Quincy Jones Interview

"All Things Must Pass" as good as at least half of the Beatle albums. "Cloud 9" and "Brainwashed" are also very strong. To me, John was the least compelling solo artist--although "Imagine" and "Instant Karma" as singles were tres cool. McCartney's first album, "Ram" and "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" were all good. I like "New" a bit as well as "Venus and Mars" but they are a bit kitchy.
Clearly each tempered the other's weaknesses.

No opinion one way or the other.  Just sharing recent news -

http://start.att.net/news/read/article/page_six-michael_jacksons_family_is_furious_with_quincy_jon-r...

And now this:

https://pitchfork.com/news/quincy-jones-apologizes-for-those-wild-interviews/?mbid=social_twitter

I’m impressed. A real apology... imagine that! As opposed to the half-apology with the big “but” at the end that we usually hear from celebrities. His music sounds better to me again, all of a sudden. Thanks for posting.

I'm not a big QJ fan, but he did some interesting things over the years. Check out "In The Heat of the Night" soundtrack, with Ray Charles. 

But he's wrong about the Beatles. Even drunk, I would never say such a thing. That stuff is hard to play well, even though it's deceptively simple. It's a lot more complex than it looks. He was right to apologize, but I think it was for the Jackson thing.