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FIRST, TRIBUTES POURING IN FOR
MUSIC TITAN QUINCY JONES.
JONES PASSED AWAY OVERNIGHT,
HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES.
HIS SEVEN DECADE CAREER
INCLUDED 28 GRAMMY WINS
AND COLLABORATIONS WITH ICONS
LIKE FRANK SINATRA, MICHAEL
JACKSON AND RAY CHARLES.
QUINCY JONES WAS 91 YEARS OLD.
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HOST, MUSE FOR MORE.
MIKE, HOW INFLUENTIAL WAS
QUINCY TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
AND POP CULTURE?
BECAUSE THE GRAMMY WIN FOR
THEMSELVES.
>> BUT THEN YOU LOOK AT THE
LIST OF THE PEOPLE HE WORKED
WITH.
>> HE IS ONE OF THE MOST
INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS IN THE
ART WORLD AND ART REALM REALM
ALTOGETHER ACROSS, GENRES FROM
MUSIC TO FILM TO TELEVISION
TO BROADWAY.
HE HAD A WAY OF BLENDING GENRES
FROM SOUL TO JAZZ TO ROCK
TO CLASSICAL.
HE WAS CLASSICALLY TRAINED.
HE'S A GRADUATE OF THE BERKLEE
COLLEGE OF MUSIC, SO HE WAS AN
INCREDIBLE MUSICIAN UNTO
HIMSELF.
AND DIANE, HE IS REALLY KNOWN
AS AN ARRANGER FOR
HAVING VISION.
HE HAS PRODUCED THE NUMBER
ONE SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME,
WHICH IS STILL THERE BY MICHAEL
JACKSON.
BUT HE IS ALSO TO HELP
THE OTHER INCREDIBLE LEGACY
OF MUSIC WITH BRINGING TOGETHER
AN ASSORTMENT OF STARS.
AND WE ARE THE WORLD ALSO
TO DIANE.
THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING,
I THINK A MANY REMEMBER
BY QUINCY JONES IS HIS
PRODUCTION OF THE WIZ.
THE WAY THAT HE WAS ABLE
TO BREAK DOWN THAT SCENE OF,
THE EMERALD CITY, WHERE YOU HAD
THREE DIFFERENT MOVEMENTS BASED
UPON COLOR WHERE YOU HAD GREEN,
YOU HAD RED AND YOU HAD GOLD,
AND HE WAS ABLE TO CREATE
DIFFERENT MUSICAL MOVEMENTS
WITHIN THAT SAME SPACE.
THAT LEFT A LEGACY THAT WILL
BE ADMIRED TO COME.
AND MIKE, HOW DO YOU THINK
JONES WILL BE REMEMBERED IN THE
PANTHEON OF AMERICAN POPULAR
MUSIC?
>> HE WILL BE REMEMBERED
AS SOMEONE WHO WAS ABLE TO TAKE
SOMETHING SO SIMPLISTIC AS A
NOTE OR A LINE OR A MELODY
AND TURN IT INTO AN INCREDIBLE
ARCHIVE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY
OF MUSIC.
NO ONE HAS AN EAR LIKE QUINCY
JONES, AND NO ONE HAS THE EAR
TO ONE EYE AND HIM ABLE
TO IDENTIFY TALENT, JUST RAW
TALENT AS A VOICE VOCAL
PERFORMANCE AND ABILITY TO BE
A STAR.
BUT THEN THE OTHER CHALLENGING
THING THAT DIANE BEING ABLE
TO PRODUCE THE MUSIC AROUND
THEM THAT REALLY MATCHES
WHO THEY ARE AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
I COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER
INDIVIDUAL THAN MICHAEL JACKSON
TO BE ABLE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THAT THRILLER
ALBUM, HOW GROUNDBREAKING
THAT WAS, HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE
SOMEONE WHO WAS KNOWN AS BEING
A PART OF THE JACKSON FIVE,
AS BEING WITH HIS BROTHERS
AND BE ABLE TO CREATE AN
INDEPEND AND STAR SEND HIM INTO
THE STRATOSPHERE.
DIANE BECAUSE HE HAD
THE MUSICAL FAR TOO OFTEN.
WE SEE SINGERS UP TODAY
WHO HAVE INCREDIBLE ABILITY
BUT LACK THE PRODUCTION,
THE MUSIC TO MATCH THEIR THAT
IS A ART FORM AND A SCIENCE
UNTO ITSELF.
HE WENT ALSO TO TO PRODUCE
MICHAEL JACKSON'S BAD ALBUM,
REALLY HELPING DEFINE THAT ERA
OF WHO MICHAEL JACKSON IS.
SO THAT ALONE, THE ART FORM
AND THE SCIENCE OF BEING ABLE
TO PAIR GREAT VOCALISTS
WITH GREAT MUSIC, OFTEN GREAT
MUSICIANS WITH GREAT PAIRING,
SCORING AND SOUNDTRACKING.
AND THAT IS WHAT QUINCY JONES
LEGACY WILL BE KNOWN FOR,
IS ART FORM OF WHO QUINCY IS.
>> AND MIKE, WHAT DO QUINCY
JONES MEAN TO YOU PERSONALLY?
>> QUINCY JONES I HAD A CHANCE
TO MEET HIM ON AN OCCASION
DURING THE GRAMMYS WEEKS, AND I
REMEMBER JUST TALKING TO ABOUT
AS A FELLOW MUSICIAN MYSELF,
I AM NO LONGER NO WAY
ON THE STANDARDS OF THE GREATS
THAT HE'S WORKED WITH, BUT I
WAS IN MY CITIES ALL AFTER JAZZ
MAN ATLANTIC, LANSING, MICHIGAN
TO MY SENIOR YEAR, BUT I WAS
LISTENING TO QUINCY MUSIC.
I REMEMBER BUYING THE CD AT THE
TIME.
REMEMBER THAT DIANA
CALLED QUINCY JONES AND I
PLAYED ALL THE TIME.
HE WAS SOMEONE WHO I SAW
WHO COULD TAKE AN INSTRUMENT.
AND BACK THEN I DIDN'T THINK
MUSICIANS REALLY COULD DO MUCH.
BUT HE SHOWED ME WHAT IS
POSSIBLE WITH AN INSTRUMENT.
HE SHOWED ME WHAT IS POSSIBLE
WITH MUSIC, BUT HE ALSO TO
SHOW ME THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO
PUT YOURSELF INTO A BOX
OF LIMITATIONS.
YOU CAN BE MORE THAN JUST
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IDEA.
AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT HE MEANT
FOR ME.
A VISIONARY, SOMEONE
WHO BLENDED GENRE, SOMEONE
WHO HAD THE PRESENCE
AND SOMEONE WHO LEANED INTO
THE NUANCE, THAT IS WHO QUINCY
AND DIANA.
HE DID IT WITH SUCH GRACE.
WHEN YOU TALK TO HIM, YOU FELT
LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE IN HIS
PRESENCE.
AND IN THAT MOMENT, EVEN DOING
WEEK WHEN EVERYONE IS VYING FOR
HIS ATTENTION, THAT STEAL AWAY
THAT AMOUNT TIME WAS VERY
PRECIOUS.
AND I WON'T FORGET THAT.
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