“At the age of 24, Quincy Jones arrived in Paris in 1957 to study with the great masters Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. But tuition was expensive for the son of a modest Chicago family...

His musical genius enabled him to finance his studies in a very stylish way. Quincy worked as an arranger, conductor and musician, notably in the Barclay studio.”

“In the 1920s, recording conditions were a real challenge for musicians !

Sound was captured by a simple bell and etched directly onto wax. To balance volumes, the most powerful instruments had to move further away(…)”

“So you haven’t heard about the birth of Scat ?

Legend has it that in 1926, during the recording of Heebie Jeebies,(…)”