The celebrated music producer, arranger and composer's career spanned seven decades. Jones was the production whiz behind ...

(SOUNDBITE OF QUINCY JONES' "SOUL BOSSA NOVA") MARTIN: That is "Soul Bossa ... WATSON: Ray Charles also taught Jones the basics of arranging. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) JONES: From ...

“A young arranger-composer who can write modern, but with an understanding of the basic, timeless spirit ... with the Mercury release Big Band Bossa Nova. It included the future staple, and ...

Many of the selections on this album (all of them produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder) represented the basic inspiration and major ... who had left Brazil to sing Bossa Nova ...

I want to focus on improving basic services like street repairs ... musician for many years and play flute in jazz, bossa nova and Brazilian Choro settings. I am also a competent pandeiro player ...

Quincy Jones has been one of the most influential, behind-the-scenes figures in my life, a man I knew of but never fully appreciated until recently. His philosophy on music distills down to a simple ...

As a musician, a producer, a composer and an executive, Quincy Jones created hits. But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this ...

A KISS FOR BRAZIL finds primo jazz singer Karrin Allyson in a blissful, 'kiss-full' bossa nova style and more at Birdland ...