クインシー・ジョーンズのインスタグラム(quincyjones) - 1月9日 04時09分

Sometimes, all you need is someone who believes in you. For me, one of the first names that comes to mind is the legendary Bobby Tucker. At the time in 1948, he was Billie Holiday's musical director/piano player, & even though he could've chosen older/more experienced jazz cats, he asked us scrawny little kids in the Bumps Blackwell Band to back up Lady Day at the Eagle's Auditorium in Seattle. After standing onstage with her in complete awe, Tuck threatened to make us buy our own tickets to the show if we didn't start playing, so we got our act together! ((:0)) Later that year, he hired me again when he came to town with Billy Eckstine...Eckstine was on Eddie & Nicole Barclay's label, Barclay Records, & he referred me to her when she was looking for an arranger to come write with Barclay in Paris. I went to work for Nicole for 3 months & I wound up staying for almost 5 years! During that time, I studied with the great Nadia Boulanger (who Lalo Schifrin told me about when I was on the State Department's Goodwill Tour with Dizzy). One day, I went to class (took Tuck with me) & we watched Nadia play a few bars of "Firebird." She was sharp as a razor & she told our class to clap the rhythms of the second violin...We started clapping & she stopped us & said "No, no. Ritardando!!! Stravinsky told me himself!" Tuck & I looked over at each other & we both had a look of "We are just two little raggedy mofos from Chicago & New Jersey...How did we get here?!" It was a moment of disbelief & pure gratitude all at once. I have to say, throughout that whole crazy journey, Tuck believed in me & gave me a chance...So, on what would've been your 95th birthday today, I just want to say thank you for sticking with me & giving me the purest gift of belief. Happy Birthday Tuck!! I know you're probably playing the piano loud & proud up there!! ((:0))

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