In early 1969, Steve McQueen called Jones and asked him to go and see a rough cut of Bullitt. I don't need to, but every now and then I bring up a name myself: "Oh man, like my brother. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. ", He shrugs amiably. They want us to take over the estate now, my son and I. It doesn't hit you that way it should hit you. : "They made that little monster, and he looked too much like a brother. Quincy Jones says he dated Ivanka Trump, reveals bisexual male Come on. 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. That's what you wanted to do so you could protect yourself. But it wants more and more all the time. 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. She is also a painter. Many people of Jones's age accept that their days may be coming to an end, and adapt accordingly. Oh baby! Also in 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University. Jones gives me a look, a kind of incredulity that is some mixture of horror and bewilderment. Buzz Aldrin. "I was married three times, man. I said, 'Y'all are not young anymore.' So the new numbers are 28 to 42. Quincy Jones dishes on his worldwide network of girlfriends A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star. Fuck, man, I thought I was gonna die. ". 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 . (3), 4. Nope. 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.' Nia Long's Mother Taught Art as a Talented Creative. Julie Taymor to directthat's my baby, biggest in history, Lion King. Swift is far from the first white pop star to underwhelm him. She didn't like that. Actress Rashida Jones is celebrating her 45th birthday. I came out of Birdland (21) when I was 18 years old Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Marlon. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. "That's heavy. "He had a perspective on details that was unmatched. 18. "I'm not." Even more interesting is the fact that the musician shares his kids with five different women. Alcohol. But if you're black, that's what you get used to in America.". Kikada is their first child together, and she is also a model and an author. Because they think that's all you like, but that's stupid, man. You know, we became good friends after that. ", "Yeah. (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. Jones didnt actually marry Kinski, mother of his youngest child. ", But he now had music to show him a path forward, a way out. Just get 'em. And they cut her belly open with the baby, you know." [Prince] said, 'Relax your lips, girl.' She'd put seasoning in with it. It's a strong drug. His head fell off. Fucking right it did! And we went out there to see her, Manteno State Hospital. Emotionally, it must have got to him. 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? He begins talking about his life. ", "Nope. When you're 7 years old, you don't give a fuck, you know. Born and raised in The Bronx, Jolie Jones' husband, Stewart Levine, began his lifelong musical journey at the young age of . Some people consider her the great songwriter of our age. He laughs. "Well, my daughters gave me new numbers, because they kept saying, 'Dad, you can't go out with girls younger than us.' She was Goebbels's girlfriend." Man, the song is the shitthat's what people don't realize. I ain't gonna lie. Let me ask you about someone completely different. This time he listened. I was terrified. Seven years old, I went to the wrong neighborhood, I didn't know the codes and stuff. "We don't have a cover, do we?" He said, 'Did you see that he's dead?' Aforementioned, Quincy Jones ' daughter, Jolie Jones Levine, is an actress, musician, and activist. I dont see you ghting for your race. One of these was part of the National GuardJones lied and said that he was 18 so that he could join. Dont you ever forget it., Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter, Allison Holker Snuggles Up To Kids Maddox, 7, & Zaia, 3, Nearly 3 Months After Twitchs Tragic Death, Ariana Madix Hangs With Pal Kristen Doute Amid Tom Sandoval & Raquel Leviss Cheating Drama, Tom Sizemore Dead: Acclaimed Actor Dies At 61 After Brain Aneurysm, Ozzy & Sharon Osbournes Grandkids: Meet Their Grandchildren, Shoppers Say This Nicole Kidman-Approved Brands $4 Lip Balm Is the Best of the Best for Healing Cracked Lips, Did Vanderpump Rules Tom Cheated on Ariana With Raquel? And an ice pick here. And when I kissed his hand, I looked down and saw those shoes and it just fell out of my mouth. ", 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. 