Was told not to marry actresses or singers. See your friend with his head off? Every day. I feel like a child, man. 27. He'd just done A Streetcar Named Desire, and he was going up to Harlem that night. Came to the hotel one day and there was an invitationshe wanted me to have lunch with her. She is Quincy's first child and the only child he had with his first wife. And you assumed you'd become a gangster, too? Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. One example was when you started doing film soundtracks. Jones was then married to Ulla Andersson, with whom he shares a son, Quincy, and a daughter, Martina, from 1967 to 1974. 25. "And we sat down in the kitchen, and for six hoursa really heavy meeting." "From wanting to be a gangster toall the other stuff.". Even setting aside the improbability of a man rising out of his background to achieve all that he has achieved, there have been at least three specific moments in Quincy Jones's life when it seems almost miraculous that fate allowed him to continue. I love to cook, man. It was funny, man. (22) Number one, we lived right next door to each other.". Get to a place where you see the access is close to the shore, and just grab them by the tail. "I just couldn't do it," he says. You gotta be kidding. His head fell off. And because each sentence from his mouth comes out sounding like a benediction, it takes a while to register that the word the 84-year-old Quincy Jones uses more than any other, as a term of both endearment and opprobrium, is motherfucker. "I forgive everybody. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. Dont you ever forget theyre 13 years smarter than we are. Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson at the 1984 Grammy Awards, . And the big bands, that's like the school of the dogs. What a guy. Weinstein double-crossed us with Citizenfour. In 2018, he revealed he has 22 girlfriends during an interview with GQ. Guys hanging off of telephone poles with ice picks in their necks, man. Joness son, Quincy Jones III, is also known as Snoopy. He laughs again. I mean, that woman was one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. I wouldn't make it up. 12. So how does she think it affected Hitler? (18) Jermaine was here last week with his 21-year-old son, and I want to do a Broadway show with him on Michael. It was freedom, man. Quincy Jones sued the Michael Jackson estate for underpaid royalties and other nancial irregularities. I said, 'Motherfucker, you don't have to pay me back.' 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. Jones didnt actually marry Kinski, mother of his youngest child. Meanwhile, there appear to be no rm plans for Jones to have a formal role in the Jackson estate or the Shakur estate. ", "Little bit. She said, 'We were doing a recruitment film for Hitlerthink I'm going to tell Hitler, "One more time, Adolf!"?' Framed on a wall of his sons mansion is the saw that the senior Quincy Jones rst used in 1928. Frank Sinatra. He does some mic-stand tomfoolery, dances a little more, then nearly tumbles into the audience trying to pull down an oversize streetlamp prop. Her debut album, No Time No Space No Age No Race Thats Nifty!, was released in 1979. There's silence on the tape for a while. I mean, I almost had a heart attack. I guess you're supposed to be the one to slow it down. Big gangs on every street. Cairo, whew.". We came almost in love with each other. Peggy Lipton, an American actress, model, and singer known for appearing in Mission Impossible and Twin Peaks, was Quincys longest marriage, as they walked down the aisle in 1974 and divorced in1989. When he was still using, would you talk to him about it? Twelve languages, everything. Musicians who have played for, and know, say, Clinton or Obama may be ten a penny these days, but how many others can also say, for instance, that they playedat the age of 19 as a trumpet player with Lionel Hamptons big band (his first regular professional job)at Dwight Eisenhowers inaugural in 1953? Al . Truman Capote. "Whatever crumbles your cookie. What do you think Michael's greatness was? Every fucking night it was like the girls coming through Neiman Marcus: 'Oh, I like trumpet players,' 'I like sax players,' 'I like guitar players' Rita Hayworth, all of them. Since I was a little kid, I've always heard the people that don't wanna do the work. "Hell yeah. And then Marlon looked back over and the guy was staring at him, right? And I know his mother, Afeni, who was a pain in the ass. "You see me with an 84-year-old woman? Jones with three of his daughters, Kidada, Jolie, and Rashida, 1997. ", Now, as you know, some people say that at a certain age the desire just evaporates., A few minutes later he shows me photos of some of his children: "When you've been a dog all your life, God gives you beautiful daughters and you have to suffer. Did you understand why he was such a big deal? "Yeah. