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\u201cJust you and nothing else… You and nothing else\u201d.<\/p>\n
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It was on June 27, 2019<\/strong><\/b> that Quincy Jones<\/strong><\/b>‘ most personal and famous hit, Ai No Corrida (1981), resounded at the Accor Arena<\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An all-brass track performed by a symphony orchestra in the presence of the artist himself, who was determined to celebrate 70 years of a career<\/strong><\/b> marked by encounters, discoveries and hits that have left an indelible mark on several generations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The array of prestigious guests present that evening was a reflection of his life, whose address book was an authentic Who’s Who of the American music industry over seven decades<\/strong><\/b>: Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A life lived at a hundred miles an hour, which came to an end on November 3, 2024 in Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/b> He was 91 years old.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yet nothing predestined Quincy Delight Jones to become \u201cMr. Q\u201d<\/strong><\/b>, a respected authority figure capable of channeling the egos of pop, rock and jazz superstars<\/strong><\/b> such as Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Born in 1933 in Chicago<\/strong><\/b>, the capital of American crime in the final days of Prohibition<\/strong><\/b>, he had every reason to end up badly. His violent father<\/strong><\/b> was directly linked to the Jones Boys gang, a rival gang to the godfather of godfathers at the time, a certain Al Capone<\/strong><\/b>, who had been convicted of tax fraud two years earlier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following a serious schizophrenic attack, his mother<\/strong><\/b> was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital<\/strong><\/b>. When he was eleven, his father filed for divorce and decided to escape the mob, fleeing with him to Bremerton, Washington, before migrating to Seattle.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He immediately made the unexpected encounter<\/strong><\/b> that would<\/strong><\/b> change his life forever and save him from the temptation of a career in the Mafia: that with a piano<\/strong><\/b>. When he heard the first notes in a village hall, he washooked<\/strong><\/b>: \u201cWhen I touched it, every cell in my body told me this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life,<\/em> \u201d Quincy Jones told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nGangster seed<\/h2>\n
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