An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones’ career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, television producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including records, live performance, movies and television. Here pictured with Peggy Lee.Read more
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Swell Dames # 157 – Mary Ann McCall
A jazz vocalist with a bluesy tone, Mary Ann McCall sang with over half a dozen orchestras but rarely stayed anywhere for very long. She constantly bounced between bands, sometimes joining and rejoining the same orchestra several times. Well-liked by the jazz crowd, McCall achieved her greatest success in the late 1940s. Unfortunately, she developed a heroin addiction which led to her arrest and the collapse of her career in the early 1950s. She never managed to regain her popularity, and she retired from singing in the following decade. Read More