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Jones makes a kind of exhalation noise. You first met Michael when he was 12, right? He had a toothpick and was looking at his belt buckle. Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, one of music's most profitable and celebrated collaborations after they raked in record sales into the 100s of millions, an. 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And then she told me something that really hit home. Yeah. It means if you've got it at 12, you know you're going all the way.". Methedrine. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Because it was frightening, and every day you never knew what was happening. Actress Peggy Lipton started out as a model in New York in the 1960s. (1) But these seem almost trivial and incidental alongside the actual life he's lived. (3), 4. "But your dreams always have to be big. But you'd be surprised. These women, the young ones, are aggressive now. I learned that 50 years ago.". Three or four estates they want us to take over. By this point, Jones was already very successfulas an arranger, as a solo artist, as a composer for movies and TVbut he'd first made his name as a trumpet player. Ray Charles, Frankthose guys could party. "No, they're gonna want somebody younger. "Yeah, I love Kendrick Lamar, I love Bruno Mars, I love Drake, I love Ludacris, I love Common. Can I ask how old the youngest one is, and the oldest one? Jones was born in Chicago, where his father worked as a carpenter for a local gang known as the Jones Boys. He said that was his intention.". Shit, all those cats in New York. We killed it. How did the conversation about doing the song together go? My daughter Kidada calls me LL QJLoose Lips"), but it doesn't really seem to stem the flow. I didn't know that was a perception of you. In my opinion, youre destroying it and shitting all over your people. I know those motherfuckers backwards.". At 84 years old, Quincy Jones has no problem speaking his truth, as proven by recent interviews where he dishes on his 22 girlfriends, biopic choices, dating the first daughter and Michael Jackson . It started off funny. The Twin Peaks actress and Jones became married in 1974, they separated in 1986 and their divorce was finalized in 1990. I've seen him shooting in his testicles, man. Got that charming smile. I read that your mother did something awful, too. A conversation about Charlie Parker, Tupac, Michael Jackson, and Prince: When people think about Quincy Jones, what do you think they misunderstand about you? Some people he knew moved into the other house. My people were from Mississippi. I remember one day we were out there working at Hayvenhurst, and we couldn't find Muscles, and we went downstairsthey were refurbishing this room down thereand here this cat, man, is hanging out of the parrot cage. What did you think when you realized how close you'd been? 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. All rights reserved. Plus, he has worked with some of the biggest names of all time, such as Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. Jackson at the time was looking for a producer, Jones recommended some producers but in the end asked Jackson if he could do it, Jackson said yes. Quincy Jones in 1978 worked on music for the Wiz, this is where he met icon, Michael Jackson. They raped a black woman. If there's anything I've learned in 84 years, it's that whatever you put out there, it will come back at you. "No. Because they used to live next door to us in Cannes in 1957. The first record I did with Dinah WashingtonI was 20 years old or somethingwas 'I Love My Trombone-Playing Daddy with His Big Long Slidin' Thing.' Don't you ever forget they're 13 years smarter than we are. Jones is one of just a handful of people who have accomplished the EGOTwinner of at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Every drop.". By 1964, he was named a vice president of Mercury Records, making him the first Black man to hold such a heavy position at a white-owned record company, per the American Academy of Achievement. He had learned the trumpet, taught himself arranging, and played with every band he could. They want us to take over the estate now, my son and I. ", "Yeah, he had a guy do it. When you heard that someone like Truman Capote had said something like that, what did you think? And he went back into the other room and said, 'I didn't know Quincy Jones was a Negro.' 