Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990)

Unique legendary musicians, arrangers, composers, and producers provide intimate interviews with memories, sounds and music masters at exciting shows.

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Quincy Jones got married three times and got divorced, and his six children recently spent with their father. The 1990 documentary "Sounds: The Life of Quincy Jones" includes discussions about Quincy's difficult childhood, the mentally disabled mother, and a tense past scene with the child. This film also includes interviews with Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, and others who have claimed that Jones has influenced the creative talent of mass entertainment since 1950. In 1993, Jones founded African American popular music magazine Vibe Magazine. In 1995, he showed a lot of talent of his friends like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder (1950 -) and released Q's Jook Joint. This album is his 50th anniversary in the music industry.

In 1990, Quincy Jones Productions partnered with Time Warner and founded Quincy Jones Entertainment (QJE). The company signed 10 images with Warner Bros. and reached two transactions with NBC Productions. The television program "The Prince of Bel Air" was completed in 1990, but the producer at (in UPN) in the house later declined its earlier concept stage. Jones has produced a very successful fresh Prince Belair (found Will Smith), UPN's House, and Fox's Madtv, which is operated for 14 seasons. In the early 1990s, Jones began a big ongoing project called "evolution of black music". QJE also started a talk show every week with Jones' friends pastor Jesse Jackson as host.