Jan 27, 2008 · This is part of the Quincy Jones live at Budokan concert in 1981. Jerry is soloing over the tv theme of Ironside.

Oct 3, 2011 · Done in a high energy Count Basie style, and there's a bunch of Basie band members including Harry "Sweets" Edison on the trumpet solo, with Clark Terry, Ern...

Nov 21, 2004 · Quincy Jones has been very modest about his trumpet playing. He played in Dizzy's State Department band, and served as music director at age 22! I'm sure he was a functional soloist, but I doubt he would put himself in the catagory of Clark Terry!

He began playing around on the piano. That is when he realized that music was his calling. Shortly afterwards, Jones began playing the trumpet. Jones quickly became known for his prodigious trumpet skills, and by 18, he won a scholarship to the Berklee College of …

Nov 5, 2024 · When he was 12, Jones began playing trumpet at Bremerton’s Coontz Junior High. In 1947, after Jones’s father remarried, he moved his sons, his new wife, and her three children, to Seattle....

Jones had two brain surgeries, and after the second was warned to never play the trumpet again, because "if he blew a trumpet in the ways that a trumpet player must, the clip [a metal plate in his head that was implanted after his brain aneurysm] would come free and he would die".

Nov 4, 2024 · Jones played jazz trumpet. Quincy Jones described his time in Seattle for PBS' “American Masters” in 2021: "We had to play everything with school. We played Sousa.

Apr 19, 2013 · With humble roots tracing to Chicago's ghettos and later the segregated World War II-era housing in Bremerton, teen trumpeter Quincy Jones rose quickly through the ranks of Seattle's 1940s jazz scene.

Apr 12, 2021 · Four years after Ennio Morricone, another great trumpet-player-composer-arranger-producer-conductor passed away, the great Quincy Jones. Quincy was going to Berklee a few years before I did and the "Recording" band (as it was called in those days) did a LP of Quincy's music entitled "Jazz In The Classroom - A Tribute To Quincy Jones".

Jun 22, 2005 · While in junior high, begins studying trumpet and sings in a gospel quartet. He soon becomes a fixture in Seattle's clubs. Arrives with a scholarship to Boston's Schillinger House, later known as...