meat to pick at here.

https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story

[bertrand]

Can sexual harassment charges be far behind?

[clifford_thornton]

He does not seem like a likable (or very interesting) person, though some of his early work in the jazz idiom I do enjoy.

[mr jazz]

Good read! Do I believe all of it? Nooooooo

[Morganized]

Fun read. Thanks for posting.

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, mr jazz said:

Good read! Do I believe all of it? Nooooooo

"I've tried every drug -- moon rocks, paper towel dispensers, titanium -- you name it!"

[Coda]

On Ray Charles:

I've seen him shooting in his testicles, man. Because heroin's a strange drug. Ray, all of his veins were dried up and black, and he's shooting himself in the testicles, man."

And you'd see that?

"Yeah, he had a guy do it. It was horrible."

***
Okay, is this believable?

[JSngry]

yes

maybe not testicles, but scrotum, for sure.

[JSngry]

But believable does not auto-equate to true.

[Teasing the Korean]

Capote.

[JSngry]

Very believable.

All that shit is believable, actually.

 

[Dmitry]

Didn't someone post a QJ Vulture interview link here? 

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

It's interesting that both interviews are focused largely on different subjects; gives a more rounded picture of QJ's thinking.

An interesting explanation of Coltrane as a steadfast interpreter of Slonimsky.

 

Is there an example from the work you did, maybe with Michael, which illustrates what you’re talking about?
Yeah, the best example of me trying to feed the musical principles of the past — I’m talking about bebop — is “Baby Be Mine.” [Hums the song’s melody.] That’s Coltrane done in a pop song. Getting the young kids to hear bebop is what I’m talking about. Jazz is at the top of the hierarchy of music because the musicians learned everything they could about music. Every time I used to see Coltrane he’d have Nicolas Slonimsky’s book.

Yeah, he was famously obsessed with the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. That’s the one you’re talking about, right?
That’s right. You’re bringing up all the good subjects now! Everything that Coltrane ever played was in that thesaurus. In fact, right near the front of that book, there’s a 12-tone example — it’s “Giant Steps.”Everyone thinks Coltrane wrote that, he didn’t. It’s Slonimsky. That book started all the jazz guys improvising in 12-tone. Coltrane carried that book around till the pages fell off.

When Coltrane started to go far out with the music —
“Giant Steps.”

Even further out, though, like on Ascension —
You can’t get further out than 12-tone, and “Giant Steps” is 12-tone.

But when he was playing atonally —
No, no, no. Even that was heavily influenced by Alban Berg — that’s as far out as you can get.

 

 

 

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[clifford_thornton]

That's like saying Jackson Pollock was nothing but Thomas Hart Benton redux.  I mean, sure, it's definitely there, but it's also beside the point.

[Dmitry]

On 1/30/2018 at 10:09 AM, bertrand said:

Can sexual harassment charges be far behind?

How do you figure that?

[bertrand]

His cavalier attitude towards women could hide something more. Maybe not. We shall see.

[aparxa]

22 minutes ago, bertrand said:

His cavalier attitude towards women could hide something more. Maybe not. We shall see.

So maybe, let us no talk about sexual harassment charges so lightly no matter how  unpleasant  many aspects of the interview might be.

 

[Dmitry]

Which harassment? Am I missing something here?

[bertrand]

I am saying there could be a correlation. There is nothing in the interview suggesting it.

[mjzee]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/quincy-jones-walks-back-claims-wild-interviews-1087381