So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.". So you would personally buy drugs off Malcolm X? See your friend with his head off? So did I hear that they've said to you that you could live until 120? When we meet, celebrity sexual harassers are falling like dominoes. ". And you assumed you'd become a gangster, too? Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson at the 1984 Grammy Awards, . Jones mentions that he also has about a hundred tapes from the legendary film director Hal Ashby, who was trying to school Jones to become a director himself, because at the time Robert De Niro wanted Jones to co-direct a project he had, an interracial love story., "Everything. You get one take.' And in Paris to this day, you go to Chez L'Ami Louis, the waiter will come over to you with a pepper shaker and say, 'Here's your Rubirosa.' Ignorance is no thing.". Don't you ever forget it.". ", 5. BrazilBelo Horizonte, So Paulo, and Rio. Are they pretty confident you can get there? And my daughter kicked his ass, boy. ", "Yeah! Traveling bands? It was freedom, man. We'd do one-nighters, I'd fly with him on his Learjet, he said, 'Let's get on the plane before Basie's drummer's cymbal stops ringing.' Six Playboy bunnies on that. And he paid attention, and that's what you're supposed to do. I just think that's who they are, you know. Because it was frightening, and every day you never knew what was happening. Truman Capote. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star. For one thing, he seems to know, or have known, everybody. Quincy and Martina's mom were married between 1967 and 1974 when they got divorced. I really don't. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Jones wrote the soundtrack for Roots; Haley had investigated Joness genealogical background and was working with Jones on Joness autobiography before he died. Take em, put 'em in the bag, and go home, and she takes care of that. 2. But the music legend dropped a bomb. After his divorce in 1974 from Martina's mom, he married Peggy Lipton the day after the divorce. He sighs, as if to acknowledge how surreal the contrast is between the scene here, in his grand hilltop mansion surrounded by all his reminders of a lifetime of success and high living, and the world he is describing. "No e-mails, no faxes, no calls." But, say, Taylor Swift, I guess, is the biggest pop star on the planet in terms of sales right now and this week is about to sell over a million copies of her new album. However, she is also happily married to a music producer, Stewart Levine. To date, he has 28 Grammy awards to his name, one Emmy, and seven Oscar nominations. He disappears, and Jones's attention returns to me. He could never play the trumpet again. Ad Choices. (16), "I know, but people, you know. Nope. She is Jewish on her mother's side, and African-American on her father's side. Shit.". Jones first met Miles Davis when Jones was 18, and they later collaborated. He nods. Or that's what you believed. He called Michael 'Camille.' But he double-crossed us, and I don't give a fucksee what happened to him?". His second and third marriages were to actresses: Ulla Andersson and Lipton. Jones is a doting father to seven children, Rashida, Kidada, Kenya, Quincy, Jolie Levie, Martina, and Rachel. ", Jones's first proper, sustained job as a professional musician came when he went on the road, playing trumpet with the band leader Lionel Hampton, when Jones was 18. When Jones had a breakdown in the mid-1980s, Brando sent him to his private island in Tahiti to recalibrate and recover. The family had moved to Washington State four years earlier, and this change was the making of him: He discovered music, and he threw himself into learning it. Are you crazy? He was tough, man. Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra. He had learned the trumpet, taught himself arranging, and played with every band he could. Do you like her? In the new Netflix documentary Quincy, directed by Alan Hicks and Jones' daughter Rashida, we get a distinctive look at the restless polymath who worked across jazz, the blues, pop, funk and rap . He's still with them. Quincy Jones sued the Michael Jackson estate for underpaid royalties and other nancial irregularities. She didn't want to know about that shit." "I couldn't get away with it, man," he concedes. It's heavy. If there's anything I've learned in 84 years, it's that whatever you put out there, it will come back at you. Jones made her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a 1997 mini-series based on the novel by Mario Puzo. My poor baby.". You know, I came up with the two wildest motherfuckers on the planet. So he went in the joint, all black, and he saw a booth over there with a guy with a hat on and five girls. 14. They were very in love. But, you know, here's the bottom line: If the cover's fucked-up, if it's the wrong studio, wrong engineer, wrong background groups, wrong tempos for the songs, and all that stuffif that's fucked-up, it's all the producer's fault. Heavy.". He made a damn fool out of himself, didn't he?" We'll be talking, and suddenly he mentions that on the other side of the room there are cards from Picasso's wife, Jacqueline. I was terrified. [Prince] said, 'Relax your lips, girl.' So I would never press that. Eleven-inch dong. Jolie Jones Levine's Husband Is A Producer. Much later in Jones's life, there would be a diagnosis of what was wrong with her and she would find some kind of a cure, at least for her most extreme symptoms, and live until she was 94. Is it true that you can cook the best lemon-meringue pie? "Yeah, he showed up in the back of a car with a brother who was managing him, and he was like a deer in the headlights. (22) Number one, we lived right next door to each other.". Prince, all of them. "Prince told Michael he'd kill him if he showed it to anybody," Jones explains, but one way or another, time-coded raw footage of what took place that night eventually surfaced. It was horrible.". It's bullshit. I got a tape on that." I don't get into that kind of judgment. That's heavy, isn't it? "Bezosthe richest motherfucker in the world now. Jones met Charles in Seattle when Jones was 14 and Charles was 16; he was 25 when he met Sinatra, and worked as arranger on some of his most famous records. Them cats didn't play. That's the Ghetto Gump shit. So if you were producing a record for Taylor Swift, what would you have her do? "A little raggedy-ass car. Jones makes a face, somewhere between disapproval and disdain. 26. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish. He always used to say, 'Quincy, it's by the head, not the bed. It was funny, man. It's a life punctuated by so many disparate encounters and achievements and circumstances that it is hard to believe they are the experiences of a single man. The snake didn't want to hear that shit.". The next morning his friend Bill Cosby (28) called from London. She didn't like that. It means if you've got it at 12, you know you're going all the way.". I love him. There's something very beautiful and haunting about this that stays with me: the trumpet player fingering notes on an invisible trumpet that he knows he can never dare hear. Truman Capote eventually apologized, didn't he? You can't even imagine that. I mean, when you're hungry. She said she used 211 cameras. "Will do," says Michael, clearly joking. And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music.' And he went back into the other room and said, 'I didn't know Quincy Jones was a Negro.' In early 1969, Steve McQueen called Jones and asked him to go and see a rough cut of Bullitt. And we went and talked, and after that we hugged and made up. What did you think when you realized how close you'd been? His mouth is inside, but he just ate the parrot so he couldn't get out of the cage. Jones composed the theme to Cosbys rst sitcom. And so for a while they were shipped out of Chicago and lived with their grandmother in a shotgun shack in Louisville. This is his family crest from Sicily.". I don't need to, but every now and then I bring up a name myself: "Oh man, like my brother. Like the swagger that's part of their game, you know. He was a wild dude, man.". And that's what makes it important.' They had three girls and my father, and they were light-skinned, high yellow, straight hair.". (23) His son Miko, I took him to San Diego with us to get the first platinum record on Thriller, and he met Michael, and Michael's family hired him to be part of their team. Quincy is not married, but his love life appears to be on fire. The record producer once spoke candidly about his love life during an interview. It was a terrible way to live, you know. In an interview with Vulture, Jones discussed his dating life, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, and he revealed male entertainers who were bisexual. "It seems like at 84 all the things you used to wonder about come clear to you.". It was actually two years later, in 1957, and Presley was 21 when he first appeared on the Dorsey brothers' Stage Show. Very much. ", "No, it wasn't that kind of relationship. That's why the second one had blue eyes." Whew. You feel blessed that somehow you forgot, or whatever. We had to go and kiss his hand before we left. Jeri hit on me first. In 1974, the "Off The Wall" producer married actress Peggy Lipton, and they had two children. Stockholm shes coming in next week. Come on. Quincy Jones has been married three times in his life, and now openly has multiple girlfriends. For what, man? That's how he went to prison.". He killed every motherfucker he could see.". But your grandmother had several children with the same man, so whatever happened continued for a sustained period of time? That happened all the time. Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. (His grandmother had apparently once lived quite prosperously in South Charleston but sold all her property to send her children, including Quincy's father, to Rutgers. "Yes, he did. "Yeah! He's racist like a motherfucker.". ", "She knew I was a fan, and I was over there [in Berlin]. ", "Yeah. Smelly was the name Jones used for Michael Jackson; he took it from Jacksons habit of saying smelly jelly instead of funky., "Well, we sat at a table that held 24 people, at his house, family table, I said, 'MichaelSmelly, (20) you sit over there so he doesn't feel like we're ganging up on him.' I ended up with two actresses, Peggy Lipton and Nastassja Kinski (9), and a superstar model. He came in on Monday morning, said, 'Hey, Q, how do you like your eggs?' In 1972 Quincy Jones was the theme song composer for the hit-sitcom, Sanford And Son. He won the Emmy for the soundtrack to Roots and the Tony for the revival of the musical The Color Purple. Just trying to be a rapper, man. ", "Michael's parrot. he asks. He was the dope dealer. He laughs. That's the way it was back then. He either loved you with all of his heart or else he'd roll over your ass in a Mack truck in reverse. She is also a dancer and photographer. Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson at the 1984 Grammy Awards, where Thriller won Album of the Year. Quincy has also enjoyed a bustling private life: Hes been married three times and has seven children between five women. Just wanted to be that.". But for a young boy, there was only the sense that something was very much not as it should be. The front half of the right side, we call them the holy rollers. "Personally?" He had both, but he double-crossed us. Guys hanging off of telephone poles with ice picks in their necks, man. Nia Long's Mother Taught Art as a Talented Creative. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, "I feel like I'm just starting," Quincy Jones explains as he slowly takes a seat in the grand living room of his hilltop Bel-Air mansion, a wide arc of nighttime Los Angeles visible through the windows in front of him. Even though, later, your mother recovered, you never really formed a bond with her? He has won 28 Grammy Awards. "Well, at that age it's not so easily identifiable exactly what the hell's wrong. Charlie Parker, everybody there, was married to a white wife.". My mind's so clear now, you know. Nastassja was doing a film with Wim Wenders. Every time we'd go to Detroit, at the Majestic hotel, standing in front, with his Italian shit on and amber glasses: Malcolm X. Detroit Red. But it's not quite true. Because they used to live next door to us in Cannes in 1957. We had a good time, though. She's dead now. How could you forgive someone who could say that? Seven years old, I went to the wrong neighborhood, I didn't know the codes and stuff. Jones is the daughter of record producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton . There's something in the water, man.". "Yeah. "No, man, you don't do that.
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