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. ", A further landmark in their uneasy rivalry came when Jones suggested to Jackson that Prince duet with him on the title track of his Bad album. He said, 'Okay, I'll get him acting lessons.' "Yeah. When something like that happensnearly being at this terrible eventwhat does it make you think? Then he'll gesture to the SpaceX model rocket across the room, over toward the library. Here are some reflections on the early days of rock 'n' roll: "I was with Tommy Dorsey when Presley showed up at 17 years old. And Dorsey said, 'Fuck himI won't play with him.' The weed smokers behind them, that's us. Cairo. "No, because she never got involvedshe never got passionate about what the Third Reich was doing. Jones with three of his daughters, Kidada, Jolie, and Rashida, 1997. There's nothingthere's no upside. It was freedom, man. Artist: Brothers JohnsonAlbum: Look Out For #1Label: A&MCertification: GoldRelease date: June 12, 1976Weeks at No. Quincy Jones Reflects On His Feud With Michael Jackson - YouTube I still got the script. ", "Yeah. Can I ask how old the youngest one is, and the oldest one? The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Are you crazy? They raped a black woman. Since I was a little kid, I've always heard the people that don't wanna do the work. "All the guys in the Vatican had these Vatican black shoes," Jones recalls, but not the Pope. Shit. And then he started on black coffee and Dutch Bols gin for 25 years." Hampton first invited Jones to join his touring band when Jones was 15, and Jones had even gotten on the bus, ready to leave, but Hampton's wife and business manager threw him off because he was too young. How stupid can that be, when you're in South Africa and Cairo and Brazil and Chinalooking for a fucking blonde?". He's 17 years oldhe doesn't know what he's talking about. So, who are the women who once held they key to the music industry icons heart? Eleven-inch dong. ", "Good, man. She is Jewish on her mother's side, and African-American on her father's side. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish. Cape Town. He had a toothpick and was looking at his belt buckle. Ad Choices. She grew up in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jeri hit on me first. PleaseI worked with everybody in the fucking world in music.". Jolie played in movie Panic in Echo Park (1977) and she has been married to Levine and had 2 sons Donovan and Sunny. He'd dance his ass off. ", You and Frank Sinatra had the first song played on the moon, didn't you? "Yeah. Al . The record producer once spoke candidly about his love life during an interview. And from many of the allusions he makes, in many ways Jones clearly knows more about technology and where it's heading than most people a third of his age. My daughters have since taught me that guys think their rap is so strong that women cant resist but thats not it: A girl has a guy spotted a year before he even knows shes there!. 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. "And then I said, 'Come here, motherfucker, I've got to talk to you.' I love 'em so much. he asks at one point, then answers his own question. I recorded, did the arrangement, and produced Big Maybelle in 1955 with a little song called "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." What did he think of what Prince had done onstage that night? Marvin Gaye's Sister Calls Out 'Wicked & Vindictive' Quincy Jones - EBONY "I just couldn't do it," he says. "Let's not talk about it. Appeals are ongoing. No goddamn canes and no cups, nothing like thathis mother wouldnt let him do it. Quincy is not married, but his love life appears to be on fire. In 1974, the "Off The Wall" producer married actress Peggy Lipton, and they had two children. You think a huge part of the horror of Nazism was just down to cocaine? A third time Quincy Jones's life might have come to a premature halt: Barely a few hundred yards away from where we sit tonight, on a nearby hillside, is a house with a troubled history. Prince appeared in the studio, right, back when you and Michael were recording 'Off the Wall'? ", We are interrupted by a man named Michael who earlier had welcomed me into the house. Jackson sings a few phrases, spins, moonwalks, then embraces Brown and can be seen whispering to him. Mary J. Blige. His mother was taken away when he was 7"to a mental home," he says, "for dementia praecox." He didn't have a top on. "It was scary," he says. Quincy was co-directed by his actor daughter Rashida Jones and documentarian Alan Hicks and is arranged as superbly as one of Jones's scores. (22) Number one, we lived right next door to each other.". Cairo, whew, he boasted. I ended up with two actresses, Peggy Lipton and Nastassja Kinski (9), and a superstar model. And when I cook, I cook like an orchestrator. Some days he was okay, but others he was all over the place. [Bono]'s a great guy. Fry it, in a frying pan. He laughs. When we first went in, there was a little blonde lady there, standing up with no shoes on, in her underwear, and she had a bowl of feces and she says, 'You shall have no pie!' After I leaveit's shortly before midnightQuincy Jones will do some Sudoku. In fact, he will say it in my presence 89 times. Read on to learn about Quincy Jones three previous wives. "Seven or 8 years old. I'm telling you. 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. 