Quincy Jones Interview

Agree with onhighway61

I’ll pick Hendrix or the Beatles over Quincy Jones any day. 

+1! @geoffkait The greatness of the Beatles is in the subtleties of their performance and even more obviously in the brilliance of their compositions.  Hendrix played a helluva hot axe, but Quincy was more of a producer than performer.  I thought of Prince as the successor to Hendrix's brilliance of speed and ingenuity. JMHO

I read that interview yesterday and considered posting it here.  Thanks for doing so.
I checked out the tune that he mentioned in the beginning (the great BIllie Jean ripoff).  I think I have a good ear and a clear understanding of copyright law but I just don't hear the similarity (just as with the Robin Thicke/Marvin Gaye case).  I haven't checked the Giant Steps/Slonimsky claim yet.  I'm not sure everything he says in the interview is true but it is absolutely the most compelling thing I've read in ages.  What an amazing life he has had.  Wow!

Hendrix was an R&B/blues/rock player, so the prospect of doing a session with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown playing jazz could have easily been intimidating.

Jones said he met the Beatles in 1963/64.  His comments were that Paul was terrible bass player and Ringo couldn't play simple rhythms.  Paul later became a superb bass play and Ringo is Ringo (the perfect drummer for the Beatles), but early in their recording careers as instrumentalist they were nothing special.

Jones was there, were you their with him?