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MONTREUX, July 10 – A cast of musicians from Ibrahim Maalouf to Mos Def, Robert Glasper and Monty Alexander celebrated producer Quincy Jones at the # 39, an epic Montreux concert that ended just before dawn yesterday
Jones, who turned 85 in March, attended the House's tribute of Jazz at the 52nd Montreux Jazz Festival, where he was co-director in the 1990s.
Drummer Nate Smith and Kinfolk opened the three-hour show at 2am with Skip Step later joined by Richard Bona on bass
"There was no sound, everything is improvisation issue "free eve To be available on Qwest TV, the streaming video service of Jones, in September
the Lebanese Maalouf, wearing a green camouflage cap, was at the center to play a Bach solo prelude on his trumpet
pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez, a protégé of Jones, and Bona, wearing a white turban and black glasses, joined Maalouf for the track Ay, Mama Ines .
Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective thanked Jones, a 27-time Grammy Award winner, for "making us dance for generations" as the 21-year-old British Jorja Smith sang On My Mind
Another British newcomer and Jones prodigy, Jacob Collier, 23 – the old singer and pianist, played Human Nature Michael Jackson's bestseller Thriller produced by Jones in 1982. Four dancers accompanied the piece.
Monty Alexander, born in Jamaica, 74, joined Happy Birthday and played fellow Bob Marley's Redemption Song .
Brooklyn rappers Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, better known by his stage name Mos Def, meet up with Glasper on keyboards and Christian Scott on trumpet for hip hop jam.
Nik West played Kiss and other successes of the late Prince, another legend of Montreux, to complete the show. – Reuters
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