From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Musician and composer Quincy Jones has worked with the greats,

Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, and many more.

But his ambition didn't end there.

Since 15 years old, I was addicted to films.

I just spent play hooky and go spend 11 cents a movie

down in Skid Row in Seattle

and go see every movie.

And after a while, I could recognize

the impact and influence of Alfred Newman

at 20th Century Fox or Victor Young at Paramount

or Stanley Wilson at RKO.

Jones composed more than 30 film scores before becoming a producer.

Now 85, he tells us about breaking into movie music at a time when Hollywood didn't hire

black composers and making Will Smith into a huge star.

Philmaker Alan Hicks joins Jones to talk about the new Netflix documentary, Quincy,

which he directed with Jones's daughter, Rashida.

And in a bonus banter, we talked to journalist and author Keech Hege,

whose new book, The King of Content,

follows the long and checkered career of Mogul Sumner Redstone,

whose media empire is at a crossroads.

But first on the news banter, troubled times for the big broadcasters.

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