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The Augusta News-Review - January 8,1976 -1
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Ry Stan Raines
QUINCY JONES:
Body Plus Soul Equals Success
They call him “Q” but his
name is Quincy Delight Jones,
Jr. and although he plays
trumpet and a few other
instruments, his real
instrument is the orchestra.
This man, Mr. “Q” is one of
the leading Black
arranger/composers in music.
His basic background is jazz
but as an arranger/composer he
is involved in all types of
music.
Quincy Jones was bom in
Chicago in 1933 and lived
there until he was 10 years old
at which time his family moved
to Bremerton, Washington. His
father played guitar and
trumpet but only when he had
time. He worked in the
shipyard there and this kept
him both, quite busy and tired.
After a short stay in
Bremerton, the family moved
to Seattle where Quincy got
the music bug. He began
playing the trumpet at age 12
or 13.
To earn pocket money
Quincy used to babysit for
Joseph Pole, a Navy trombone
player. While babysitting he
would get a chance to read his
books and charts and this
really helped “Q” to get
started.
Later he joined a band
headed by Bumps Blackwell.
Ray Charles was in the band
and showed young Quincy
more about music than one
could imagine.
The Northwest Jazz Mecca
at that time was the Palomar
Theater in Seattle and all the
good bands came there. Quincy
used to sneak in and listen and
watch. There were several ways
to sneak in but Quincy’s most
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used way was to carry in one
of the musician’s horns. He
could always do this because
someone always had a baritone
sax which is both big and
heavy in the case and most
musicians would gladly seek
help in carrying it. Quincy
made friends with many of the
musicians due to this and
mainly because he would
“bug them to death”. He
became a very good friend of
Billy Eckstine who also taught
him a lot. Os course he played
in the band at high school and
in graduating he received a
scholarship to the Berklee
College of Music (which at that
time was called the Schillinger
House). Here he was 19 years
old, in Boston, eager to play
and eager to learn. He did very
well in school and later joined
Lionel Hampton’s band... He
quit in 1953 to go out on his
own. For three years he
scuffled around New York
writing for James Moody.
Count Basie, Ray Anthony
and Tommy Dorsey to name a
few. Yes he was still young and
had learned an awful lot
especially in Hamp's band. In
fact it was during his days with
Hamp that Monk Montgomery
(Wes Montgomery’s brother)
played the First Fender Bass
ever made and this in itself
changed music b aging it up to
where it is today. It not only
helped jazz, it helped to make
Rock popular. (Can you
imagine a rock group of today
with string bass instead of
electric fender bass?)
Quincy’s musical abilities
became known throughout the
U.S. and soon he had his own
big band which is still on top
today. He was soon writing
musical scores for movies and
plays. He has played just about
everywhere. In fact they
played in Pakistan where the
people had never seen trumpets
or trombones before. They
didn’t even know who Louis
Armstrong was or Jimmie
Lunceford. Scuffling has been
a part of Quincy and while
writing and composing for so
many people he formed several
of his own publishing
companies which did well for
awhile. Finally getting rid of all
the publishing companies, he
got a job with Mercury records
through Irving Green, his
friend. There he became a
businessman and a good one
at that.
In a year he was Vice
President (Irving owned the
company and was President). It
was here that “Q” learned the
music business backwards and
forwards.
Mercury merged with Philips
of Holland. This was an eight
billion dollar a year company
now. He took executive
courses and he remained with
the company for seven years.
The job was fine but Quincy
still longed to write and
arrange. Irving Green did let
him take a break every once in
a while to write music. It was
such a break in 1963 in which
Quincy wrote “Mirage”, and
the score for the
“Pawnbroker”.
Qver the next two and one
half years he wrote “The
Slender Thread” and “Walk
Don’t Run”. It was after
writing “Walk Don’t Run” that
he made up his mind to leave
Mercury and write and play for
the movies. In the next seven
years he wrote 52 scores. He
had been offered one million
dollars to remain with Mercury
for 20 years but music was
calling and he didn’t like being
behind a desk and thus in
leaving he did what was best
because he made much more
than a million. Quincy Jones
loves and always will remember
his roots and his neonle. In this
year’s Bicentennial
celebration, Quincy is writing a
score yet untitled. The theme
will be based on the memory
of the Black experience from
1510 through Demarvisi and
Nat Turner, through Malcolm
X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. at
43 a musical giant and he is
still playing the changes
while proving that Body plus
Soul = SUCCESS.
Singer Margie Alexander
Now On Her Own
By Audrey Frazier
Recording star Margie
Alexander is determined to
gain success on her own.
Formerly with artist Clarence
Carter, Ms. Alexander is now a
free agent who feels she is on
the road to success.
“We are going to make it. 1
mean it, we are going to make
it,” stated Ms. Alexander.
Backing Ms. Alexander is her
band “Suede” from Willington,
N.C. “They are really good and
all are sweet guys,” she stated.
Their band leader is Frank
Bown. Also an Augustan,
Robert Doyle, plays lead guitar
for the group.
