Comments on: q speaks to Fong-Torres tonight in s.f. http://www.quincyjones.com/archives/1205 The Official Website of Quincy Jones Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kavin ross http://www.quincyjones.com/archives/1205/comment-page-1#comment-465 kavin ross Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:01 +0000 http://www.quincyjones.com/?p=1205#comment-465 I received my copy of your book over the weekend. Your publisher fedex it to me. I was so excited by the book. It is gorgeous, and beautifully laid out. I am truly enjoying it. For Christmas, I am buying copies for my parents who too are fans of yours. But as I read through the pages and look at those lovely pics. It just brought me to tears. Now I am a grown man, and I could not understand why I was drippin from the face. The pages not only captured your history but mine as well. Because I grew up on your music and in my younger years I wanted to be a composer and producer just like you. When Listen Up and Back On The Block came out I figured that I could do the same thing on a local level. Combining local musicians with young and yet to be musicians together for a project. Everybody like the idea but one thing held it up MONEY. One day I will completed that task. Currently I haved worked with the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and the Deborah Brown Community School to get the ball rolling. It is really hard to get the kids from the inner city to get involved beacuse you have a piano gutiar or even a violin competing with a DJ's turntable. What a truly amazing journey that you have traveled. Today I brought your book so that the children at the charter school could see for themselves your body of work. To see these kids eyes light up as they carefully flipped through the pages of your book, it was a magic moment for me. I will post the pics so you can see the kids. I am looking foward to the interview. J. Kavin Ross I received my copy of your book over the weekend. Your publisher fedex it to me. I was so excited by the book. It is gorgeous, and beautifully laid out. I am truly enjoying it. For Christmas, I am buying copies for my parents who too are fans of yours. But as I read through the pages and look at those lovely pics. It just brought me to tears. Now I am a grown man, and I could not understand why I was drippin from the face. The pages not only captured your history but mine as well. Because I grew up on your music and in my younger years I wanted to be a composer and producer just like you. When Listen Up and Back On The Block came out I figured that I could do the same thing on a local level. Combining local musicians with young and yet to be musicians together for a project. Everybody like the idea but one thing held it up MONEY. One day I will completed that task. Currently I haved worked with the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and the Deborah Brown Community School to get the ball rolling. It is really hard to get the kids from the inner city to get involved beacuse you have a piano gutiar or even a violin competing with a DJ’s turntable. What a truly amazing journey that you have traveled. Today I brought your book so that the children at the charter school could see for themselves your body of work. To see these kids eyes light up as they carefully flipped through the pages of your book, it was a magic moment for me. I will post the pics so you can see the kids. I am looking foward to the interview.

J.
Kavin Ross

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