Quincy’s Upcoming Book Signings
We are pleased to announce more dates for Quincy’s book signing events!
Quincy is continuing to promote his acclaimed coffee table book, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions. The next book signing will be taking place tomorrow, Thursday February 12th, at 7 p.m at Borders in Westwood. Moderating the book signing interview will be Geoff Boucher of the LA Times.
Other upcoming book signings include (additional details coming soon):
February 27th, 2009 Gardfield High School- Seattle, Washington
March 18th, 2009 Dallas, Texas
March 19th, 2009 The South By Southwest Music Conference- Austin, Texas
Moderating the Seattle book signing will be Carver Gayton, who like Quincy, is also a Garfield High School alumni. Carver Gayton is also a prominent figure in his home state of Washington where he is the former Executive Director of the Northwest African American Museum, Washington state employment-security commissioner, Boeing executive, FBI agent, and longtime educator.
Below is a question-and-answer clip of Quincy on his Northern California swing of his promotional tour, where Q stopped at Book Passage in Corte Madera, north of San Francisco, on December 17. Present at the event were Carlos Santana, producer Narada Michael Walden and folk legend Taj Mahal. Santana had the honor of introducing Q, calling him “the Duke Ellington of our time.” Quincy fielded questions from Raoul Goff, publisher and CEO of Insight Editions, a division of Palace Press, which published Q’s book. You can watch a portion of that interview below, courtesy of MarinLocalMusic.com via YouTube.
Just saw the PBS program about ancestry and African DNA….tracing ancestry and noted that you are a descendant of Needham Lanier. I don’t know if you are aware of this yet, but the Lanier family were musicians to the kings and queens of France and England in the 16th century, and rubbed shoulders with the likes of W. Shakespeare and intermarried with the Bassanos who were famed painters and musicians and poets. Needham is a descendant of Sampson Lanier who married a Washington in Va. It isn’t surprising that you have become the great musician that you have become. It’s in your genes.
Thomas Lanier Williams, “Tennesee Williams,” the playwright,also comes out of this gene pool as do many other artists and musicians down through the decades.