GOOD MORNING: Quincy Jones and Ray Brown are building a music-recording studio. Jones explains it will not only be helpful in today's scene where “The film media and pop music are converging.
We also need a place to experiment" ... Jones requires his own studio, judging by the sked: He just completed “Mackenna's Gold" and “Italian Job" scores overseas, is here noting his fourth Sidney Poitier film, “Lost Man" ("Love of Ivy," “Heat of the Night," and “Slender Thread" preceded). “Man" will present a new type music, says Jones, because it's also Poitier in a new bag ...
He follows with another offbeat music score for an equally different film, “Carol & Bob & Ted & Alice" ... And Sidney Lumet paged Quincy last week to musick Tennessee Williams' “Seven Descents of Myrtle," which Gore Vidal will script. Lynn Redgrave, who appeared in Lumet's “Deadly Affair," will star. (Sister Vanessa was in his “Sea Gull," you recall) ... Quincy's hoping to do a filmusical -- not a B'way'er. He says, “The real medium is the screen."
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Today Quincy continues to need his own studios -- that's plural -- for all his creativity. He's just returned from London where he celebrated sharing his 76th birthday with Michael Caine. “We do it every year," Quincy beamed. “We're 'celestial twins'"
In London, Jones also met up with David Beckham. “He told me before EVERY soccer game they play the theme, 'Self-Preservation Society' I wrote for 'The Italian Job.'"
In Engand Jones also met with Paul McCartney, having known the Beatles since their beginnings. And he says he also talked the state of the current music business with Andrew Lloyd Webber. He told his conclusions to the House of Lords. “It's a mess." He's trying to “figure it out in the U.S. as well." He continued his travels, celebrating his birthday in Cairo. But, he reminded, his main global activity is his children's foundation.
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