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.' "Man, it's been happening to me all my life. Kidada Jones was raised in Bel Air, where her home was often frequented by celebrities like Michael Jackson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "I'm writing a street operafor my album.". Quincy Jones Has a Story About That | GQ He nods. That's the way it was back then. Would you ever say to Michael, "This stuff is strange"? (18) Jermaine was here last week with his 21-year-old son, and I want to do a Broadway show with him on Michael. "I'll write music," he says. So did Rubirosathe king of the playboys. I never understood why sex and violence were so commercialit's the primate brain, the animal brain. That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. And red beans and rice. When I arrived here this evening, Jones had just woken up. '", "Just go down there and do it, man. He made a damn fool out of himself, didn't he?" 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. Life is a trip, man. "I'm fighting that like a warrior. It was no problems after that. Michael was scared to deathhe thought there was some voodoo in there. Mostly we talk about the past, naturally, and we get there soon enough. He points to a scar he's had on his hand for 77 years. Framed on a wall of his sons mansion is the saw that the senior Quincy Jones rst used in 1928. You know, I came up with the two wildest motherfuckers on the planet. Jones is the proud father of seven children, some have followed into the showbiz industry including actresses' daughters, Kidada and Rashida Jones. (Jones helped connect them.) He was a wild dude, man.". There is the career, of course: the jazz musician, the arranger, the record executive, the soundtrack composer, the solo artist, the producer of the biggest pop album in history, the entrepreneur, the media magnate, the film and TV producer, the philanthropistand on and on. Said 'Jones's kids.' ", "Knowing what you're doing. Jones makes a face, somewhere between disapproval and disdain. There's also a bowl of sorbet, and that's all that Jones touches. 11. "With her notes on them in French. L-E-R-O-motherfucking-Y.' Nastassja was doing a film with Wim Wenders. He bit Rashida. Ray, all of his veins were dried up and black, and he's shooting himself in the testicles, man. You gotta be kidding. Together they had Quincy's first child, daughter Jolie. "Personally?" I said, 'Oh, my man's got some pimp shoes on.' "It's life, man. But he double-crossed us, and I don't give a fucksee what happened to him?". Truman Capote. Always been fun. Ray had me on heroin for five months. ", "Yeah! I didn't tell him. "Yes, he did. Cigarettes. I really don't. Because you feel helpless. Amazing process of producing those albums, man. Jones is one of just a handful of people who have accomplished the EGOTwinner of at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Muscles"Jackson's boa constrictor"and Bubbles." He got paranoidgot outside and ran 15 blocks, nobody after him. And that's the most incredible meeting I've ever had in my life. (29). You get one take.' 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. When she said that, it opened up a door for me. To me, it's like orchestration. 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. (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 rough and scary, and the only promising option that a young boy living within it could envision was becoming a gangster himself: "The '30s in Chicago, man. He didn't say to the brothers, 'Go with him.' It's an amazing journey, isn't it?". he says. Quincy Jones' Wife: Meet The Three Women He's Been Married To And four years later, Jerry Lee Lewis copies it (13), records it, and becomes a legend. "I'll figure something out. My people were from Mississippi. "You know, because it's somebody you admire, and you see that they got this little old ragged-ass convention of racism going. That's for sure.". (16), "I know, but people, you know. I said, 'Michael, I need you to just murmur and beg, and [use] soft falsetto voice low, so you get a contrast to the dee do da da day do do. Rashida, she was in Harvard then: 'Motherfucker, you wouldn't be where you are if they hadn't done what they did.'" Some people would be judgmental about having lunch with someone who was so closely involved with the Nazi Party. "You need anything?" We weren't going to take that shit. Said: 'The name ain't "man," it's "Leroy." It was horrible.". Quincy Jones facts: Music producer's age, wife, children, net - Smooth What memories. You really met Leni Riefenstahl? A brain aneurysm. ", "Yeah, I started shooting. And mine were huge.". And you assumed you'd become a gangster, too? "Life's an amazing journey, isn't it, man?" Who Is Jolie Jones Levine's Husband, Any Children Together? 7. They had three girls and my father, and they were light-skinned, high yellow, straight hair.".
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