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A lineup including Laura Mvula and Jacob Collier revisited Jones’s spectacular output in a full-throttle concert that swung from disco to orchestral postbopOver half a century ago, Quincy Jones told an interviewer that he didn’t want to be the kind of jazz musician who grumbled approximately the predominance of pop music – he wanted to influence it. The Seattle-raised former trumpeter’s success at that lies in his spectacular six-decade output of movie scores, and disco anthems and jazz hits,production partnerships with stars from Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra to Ice T and Michael Jackson, and his pivotal role in the biggest-selling album ever: Jackson’s game-changing dance classic, or Thriller.
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Source: theguardian.com