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. That's because they said cocaine would take you from your woman. "Never. It takes work, man. Jones is referring to the legendary eveningAugust 20, 1983when both Michael Jackson and Prince attended a James Brown show at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. But he double-crossed us, and I don't give a fucksee what happened to him?". The actor also has two daughters from other relationships. "I'm writing Mandarin, writing Arabic, writing katakana in Japan. I ask him what moral he draws from this turn of events. Quincy was 19 years old when he married Jeri, but admitted she wasnt his first true love just the first love he married. You gotta make up a story she's gonna believe at 5:30 in the morning. For what, man? He nods. Fucking right it did! "Life's an amazing journey, isn't it, man?" Tupac and Kidada subsequently dated. I said, 'Oh, my man's got some pimp shoes on.' I did a tour with Nat Cole in '61 with my bandwe couldn't stop the girls. It's champagne-selling noise.". [Bono]'s a great guy. There's also a bowl of sorbet, and that's all that Jones touches. When he died, I grabbed USA Today, and Bono said, 'Quincy said he had some lovely loafers on.' They're the owners.". Nanotechnology, and the genome breakthrough at Cal State, that's what the Nobel guys said is gonna allow it. After Jones's mother was taken away in a straitjacket, his father felt unable to look after Quincy and his brother, Lloyd. So I stay in his castle.". Truman Capote, that motherfucker, he called [director] Richard Brooks up on In Cold Blood and said, 'Richard, I don't understand why you've got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.' Kikada is their first child together, and she is also a model and an author. "With her notes on them in French. She voiced one of the characters in the adventure-fantasy film 'The Wiz.' And then Daddy came out finally and hit 'em in a head with a hammer. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. Aforementioned, Quincy Jones ' daughter, Jolie Jones Levine, is an actress, musician, and activist. She'd put seasoning in with it. And it was not going well, that's for sure. That's why the second one had blue eyes." Mostly we talk about the past, naturally, and we get there soon enough. ", 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. "Let's not talk about it. "It was just very obvious what the hell happenedmade a damn fool out of himself. And he went over, put his charm on 'em, and said, 'I'd like to dance,' took her out on the floor for about 30 minutes. The only place you find success before work is the dictionary, and that's alphabetical.". What did he think of what Prince had done onstage that night? Oh Godman, this is not going too well. Jones was drawn to gang life as a child. He could never play the trumpet again. That was why Frank had Mafia bodyguards for everybody in Basie's band and me. That's how this story is usually told, anyway. To date, he has 28 Grammy awards to his name, one Emmy, and seven Oscar nominations. Get out of here. (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. It was never political. As Jones talks, a woman brings some food and puts it on the table. He's racist like a motherfucker.". Eleven-inch dong. Chris Heath stays up late with the 84-year-old music legend who has a tale to go with every famous name. It was unbelievable, man. Swift is far from the first white pop star to underwhelm him. 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. "So we invited [Prince] over to Michael's house at Hayvenhurst. He was a bad motherfucker, man. And she was illiterate. That's heavy, isn't it? Chicago is tough. This is his family crest from Sicily.". Zodiac Sign: Libra. I had to find out later through Alex Haley. And we went and talked, and after that we hugged and made up. Some people would be judgmental about having lunch with someone who was so closely involved with the Nazi Party. He died in her arms pretty much" 'Cause I don't think like that.I stopped drinking two years ago. You know, all these women were available all over the world. I just stop, man.". "Hell yeah. So he'll refer to the time Nelson Mandela tried to get him to touch a cheetah"I couldn't do it"and then he'll mention that Colin Powell called a couple of days ago because Powell was annoyed at how Tyler Perry appeared to be portraying him in a forthcoming movie. Ad Choices. I needed him to beg, and I went through the whole nine yards. It's just something else. Forgive us our trespasses and forgive those who trespass against us. Reached up and pulled my friend, and his head fell off. (26), "Yes! He used to work for the roughest gang in the history of Chicago, the Jones boys - black gangsters. He produced Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" album, the album's success made Jones the . "It was scary," he says. ", "Michael's parrot. ", "I was afraid to talk to him, really. Oh my God, they're fearless, man. (24). He was bipolar, you know. He's 17 years oldhe doesn't know what he's talking about. Still, I wonder if she regretted being in all of that. " Jones acts out grabbing hold of Tupac from behind. ", "Yeah, I started shooting. He made a damn fool out of himself, didn't he?" That's fucked-up for 14. I didn't listen to all the advice." ". Because you feel helpless. You ever see Black Orpheus? Couldn't go in the casino. And it's the best thing I ever did. That's the story of America. She was Goebbels's girlfriend." ", "Yeah. He was tough, man. ", We are interrupted by a man named Michael who earlier had welcomed me into the house. I met him in 51it was about 20 years later. It was a superstar face-off that has often been seen as a triumph for Michael Jackson, and a rare humiliation for Prince. Amyl nitrate. My poor baby.". ", There almost seems no end to the projects he's involved in: TV shows, movies, documentaries, branded products (headphones, luggage, sunglasses, pens), charities, hotels, tech initiatives, artist management. He don't need no dance lessons.' Do you like any of the people who are big right now? The most famous offspring of Quincy is the second daughter he welcomed with Peggy in 1976: actress Rashida Jones. Do you like her? "It seems like at 84 all the things you used to wonder about come clear to you.". "A little raggedy-ass car. 