Name: Quincy Jones On Ray Charles, Count Basie & Frank Sinatra | David Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Quincy Jones On Ray Charles, Count Basie & Frank Sinatra | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-04. Transcript available.

how you doing snoop snoop dog is here and he'll be singing your music later is
that right i saw him
here yeah because he's st louis brother is that right how long have you known
him long time before
electricity wow that is a long time no i love snoop dog i used to live in st
louis st louis
a little bit when i was young yeah my grandmother so but he's a beautiful man
is that where you were
born in st louis no chicago in chicago and uh what did you do as a kid in chicago
my father was a
carpenter for the most notorious black gangsters in chicago the jones boys and
i wanted to be a
gangster all my life all i wanted saw with dead bodies and machine guns and stogies
in the 30s
really piles of money all my life till i was 10 years old you know yeah and
then capone ran that
gang out of town because they made too much money and uh to mexico and my
father got my brother out
of the barber shop and took us on the trailway bus to the northwest and i we
broke in an army we were
gangsters out there too at 11 years old broke into an armory eating pies and
saw a piano and i went back
to that piano and i knew i'd do that the rest of my life is that right at 11
years old it saved my life
that's crazy um and again what did you what did your father do for the gang
when he was a master
carpenter carpenter built their homes and everything but we were all joneses
and so he
didn't want to be associated you know but they were they were incredible i'm
doing a movie on that
yeah that's a fascinating air i was going to be in the movie yeah yeah and and
and was your father also
musical in addition to being no not at all that uh alex haley tracked traced
the roots back right uh to
huguenots the seventh court musicians for henry the fifth second and seven for
louis the 14th i mean
that's the way it rose you know and then i found out jane thomas my cousin
it's true it's a linear family from the uh uh plantation in the bovine in mississippi
at one time i lived next door to alex trebek
let's talk about other people you've uh known in music the piano was that's
what that's what
caused it to blossom the seed blossomed when you found the piano but you you
can play every instrument
right and after that i got i knew that was what i'd do the rest of my life and
i stayed after school
and i'm going to play susaphone tuba baritone french horn trombone so i could
be up front with the
majorettes and the martian band i was practical you know the compass were way
in the back man so but i wanted
to play trumpet and i finally did and i went with lionel hampton at 19. and and
and and when you have
the uh uh that special uh personal intimate calling what instrument do you are
you drawn to is it still
the piano no yes it is now because i have two brain operations i can't play
trumpet anymore but
orchestration and arranging is my my core skill and composing i did 40 movies
and 14 tv shows tell me
about working with uh count basie how did that happen oh no and ray charles you
you know all of
these guys i met ray charles when i was 14. he left florida and uh somebody
took a string to get him
farthest away as he could be and that's seattle seattle was on fire during the
world war ii you know
because the east western pacific theater and uh he was 16 but he's like 100
years older than me he had
two pair of shoes two suits a record player two girlfriends man i i was still i
was still living
at home i said that's that's my man you know but he was like 100 years older
than me and at 16 he
he struck you as being that much older and and you knew career together yeah we
did in the heat of the
night we did symphonic things and he said i want to own three airplanes back
then we didn't know who
we wanted to be you know and every day we used to say not one drop of my self-worth
depends on your
acceptance to me you had to survival you know this is count basie and frank sinatra
and you worked with
both of these gentlemen like this is from 1964 and it's your arrangement of fly
me to the moon that
frank recorded is that yeah they played it on the moon yeah oh that's right
with buzz aldrin yeah man oh
man what is going on here you guys just taking a probably taking a smoke break
for god's sake he said
he said tell us every night to base and i guys live every day like it's your
last one day you'll be right
no disputing that i didn't have a chance between ray charles of sinatra man
then you couldn't i
couldn't win this is uh 1971 this is uh yourself ray charles that's merv griffin
on the merv griffin
show right there yeah yeah and uh tonight uh when we come back uh snoop gog
will come out and he's
is he doing something from from this right here okay i was just i was look at
him i was just backstage
and there's a guy back there and i said hello hi how you doing and the guy says
oh hello mr leno
i said are you i've been on the air for 30 years i'm not mr leno exactly oh my
god
i'm sorry conan and i'm so sorry okay this is gonna be something our next guest
is one of rap's most
popular artists and tonight he's performing his version of the quincy jones hit
get the funk out
of my face out of my face and it's featured featured on the new q soul bassa
nostril
uh come on everybody get up come on come on put your hands together like this
one time come on like this one
time yeah we came to have a good time tonight all in the lover and all in the
name of quincy jones we're
gonna do it to you like this come on you don't like my music you
don't have to use it
you know what i'm in the trunk with the funk bounce to your jump freak freak
beat beat beat beat me and do the
bump old school but oh so cool i make you feel so good like you're eating a
plate of soul food
uncle q let me show you how i do from the bebop to hip hop you know that it's
true big schnoop all in
the loop ball in the boot leaving the bass bleed my case trip this up out of my
face get out of my face
sing it well get the ball come on out of my face get the ball out of my face
say what get the ball
out of my face get your ball out of my face get the ball out of my face you
know what you don't like my
music you don't have to use it oh you don't like my music well then you don't
have to use it babble
you don't have to play it you don't have to say it somebody scream
oh boy it's just me and my boy we lay it low on the floor trying to get it from
the go
oh no slow mo because three more at the door let them in now baby let the games
begin we got
keys and notes claps and lines and g's and lokes raps and rhymes i i do minds
what a hit of it
and do i bang on them here just a little flick you can't blame me jerry rolling
stones and quincy
jones they came to me and said big schnook dawg give me a taste and tell these
to get the up out
my face well what do you mean well what do you mean so clean so mean so
gangster lean the greatest the
latest you hate us can't fade us i see it gonna continue because the phone ain't
in you like my music
you don't use it you don't like my music then you don't have to use it put your
hands together like
this one time oh you know what
oh come on come on i'll get the phone up out of my face get the phone out of my
face
up out of my face get the phone out of my face get the phone out of my face get
the phone up out of my
face get the phone up out of my face yo ho yeah yeah yes sir thank you
everybody thank you
snoop you know mr jones snoop jock quincy jones ladies and gentlemen here it is
soul bossa nostra
bossa nostra what do you say bossa nostra bossa nostra that's it thanks for
watching good night everybody
now stay tuned for craig ferguson this is alan carter speaking good night
everybody