Ms. Alexander began her
career in Atlanta working at
the Club 400. She performed
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I National Educator
To Conduct Seminar
Dr Samuel M. Nabrit,
national educator, is guest
consultant, for the Paine
College Faculty Management
Seminar convening Jan. 7-8.
The theme for the seminar is
“College Governance.”
Other program participants
representing Paine College are
Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr.,
president of the college; Dr.
Brown and Dymally to Address
Black Press Workshop
Washington--Lieutenant
Governors George L. Brown of
Colorado and Mervyn Dymally
of California will address the
Mid-Winter Workshop of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association - Black Press of
America - on Friday evening,
Jan. 23, at Frenchman’s Reef
Holiday Inn on St. Thomas of
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The announcement of their
addresses was made this week
by Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
president of NNPA and
editor-publisher of the San
Francisco Sun-Reporter/Metro
-Reporter.
Brown and Dymally, the
first Black lieutenant governors
in nearly a century, will
address the closing banquet of
the four-day workshop which
opens on the evening of Jan.
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there for three years. She was
recommended to sing lead for
Clarence Carter by disc jockey,
Johnny Persons, and was hired
without an audition. “He hired
me immediately without an
audition because Persons had
given me such a high
recommendation. Carter felt 1
was good enough to invest in
so he took me into his studio
and 1 recorded ‘Can I Be Your
Main Thing.”
Two years later Ms.
Alexander recorded “Keep on
Searching”. After this she was
out of Carter’s contract.
Originally from Carrollton,
Ga., Ms. Alexander will begin
recording sessions in >ate
January. She plans to record a
single first and then an album.
Raymond Bard, special
assistant to the president for
Academic Planning and
Programs and Dr. Canute
Richardson, vice president for
Administrative Affairs.
Dr. Nabrit is a native of
Georgia with 23 years of
educational service at Atlanta
University, and served as
president of Texas Southern
21 and ends on the 24th.
The workshop discussions
will be relieved by picknicking,
swimming, fishing and a round
of receptions starting at the
mansion of Governor Cyril
King.
Other highlights of the
workshop, says Dr. Goodlett,
will be an address by
Commissioner Benjamin L.
Hooks of the Federal
Communications Commission;
panel discussion on the “Role
of Journalism Schools in
Developing New Professionals”
by Dean Lionel C. Barrow of
Howard’s School of
Communications; Samuel
Adams, William Allen White
School of Journalism,
University of Kansas.
And Jay T. Harris, Medill
School of Journalism,
Both she feels, will do very
well.
A Libra, Ms. Alexander now
lives in Atlanta. She plans to
continue travelling and will
perform in South Georgia,
Durham, Willington and
Atlanta after leaving Augusta.
When asked her feelings
about performing in Augusta
Ms. Alexander stated “I love
performing in Augusta. This is
my second Christmas here. I
have performed here several
times during the year 1975.”
She also stated that, “1
appreciate Augusta for digging
me enough to purchase my
records. Without them there
would be no me.”
I University in Houston. In
1956, Dr. Nabrit was
I appointed by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower to a six-year
term on the National Science
Board.
During the administration of
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
1 he was appointed to a
• four-year term on the Atomic
1 Energy Commission.
Northwestern University;
Charles Hobson, director of
Mass Communications at Clark
College; Dr. William Kearney,
chairman, Mass Media Arts,
Hampton Institute; and Dr.
Armstead S. Pride, head of the
department of journalism at
Lincoln University of Missouri.
Discussions of newspaper
circulation building, new
approaches to newspaper
management, innovative
advertising salesmanship, and
new approaches to news and
feature writing and editing will
be chaired respectively by
Garth Reeves, Miami Times;
Kenneth Drew, New York
Voice; John B. Smith, Atlanta
Inquirer; and Louis Martin,
Chicago Daily Defender.
Sessions on the “Role of
Black Executives in Corporate
White America,” and the
“Black Business Community
and the Black Press - Partners
in Economic Progress,” will
complete the workshop
program.
Participating in these
discussions will be: Dr.
Berkeley G. Burrell, present of
the National Business League;
C. Mack Higgins, assistant
administrator Small Business
Administration; George
• Norford, senior vice president
of Westinghouse; Samuel J.
Cornelius, deputy director,
Office of Minority Business
Enterprise. Jesse Hill president,
Atlanta Life; Ms. Brenda
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**Angola” " Continued from page 1
(FNLA) and National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola (UNITA), as South Africa, the U.S., which is seen as
generally supportive of South Africa, becomes militarily ,nvo
in defense of South African interests and, indeed, quite possibly,
of South Africa itself. . .
South Africa, in its last-ditch efforts to maintain its own
survival, is determined to prevent what it surely perceives as a
“hostile” movement (MPLA) from gaining power in Angola, ano
to eliminate the opposition forces in neighboring Namibia by
capturing SWAPO (the liberation movement in Namibia, illegally
occupied by South Africa) guerillas in Angola. These activities,
carried out under the pretext of protecting South African
holdings in the Ruacana hydreolectric project in southern Angola,
serve to illustrate the serious threat to international peace which
South Africa poses.
