Product Description

Composer, record, TV and film producer, arranger, instrumentalist, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur - Quincy Jones has done it all. In his 50-year career, he has won 26 Grammy® awards and an Emmy®, earned seven Oscar® nominations and helped ignite the career of Michael Jackson. AMERICAN MASTERS® takes an all- access look at this remarkable star of the world stage. Narrated by Harry Belafonte, QUINCY JONES: IN THE POCKET features interviews with friends and contemporaries such as former President Bill Clinton, Maya Angelou and Sidney Poitier. This candid profile also includes behind-the-scenes footage of the historic "We Are the World" recording session, in-studio clips of Frank Sinatra and other exclusive visual material.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104962 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-05-21
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.com
Ninety minutes seems insufficient to cover the remarkable career of Quincy Jones, but this documentary, broadcast in 2001 as part of PBS's American Masters series, does a pretty fair job of it. Over the course of some five decades, the man they call "Q" has run the musical gamut: playing trumpet with Lionel Hampton, producing everyone from Lesley Gore ("It's My Party"--yes, it's true) and Michael Jackson (Thriller) to Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, arranging and producing "We Are the World" and every style from jazz to hip-hop, and composing scores for countless movies and TV shows. Using interviews, photos, film clips, etc., In the Pocket manages to address all of it, while also documenting Jones's two failed marriages, an aneurysm, a nervous breakdown, and other lowlights. Harry Belafonte narrates, and many luminaries are on hand to celebrate the life and work of one of the most prolific and respected musicians of our time. --Sam Graham

Customer Reviews

A Deep Video Insight into the Greatest Maestro!
Please buy this video if you want to have a delicate and sensitive overview on Quincy Jones' career. When the film ends, it leaves us asking for more. And there is a lot more about Quincy Jones' diversified output. The program shows all the diversified mind of Jones and his insight to jazz and popular music.

The Great Man
Excellent. Fans of good music, u have to buy that DVD. Quincy made a very good job. U don't know? You have to watch it !!! ; )

Quality Five
when you talk about all -around Artists there are so few Ever that have done as much as this Brother has throughout His Great Career.Producing for a whose who,the First soul brother to do scores out in Hollywood some only 40 years&change ago&also writing for tv,etc... I mean the Man has been arranging,producing,conducting,etc.. for so long&yet He stays fresh&on the Pulse. you get a strong first hand account on how many lives He has touched&changed with the power of His Genius.His Pressence has been felt by so many&will continue for Generations to come.