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You like Brazilian music.

Of music and criticism, I am your host, John Caramonica.

If I would sacrifice anything, come what might for the sake of having you near in spite of...

You are listening to Frank Sinatra, live at the Sands.

Sinatra at the Sands is the album.

This is an album that came out in 1966,

conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones passed away recently.

If you were not specifically familiar with the range of Quincy Jones's achievements,

we've got a hell of a conversation for you today.

David Marquesie from the New York Times Magazine is going to pop on and talk about a famous interview that he did with

Quincy a few years ago back when he was at New York Magazine. Quincy is maybe the only or was

the only living through line of the American Poplarian Music in the 1950s up through the 2010s and

2020s, truly a connector of people, someone who brought a tremendously high level of

musical discipline, complexity, and acumen into popular song, did a tremendous amount

to bridge contemporary black musical traditions with white audiences, someone who set a template

that most people are following in, even if they're not totally aware that they're following it.

I unfortunately never got to interview Quincy, but there's a telling moment towards the end of a

profile I wrote of the weekend, which is the first big weekend profile in 2015,

I believe, where he talks about meeting Quincy.

And this is when the weekend was just beginning to experiment with huge pop that sounded

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