Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

This is a very intelligent book: don't classify it with celebrities bios. It has an uncommon architecture, and it is very bright. Unlike other bios of the kind, there is no doubt it is also very true. It leaves you pondering the mystery of a young guy without parents, without education, without

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money, who wants, not only "to be a musician" like all our young neighbors, which is the easy part, but to learn how to write music and the secrets of orchestration. Quincy youth was much worse than if he had been abandoned, still he would show up at 5 in the morning t the house of anybody who would teach him music. I am very impressed by Quincy Jones, not just by his music, but by his courage and his intellectual ambition.

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