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Quincy Jones: One Of The Greatest!

David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963

SITTING IN a deserted recording studio at Philips, listening to the playback of a just-completed session by the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra, Quincy Jones – trumpeter, pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and a & r man – talked about his work, which spans the sometimes wide gulf between pop music and jazz.

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