The music superproducer knew that if you have to find your way to a kind of telepathy with an artist, operating as one mind, you can’t speed past the human element.

as they recount being recruited for recording sessions by Quincy Jones, the super-producer whose work was often as much a matter of casting as of capturing sounds on tape. Eddie Van Halen got the call one day in 1982, to add a pyrotechnic guitar solo to Mi ...

Quincy Jones was known to generations of fans due to a career that spanned from the radio to the big screen and the small.