The Business
Musician and producer Quincy Jones & filmmaker Alan Hicks on 'Quincy'
A new documentary about Quincy Jones looks at his incredible life and career that connected him to musicians from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson. Jones also composed dozens of film scores and produced movies and TV shows.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenMusician and composer Quincy Jones has worked with the greats--Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and many more. But his ambition didn’t end there. Jones composed more than 30 films scores before becoming a producer. Now 85, he tells us about breaking into movie music at a time when Hollywood didn’t hire black composers and making Will Smith into a huge star. Filmmaker Alan Hicks joins Jones to talk about the new Netflix documentary, ‘Quincy,’ which he directed with Jones’ daughter Rashida. And we talk to journalist and author Keach Hagey, whose new book, ‘The King of Content,’ follows the long career of mogul Sumner Redstone, whose media empire is at a crossroads.
Photo courtesy of Netflix. Quincy Jones and documentary filmmaker Alan Hicks