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. Jones, who will release a memoir, shared his. He came in on Monday morning, said, 'Hey, Q, how do you like your eggs?' (16), "I know, but people, you know. He said, 'Knowledge on acting is very important for television and movies, but it's ten times more important when you've been out with one woman all night till 5:30 in the morning and you have to go home to your wife. "The muses come out at midnight," he says. 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. he asks at one point, then answers his own question. Many people of Jones's age accept that their days may be coming to an end, and adapt accordingly. Everybody in the car died except for me. They did whatever they wanted to do. Then Janet went by. You know, we became good friends after that. It was actually two years later, in 1957, and Presley was 21 when he first appeared on the Dorsey brothers' Stage Show. And use Jermaine's son, who sings and dances just like Michael.". "I don't blame her.". I ain't gonna lie. He'd smoked a joint so he got paranoid, you know, so he went back over to the guy and said, 'Look, I was a gentleman, man, I came and asked you first, man, right?' That ain't never gonna change. So did I hear that they've said to you that you could live until 120? "The funniest thing you ever saw in your life. I don't give a shit." Lemon rules, man. Then he'll gesture to the SpaceX model rocket across the room, over toward the library. "He said, 'Man, did you hear about Jay?' "You know, because it's somebody you admire, and you see that they got this little old ragged-ass convention of racism going. I really don't. His collection of trumpets, including Dizzy Gillespie's, is mounted on the wall of his living room, behind the bar, and he describes the instruments with evident love. They remained friends until Sinatras death. Sitting with me, icking through a book of photographs, Jones comes across one of the two of them together. Or that's what you believed. "Yeah! So he's just hanging there till he digests it. I can solve a puzzlea problem just stresses me out. "I wanted to be a gangster until I was 11 . You wrote in your book that you'd heard your father had a white father who'd killed someone, but you weren't sure of the story. "Oh, give me a fucking break, man, please. 15. "He had on some burgundy wingtips, man, with thin tan rib socks, man. 30. Cairo. Jeri hit on me first. He talks again about all the birthday tributes in the works: the biopic, the Netflix doc, the TV special. ", "Knowing what you're doing. "What the fuck is that?" He says, 'Goddamn, I'm glad to see youI broke my foot.' Hell yeah. "That's the higher power. Is it true that you can cook the best lemon-meringue pie? We weren't going to take that shit. And her first husband was black. Said: 'The name ain't "man," it's "Leroy." ", He shrugs amiably. This is not generally understood to have ever been their relationshipin fact Riefenstahl often spoke of her dislike for Goebbelsthough in his diaries Goebbels did write of socializing with her in the early 1930s. I've been a fan of hers since Triumph of the Will. He also noted that his girlfriends are all aware of each other. He's still with them. You feel blessed that somehow you forgot, or whatever. Thriller was the second of the three Michael Jackson albums Jones produced, after Off the Wall and before Bad. Forgiveness is what it's all about. He has won 28 Grammy Awards. Born in Chicago in 1933, the multifaceted artist rose through the ranks in the music industry after dropping out of Berklee College of Music in Boston and starting his touring career. She soon moved on to acting roles, appearing in such TV series as Bewitched and The John . Son: Thomas Oliver - 1849-1920 Janet Mercer Oliver - 1855-1943 Janet Grieve Oliver - 1879-1950 It was shortlisted as one of the 15 documentaries up for an Oscar nomination, but it progressed no further. That's the only way you can be great, you know, is pay attention to the best guys who ever did it. ), "We used to eat rats, man. Quincy Jones, in full Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., byname "Q", (born March 14, 1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American musical performer, producer, arranger, and composer whose work encompasses virtually all forms of popular music. Quincy Jones has a history of dropping hits having produced Michael Jackson 's "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Thriller" and countless other iconic songs. "Oprah dramatizes everything. In July he was awarded $9.42 million. In the late 1960s, Jones nearly bought the house, but the owner at the time said he would only rent it, so Jones bought a house from the actress Janet Leigh on Deep Canyon Drive instead. 