Video: Five minutes with … Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones was joined by Natasha Bedingfield and Virginia Williams for the 2012 Global Down Syndrome Foundation fundraising fashion show, titled "Be Beautiful Be Yourself 2012," at the Sheraton Hotel in Denver on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (Photo by Daniel Petty)

 

Quincy Jones was joined by Natasha Bedingfield and Virginia Williams for the 2012 Global Down Syndrome Foundation fundraising fashion show, titled “Be Beautiful Be Yourself 2012,” at the Sheraton Hotel in Denver on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (Photo by Daniel Petty)

 

In this ongoing web series, arts journalist John Moore interviews prominent visitors to Denver. Here, Quincy Jones, producer of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the best-selling album in history, and international spokesman for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, talks with Moore before Jones’ fourth annual gala in Denver, which raised $1.5 million on Oct. 13, 2012. Episode 3.

For more information, visit globaldownsyndrome.org

 

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Pam Grier

George Hamilton

 

By John Moore

Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com