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Quincy Jones remembered by Mark Ronson
The musician salutes his friend, the virtuoso producer and composer and ‘a benevolent cheerleader for the wonder of music’
The guts to drop everything, leave the rat race and bury myself in theory and orchestration, and return a musical Jedi master, instead of freezing like a deer in headlights at Abbey Road while conductors toss around terms that may as well be in Klingon. Quincy knew – intuitively, spiritually – what I was searching for and what the song needed Seeing him there, stage right, seated in his director’s chair – looking every bit the debonair godfather of music, smiling back at you – elicited a wild mix of emotions. And timeless masterpieces – [USA for Africa’s] We Are the World, his arrangement of Fly Me to the Moon, [Lesley Gore’s] It’s My Party, Soul Bossa Nova, [George Benson’s] Give Me the Night – each carrying his special blend of genius and joie de vivre.
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