'He's upstairs playing that goddamn flute.' But come on, man, ain't nothing new. After I leaveit's shortly before midnightQuincy Jones will do some Sudoku. And the guy was not looking at his face. Finally, at around ten in the morning, Jones will allow himself to rest. Someone once compared his omnipresence to Forrest Gump's; Jones has heard this one, but he prefers a further twist on it: "the Ghetto Gump.". Everywhere. Back then, they were ashamed of it, man. In 1972 Quincy Jones was the theme song composer for the hit-sitcom, Sanford And Son. Everywhere. Cosby Jesus, he says, and moves on without further comment. He was a wild dude, man.". After a delay, Prince gets onstage, takes a guitar, jams a little, then strips off his shirt. "We almost won the Oscar, man. When Quincy Jones talkswandering from subject to subject as he doesthe next famous name is rarely more than a few seconds away, but it doesn't seem like name-dropping or showing off. There is not much known about their relationship due to it being more than 50 years ago, but Quincy did once reveal how they got together in high school during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Like, what's the most prominent instrument in the symphony orchestra? he says. ", "Did it hurt? Cairo, whew, he boasted. "Keeps dementia and Parkinson's away," he says. And then, I'm sure it was not planned, one of the slave owners was a Welshman. You know, I'd see him try to fighthe couldn't fight worth a shit. The junkies used to call cocaine 'girl' and heroin 'boy.' Tommy guns and stogies, stacks of wine and liquor, big piles of money in back rooms, that's all I ever saw. Jones shows me the ring on his little finger. We were two CIA guys. He tells me he now speaks 26 languages. Jones composed the theme to Cosbys rst sitcom. Prince, all of them. Frank knew first and he called me up, and he was like a little kid: 'We got the first music on the moon, man!' Obviously, Ray Charles carried on for a long time. Shit, I've got some great dishes, man. He disappears, and Jones's attention returns to me. That was my old lady, Marpessa Dawn. Aretha, 12. "They say coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. So he said, 'Oh, get [your son] some dance lessons.' Jones made her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a 1997 mini-series based on the novel by Mario Puzo. And so he never has. And the curiosity's at an all-time high. Ray Charles. "@doogerasgurd @ExpectedValues @ArchiteuthisDx @rsosa8 @LeoGreenwald He wasn't at ease dating a white woman like some black men. Nastassja was doing a film with Wim Wenders. "I'll figure something out. Quincy was first married to actress Jeri Caldwell, from 1957 to 1966. ", "With some greens. This is fresh in his mind, in part because he knows whom he blames for this disappointment. The weed smokers behind them, that's us. Brown then calls for Prince. Party our ass off. And four years later, Jerry Lee Lewis copies it (13), records it, and becomes a legend. Rashida, she was in Harvard then: 'Motherfucker, you wouldn't be where you are if they hadn't done what they did.'" She was a bitch, man. At 18, he was readyor as ready as one could be: "The band bus with Lionel Hampton got 33 people on it. Said 'Jones's kids.' And when the rest of the city is fully asleep, that's when Quincy Jones, three months short of his 85th birthday, will really get to work. ", "No. In 2007, she released anautobiography called Red Carpet Blues. He had both, but he double-crossed us. Because it was the beginning. Them cats didn't play. Michael went up there, in 40 seconds, sang I love you I love you. "Will do," says Michael, clearly joking. Jolie Jones Levine (daughter with Jeri Caldwell) Date of Birth: October 4, 1954. How stupid can that be, when you're in South Africa and Cairo and Brazil and Chinalooking for a fucking blonde?". Photo Credits: ALBANE NAVIZET/ KIPA /SYGMA /GETTY IMAGES; (Photo by John Dominis/ Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images), (Photo by Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images). It was a terrible way to live, you know. I recorded, did the arrangement, and produced Big Maybelle in 1955 with a little song called "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." "I was married three times, man. ), "Oh, pleasehe went 30 years with heroin, and then the police told him he couldn't get his license to play clubs unless he stops. Isn't that sacrilegious, telling the Pope he has pimp shoes?
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