4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Listen up! When Quincy Jones speaks he may be imparting Yoda-like wisdom or talking about his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, or Hal Ashby, to name just a few. His film credits range from The Pawnbroker and In Cold Blood to The Color Purple and the must-see documentary Keep on Keepin’ On. As a musician, arranger, film composer, and entrepreneur he is without peer, and arguably the coolest guy on the planet. Leonard and Jessie are clearly in awe.
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0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by a movie I haven't yet seen, so I'm going to read this |
0:05.3 | commercial just as it was handed to me. Get ready to be transported to the birthplace of one of the |
0:11.1 | most powerful monster myths of all time, in Kong Skull Island. When a scientific expedition to |
0:18.5 | an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, |
0:22.7 | a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man. |
0:28.3 | Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brees Larson, John Goodman, and John C. Riley star |
0:34.5 | in the thrilling and original new adventure that reveals the untold story of how Kong became king. |
0:41.7 | Be sure to get your tickets now. Kong, Skull Island is in theaters March 10th. |
0:48.3 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
0:57.2 | Hi, I'm Leonard Malton. |
0:58.5 | And I'm Jesse Malton. |
0:59.9 | And we're sitting here with somebody who has lived so many lives. |
1:03.6 | Truly. |
1:04.3 | That's what it feels like. |
1:05.2 | He puts cats to shame. |
1:06.9 | That's right. |
1:07.7 | Now, I grew up listening to memorizing the record album you guys remember record |
1:15.0 | albums called sinatra at the sands flower to the moon arranged and conducted by our guest quincy jones |
1:23.4 | whereas my daughter i well so i'm a jazz nut uh mostly because my dad informed me, probably at birth that that was what was going to happen. |
1:32.9 | It wasn't a discussion so much as it was, you love jazz. |
1:35.6 | Congratulations. |
1:37.2 | So while I listen to all of that and looking through some of the stuff you've done, it's honestly overwhelming. |
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