Quincy Jones - The Dude [48]

Title: Quincy Jones - The Dude
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1981, R&B, Funk, Chicago, Illinois 10/26
Matrix #: NR-52 (Nautilus SuperDiscs, Half-Speed Mastered, under license from A&M)
Condition: Ex (LM) | Members: Quincy J (33' - 24') | Producer: Quincy Jones
Cultural Facts: [48]

1. Breaking In for Pie: At 11, Quincy Jones and a group of boys in Bremerton, Washington broke into the local armory recreation center to steal lemon meringue pie and ice cream. Wandering off on his own, he found a small room with an old upright piano and started playing it. He later said that moment turned him away from the gangster life he was headed for.
2. Ray Charles Taught Him Braille Music: In Seattle, a 14-year-old Jones met a 16-year-old Ray Charles, who had moved up from Florida and was already working clubs. Charles showed him how to write music in Braille and talked arranging with him, and the two teenagers stayed friends for more than 50 years.
3. Named After a Seized Film: "Ai No Corrida" started as a 1980 song by Chaz Jankel of Ian Dury's Blockheads. The title comes from the Japanese name of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses, a movie so explicit that U.S. Customs seized it before its New York Film Festival screening.