The many historical moments - his partnerships with other musical icons, earliest jobs with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, and others, his stunning participation in film scoring and producing ( The Wiz, The Color Purple) - are film highlights. Jones and Hicks clearly give Quincy Jones his due. It's a daughter's prerogative to help establish her father's substantial legacy.
It's the filmmakers' choice, as is having Jones himself do the narration. The man's struggles - with a fraught childhood and a less-than-stable personal life in his adult years - are reflected upon, but not explored in-depth. And Quincy is without question a celebration. Rashida Jones and co-director Alan Hicks have filmed a celebration of the life of an extraordinary talent with an illustrious musical history and an intriguing personal life. The narration is primarily delivered by Quincy himself as he reflects on his successes, his failures, and the lifetime effects of an impoverished childhood and mentally ill mother. His personal life - three marriages, seven children, recurring physical challenges - is integrated with the musical history. In addition, he is the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award given by the Motion Picture Academy. He's the most Grammy-nominated musician in history with 79 he's won 27.
Jones' 70-year-plus career includes performing, composing (six Academy Award nominations for his film scores), orchestrating/arranging, producing (most famously Michael Jackson's Thriller video and Academy Award-nominated film The Color Purple), and mentoring young talent. A wide range of interviews and archival film footage, as well as extensive time spent with the subject as he is now, are at the heart of co-directors Rashida Jones' and Alan Hicks' very personal look at Quincy Jones in QUINCY.
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