Quincy Jones News

When was the last time music changed your life? Not just to the extent of humming Wagner in public, but to the extent of abandoning your family to rent a hotel room in New York and embrace the young, vulnerable and frankly dangerous world of bebop? That's what happened in the late 1940s when Nica Rothschild heard Thelonious Monk's "'Round ...

Washington Post feature story: Fixing music education, with Quincy Jones This is a reposting of a beautifularticle from Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post, who along with me and approximately 75 leaders from all walks of life attended the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium meeting last week in New York City .

Gay rights leader and former SF Supervisor Harvey Milk will be one of 13 Californians inducted into the state's Hall of Fame next month , joining a list of luminaries that include civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, Governor Ronald Reagan, baseball player Willie Mays and musical artist Quincy Jones.

Ronald Reagan picked Frank Sinatra and Bill Blass. Bill Clinton appointed Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno and violinist Isaac Stern.

STOMP, the international sensation, welcomed The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca backstage to learn the secrets of the "stomp." Mo Rocca hosts the new weekly webcast, "The Tomorrow Show," for CBSNews.com . Mo Rocca made his Broadway debut in 2007 in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

The Earshot Jazz Festival addresses the question, "what is jazz," mostly by looking forward and outward.

Herb Alpert is pleased to have given some friendship to a lonely bull. "I'm doing what I love," says the founder of the Tijuana Brass about life 40 years after achieving recording stardom.

Legendary record producer and songwriter Quincy Jones told CNSNews.com that he would like to see more "melody" in the music industry today.

Earshot Jazz Festival , and that reminded me of the only Starbucks I will consistently frequent, the store on the northeast corner of 23rd & Jackson.

Rhythm is their business John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton keep the heart of the big band beating.

Famed Beverly Hills Courier columnist George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities.

Wednesday night the city of Seattle celebrated its music scene during the first Seattle City of Music Awards.

S eretse Small is an extraordinary Jamaican musician. He has been involved in almost every aspect of the music industry and has demonstrated a great degree of stick-to-itiveness. Not only is he the CEO of Griot Music, but he is an accomplished jazz guitarist, who has made it his mission to take the Jamaican music industry on an uncharted course.

Notes from the Net: New releases from Marty Ehrlich and Keyon Harrold, plus news, reviews, interviews, and more Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St.

NEW YORK consider to be "one of the greatest records ever made." Since its August 1959 release, "Kind of Blue" has ranked as one of the most influential and popular jazz albums ever with more than 4 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America-and has recently been reissued in deluxe box sets to ...

Three-time Grammy winner Larry Carlton today, October 5, begins the first of numerous shows in Japan and Europe that will keep him busy through the end of November.

In the third of a series of LIVE webcasts leading up to the Bermuda Music Festival, October 29-31, 2009 acclaimed singer and multiple Grammy winner Erykah Badu speaks with festival producer Rock Newman LIVE from her Dallas studio via video today at 5pm ET / 2pm PT at www.BMF09.com. There is growing excitement amongst the stars chosen personally by ...

HOMEGIRL: Carrington is a Boston-area native who teaches at Berklee and is . . . connected.

There was a time when you could end war and stuff by singing loud, and this album of socially conscious songs arranged by Quincy Jones and Sid Feller for Ray Charles may be the quintessential example.

The ''Jewel of Wayne County'' wants you to come out and enjoy some jazz, food and art this Sunday at the sixth annual Wooster Arts Jazz Fest.