smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA - Quincy Jones was on campus yesterday as the third speaker in this year's Tate Lecture Series.

Jones treated SMU students and members of the Dallas community to a fast-paced question and answer forum in the afternoon and followed with an evening lecture in the form of a live interview moderated by Robert Wilonsky in McFarlin Auditorium.

The Tate audience greeted Jones with a standing ovation before he began telling his story of growing up in Chicago and then becoming a major international musical icon.

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA - University of Washington commencement speaker Quincy Jones urged thousands of graduates Saturday to travel the world, learn languages and take chances in life.

"On this day, I will mend a quarrel. I will search out a forgotten friend," he asked the graduates to repeat.

"I will dismiss a suspicion and replace it with trust."

The accomplished musician and producer shared his 75 years of wisdom at the UW's 133rd commencement ceremony under a sunny sky at Husky Stadium.

In doing so before about 4,100 graduates who attended, he recalled his childhood in Chicago, Bremerton and Seattle.

He passed on important lessons from being, at times,

United Press International - USA - The Northwest African American Museum announced its grand opening week will conclude with an event honoring Quincy Jones at the Seattle Paramount Theatre.

Jones is a famed record, TV and film producer, composer, conductor, instrumentalist and Seattle native.

He is to be awarded the NAAM Board of Directors' first Lifetime Achievement Award at a concert Sunday featuring performances by Carlos Santana, James Ingram, Ernestine Anderson, Siedah Garrett, Clarence Acox & the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra featuring jazz great Buddy Catlett, Steve Connell and Sekou, Laura "Piece" Kelley-Jahn, Ruby Bishop, and Juan Huey Ray and Sound of the Northwest.

KSBY - San Luis Obispo, CA, USA - Sexy singing group the Pussycat Dolls turned up the heat at L.A. Fashion Week last night, drawing front-row guests such as Dr. Dre, Sean "Puffy" Combs and Quincy Jones at their debut fashion show.

The music moguls and other stars attended the unveiling of the Pussycat Dolls' "...shhh" lingerie collection at Culver City's Smashbox Studios.

Combs said backstage he was friends with the burlesque-inspired group and came "in support."

Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin called the line's frilly, leopard-print, striped and sailor-themed lingerie "feminine and edgy."

She said the collection was inspired by punk-rock music and old-fashioned pinup girls.

The Pussycat Dolls closed the show

Hollywood Reporter - United States - Quite a number of celebrities may be popular and accomplished enough to be known by a single name. But is there anyone besides Quincy Jones who is instantly recognizable by a single letter? "Q" -- as he's known to his innumerable colleagues, friends and fans -- has built a career notable for almost superhuman levels of achievement, and those achievements have been duly celebrated:

He's won 27 Grammy Awards out of 79 nominations; he's an eight-time Oscar nominee; and he's the recipient of AMPAS' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Ivor Novello Special International Award for songwriting and composition, France's Legion d'honneur

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - The Northwest African American Museum's (NAAM's) Grand Opening week will culminate on March 16th with the Quincy Jones Extravaganza event at the historic Seattle Paramount Theatre in downtown Seattle. The 8:00 pm all-star concert features Grammy ward
winners Carlos Santana, James Ingram and Ernestine Anderson, and will honor Seattle native Quincy Jones with NAAM's Board of  Directors' first Lifetime Achievement Award.

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, TV producer, record company executive,television station owner, magazine founder, and multi-media entrepreneur. Among the multitude of

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- Quincy Jones, 27-time GRAMMY® winner and the ambassador of The Recording Academy®'s 50th Celebration, received the GRAMMY Foundation®'s Leadership Award in recognition of a lifetime of commitment and dedication to social, cultural, economic and educational issues spanning the globe. Mr. Jones, along with a star-studded list of performers and attendees, received a "Green & Glitzy" gift bag created by Madison & Mulholland.

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