The U.S. posture on the same side as South Africa cannot help
but further harm U.S. relations with the independent,
majority-ruled African states, in which 73% of all direct American
investment in Africa south of the Sahara and three-fourths of its
trade now occurs.
It is further alarming that the U.S. has repeatedly attacked the
intervention of the Soviet Union as a threat to peace, but has
been silent on South Africa - the only intervening power
reported to be actually occupying portions of Angolan territory!!
The Administration has apparantely failed to give ample
consideration to the likely domestic implications of its
involvement in an African war on the side of South Africa. The
American public, in particular, the Black community, will not sit
idly by as the Administration attempts militarily to involve this
country in support of the interests of the White, minority regime
in South Africa.
The Administration has also failed to learn the important
lessons of the Vietnam experience. A nationalist movement that
has fought for independence for years and that has been aided in
that struggle by the Soviet Union, in this case, MPLA, rarely
accepts Soviet domination when victory is achieved. Despite a
long history of support for liberation movemens in Africa, there
are no Soviet satellites on the continent. Therefore, it is specious
to argue that the U.S. intervened in Angola to meet a “Soviet
challenge.” Moreover, in view of reports that larger Soviet
shipments to MPLA may have begun only AFTER a U.S. decision
significantly to increase its involvement last summer, serious
questions must be raised about the basic rationale of U.S. policy
that the U.S. intervened only in response to the Soviet Union.
The Senate of the Q.S. cannot be too strongly commended for
its strong vote on December 19 to bar funds in the Defense
Appropriations Bill for use in the Angolan civil war. The House of
Representatives will consider the same matter when it reconvenes
next session. It is a priority concern that the American people
convey their views on U.S. involvement in Angola to their
Congressmen before the new session begin on January 19th.
It is also important that the Administration be made aware of
the public’s concern with respect to U.S. Angola policy.
Accordingly, I would like to reiterate some of the key suggestions
made by the Congressional Black Caucus on this issue. These
recommendations include the following actions by the 'U.S.
Government:
1) Cease immediately all military-related actions by the U.S.
Government: direct, to any parties fighting in Angola, and
withdraw its request for financing of additional military and
related assistance;
2) Urge a ceasefire among all parties concerned;
) Use its good offices to reach an agreement among
non-Angolan powers involved, directly or indirectly, that they
will end their intervention;
4) Urge the Angolan factions to find an immediate, political
solution;
5) Urge all countries to await the results of the forthcoming
meetings of the OAU for further guidelines with respect to
Angola;
6) Commit the U.S. to substantial economic and rehabilitation
assistance to whatever Angolan government is recognized by the
OAU;
7) Make it clear to the South African Government, as we have
to the Soviet Union, that its intervention is a threat to
international peace;
8) Emphasize to the Soviet Union that American public
reaction to its intervention in Angola is bound to affect support
for its future economic relations with the U.S.; and
9) Report to the Congress on the implication of these
recommendations and keep all interested Members of Congress
fully advised with respect to U.S. policy and involvement in
Angola.
Joyce, legislative
representative, Gulf Oil.
The workshop will conclude
with an awards ceremony
during which NNPA plaques
will be presented to 24
business firms that sponsor
merit awards or journalism
scholarships.
Other leading participants in
the workshop will be: Howard
B. Woods, NNPA vice president
and editor-publisher, St. Louis
Sentinel; John H. Sengstacke,
founder of NNPA and
editor-publisher of Sengstacke
Newspapers; Ariel Melchior,
Sr., publisher of the Daily
News of the Virgin Islands and
workshop host; Mrs. Ruth
Washington, publisher, Los
Angeles Sentinel; Longworth
M. Quinn, editor-publisher,
Michigan Chronicle; Mrs.
Dorothy Leavell, publisher,
Chicago New Observer, NA.
Sweets, managing editor, St.
Louis American; Ms. Lucile
Bluford, editor, Kansas City
Call; Jerrel W. Jones, publisher,
Milwaukee Courier; Dr. Milton
A. Reid, publisher, New
Journal and Guide; and Gene
Liss, advertising director, St.
Louis Argus.
Greetings will be brought to
the workshop group by Gov.
Cyril King of the Virgin
Islands; Dr. G. James Fleming,
professor-emeritus of Morgan
State Univeristy; Stanley S.
Scott, assistant administrator
of the Agency for International
Development; Mr. Sengstacke; ‘
H. Minton Francis, deputy
assistant secretary of Defense;
John Calhoun, special assistant
to President Ford; Mrs. Mary
Ellen Strong of Kellogg;
Theolodore A. Serrill,
executive vice president,
National Newspaper
Association; Eddie N. Williams,
president, Joint Center for
Political Studies; and
Commissioner Colston A.
Lewis of the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission.
Alumni
Chapter
To Form
AU persons that have
attended Savannah State
CoUege are to meet with the
CoUege President, Dr. Prince
Jackson Jr., to organize an
alumni chapter here Sunday,
January 11, at 6 p.m. at the
Vocational School on White
Road.
It’s very important that you
come and find out about the
status of the college.