portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Friday, March 15, 2019

Move over Mr Myers! 
A classic from film scores (Sydney Lumet's 'The Pawnbroker', Woody Allen's 'Take The Money and Run' and of course the shagadelic Austin Powers movie themes: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers' Goldmember (2002) and Alan 'Fluff' Freeman used it for his radio programme on BBC for years and Bossa Nova beatniks loved it all over the world. Jones maintains he wrote it in twenty minutes
Quincy is a legend quite simple 

Born on this day: March 14, 1933 - Twenty-eight time Grammy Award winning musician, producer and arranger Quincy Jones (born Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. in Chicago, IL). Happy 86th Birthday, “Q”!!!
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