Thanks for your perspective Bdp24, but REALLY, the totality of Quincy's work corny? You protest too much. We are of the same generation and love a lot of the same stuff but I would NEVER say that Quincy Jones is anything less than a totally serious and accomplished music guy over the past 60 plus years, come on man, you can't be serious! A lot of his comments in that article are one off anecdotal stories and have to be taken in that context.
His comments about the Beatles were on their early musicianship, not their writing, at least that was my take. It takes time for good things to evolve. Or to put it another way, for cream to rise to the top. I can't tell you how many albums I have produced by this guy that I didn't even know about until I started to pay attention to such things. Sinatra at the Sands Live, check it out but if you think Sinatra is "corny" then maybe you have a point :).
I agree, not all today's music sucks, did Quincy actually say that it did? I don't think that he did. He made references to some of the current crop doing good work, Bruno Mars as a popular example. The bottom line is as it always has been, most music is mediocre at best as will be judged by the test of time.
